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Finding the Key to Subsidizing Solar Power
Photo via International Rivers
The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined--in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today.
Major Toyota events leading up to runaway Prius
AP - • March 8 — Driver James Sikes speeds along a San Diego County freeway in a 2008 Toyota Prius for 20 minutes, reaching 94 miles per hour, before a Highway Patrol officer helps slow down the car. Toyota, the California Highway Patrol and federal safety officials say they will investigate.
A Cleveland mall turns lost retail space into farm stand
by Fast Company
Photo: Fast CompanyShopping malls, those bastions of American consumerism, have not been immune to the recent economic downturn. In a recent piece by our own Greg Lindsay, we looked at the impending decline of the
mall, which is part of the “single-use environment” category of real
estate development that will slowly disappear over the next thirty
years, according to one developer. But what will replace these
environments, and more importantly, what will happen to the massive
Outside science academies to review warming panel
AP - The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports.
Grist’s rejected punny headlines from the week of 1 March 2010
by Grist
If you’ve ever wondered how Grist’s famous (and mysterious) pun machine works, wonder a little less. We present you with a glimpse into its inner workings: a list of rejected punny headlines scooped up from the last week’s digital cutting room floor. Please, enjoy the witticisms and groan at the miss-icisms.
Story: James Cameron: I’m the greenest director of all time!
Who Will Lead The U.N. On Climate Change?
photo via Climate Changer
A few weeks ago, UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer stepped down from his post as the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat.
Why pricing emissions is the least important policy
by Gar Lipow
Last week, I documented that the public supports trains and auto efficiency standards and renewable requirements, along with other policies sometimes slandered as “command & control” over emissions pricing. This week: some historical perspective on why the public is right, and mainstream environmental groups are wrong.
Historically U.S. infrastructure, the basis on which this nation developed, was never some magical response to supply and demand.
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