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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

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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · analysis · economics · environmental · environmental economics · global warming deniers

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