In seeking to legislate paths to achieve a “clean economy”, one thing legislators do not lack are substantive and thoughtful roadmaps to look at and leverage. As per a post the other day, For decades, people have been working on and considering how to get Virginia on the path toward a clean energy future. And, […]
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A Virginia Clean Economy Future: Resources to mine: Solutions Project
December 30th, 2019 · Comments Off on A Virginia Clean Economy Future: Resources to mine: Solutions Project
Tags: dominion virginia power · environmental · environmental economics · Offshore wind · solar · virginia · wind power
Virginia’s Clean Economy Act: Are the analytical underpinnings fatally (pessimistically) flawed
December 22nd, 2019 · Comments Off on Virginia’s Clean Economy Act: Are the analytical underpinnings fatally (pessimistically) flawed
Last week, a broad environmental coalition and multiple Virginia state legislators coalesced for the announcement of the “Virginia Clean Economy Act” (VCEA). When one sees organizations like CCAN and its climate hawk founder/director Mike Tidwell pushing hard to build momentum for the VCEA, the presumption has to be that this is serious action that would […]
Tags: ActOnClimate · analysis · clean emissions · Cost-Benefit Analysis · dominion virginia power · electricity · Electrification · environmental · environmental economics · renewable electricity standards · virginia
RE less than C a growing reality …
June 25th, 2018 · Comments Off on RE less than C a growing reality …
A decade ago, Google came out with its RE<C initiative. That formula: Renewable Energy less than Coal In short, an announced plan to invest to spark innovation and deployment of clean energy systems that would be less expensive than coal in traditional economic terms — without requiring inclusion of the substantial externality costs from exploiting […]
Tags: coal · economics · Energy · environmental economics · solar · wind power
Minimalist plastic bag fee shockingly does not cause panic on High Street
October 5th, 2015 · Comments Off on Minimalist plastic bag fee shockingly does not cause panic on High Street
Across societies, relatively small policy changes have led to real change. Getting people off a lazy addiction to plastic bags (and thus reducing plastic impacts — from use of fossil fuels to produce them, to reduced litter on the streets, to reduced impacts on wildlife) is one example. Over a decade ago, the institution of […]
Tags: environmental · environmental economics
Reclaiming Growth
January 12th, 2013 · 1 Comment
This guest post comes from James Wells. When you think of “?growth”,? what comes to mind? Progress? Improvement? Prosperity? Is the concept of growth a pleasing one?For many people, it is all those things. But this pleasing image might pose a very serious problem, a mental and emotional obstacle to even considering whether traditional economic […]
Tags: economics · environmental · environmental economics
Climate Sanity and the necessity of Fully-Burdened Cost and Benefit Analysis
August 19th, 2012 · 20 Comments
Analysis should enable more informed decision-making. Regrettably, economic and fiscal analyses too often occur in a stove-piped fashion that provides only limited perspectives as to real costs and benefits. Energy and environmental analysis, in particular, suffer from this problem. This has been true from the individual household to business to national policy level discussions where, almost, […]
Tags: analysis · climate change · environmental economics · Global Warming
Master Meters: Who pays? And, why pay?
June 1st, 2012 · Comments Off on Master Meters: Who pays? And, why pay?
Guest Blogger J. Siegel has been doing a series of pieces on this blog (list below … latest here) on her work within her own master-metered condominium and, beyond that, on working to develop a community of master-metered communities to share lessons and seek leverage for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs to help them […]
Tags: economics · electricity · Energy · energy smart · environmental · environmental economics · master metering
On refusing to be rounded out of existence
May 22nd, 2012 · Comments Off on On refusing to be rounded out of existence
This guest post comes from James Wells who eloquently and passionately is outlining the detrimental implications of short-term thinking embrace of coal exports. The phrase, arriving in the middle of a deeply technical presentation, stood out for everything it said in just one sentence. “They’re just going to be rounded out of existence, because they […]
Tags: China · coal · Energy · environmental · environmental economics · environmental justice
Aloha to Sustainability
April 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment
This guest post from James Wells provides thinking about islanding and sustainability sparked by a trip to ‘the’ Islands. On the way to catch up with my family on the island, I met Kai, who was the last of the siblings gathering for the imminent end of their father’s voyage. Although for the most difficult […]
Tags: environmental · environmental economics · Global Warming · guest post
Regulatory Red Herrings: Twists and Turns in Job Impacts
April 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off on Regulatory Red Herrings: Twists and Turns in Job Impacts
We’ve seen this clearly with Keystone XL pipeline. Proponents are letting us (all of U.S.) know that it will create 6500 … or 25,000 … or 100,000 … or over 1,000,000 jobs. In some ways, ‘just believe me’ type claims. The only independent analysis, to date, suggests that Keystone XL pipeline construction — even without […]
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