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Entries from April 2010

Searching in vein …

April 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment

In the quest for ethical journalism, George Will, Fred Hiatt, and the Washington Post lost their way … a long time ago.

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Tags: Energy

Nobel Prize Winner’s Must Read … with a significant omission

April 10th, 2010 · 4 Comments

The New York Times Sunday magazine will feature a tour de force on climate economics by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. Entitled Building a Green Economy, a more appropriate title might be Climate Economics 101 and it should be required reading of every single Member of Congress and any journalist who writes on the […]

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy · Global Warming

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bond Programs

April 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Developing a lower total ownership cost (TOC) can often require paying a bit more money upfront. When it comes to energy efficiency and renewable energy (EE/RE), that upfront incremental cost is too frequently a barrier to achieving that more cost effective longer term solution. A bond program targeted specifically for EE/RE in government facilities can […]

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Tags: business practice · Energize America · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental

Ameliorating job losses could help lead to more sustainable life styles?

April 5th, 2010 · Comments Off on Ameliorating job losses could help lead to more sustainable life styles?

An unlikely duo have written an OPED advocating that the United States look to other nations’ practices of incentivizing work-sharing in private and public work forces as a cost-effective tool toward reducing unemployment. The duo, Kevin Hassett of AEI (one of the most conservative DC think tanks) and Dean Baker of the Center for Economic […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming