In addition to the class reading on cap & trade, here's how the picture looked last year:
America and climate change: Cap and trade, with handouts and loopholes | The Economist
Since cap-and-trade appears to be dead for the moment, a new policy of "renewable energy standards" may be put in place (requiring a certain percentage of energy generated to be from renewable resources). Here's one piece arguing that cap-and-trade would be more efficient and a follow-up piece from the Economist on the creation of green jobs.
Another method of controlling carbon that just began is granting the EPA the power to regulate climate-altering gases from factories and power plants: here's the lowdown from the NY Times and from the Washington Post.
Here's an interesting piece on the economics tree planting and harvesting -- deemed "tree-conomics" -- that contains a good summary of the difference between public and private goods, externalities, and collective action (which it argues is necessary to reduce global warming).
And here's an interesting story about a Swedish town that powers itself with only "a motley assortment of ingredients like potato peels, manure, used cooking oil, stale cookies and pig intestines."
At the intersection of pop culture and environmental policy, a liberal blogs were abuzz about a Fox News request for stories refuting global warming las week
America and climate change: Cap and trade, with handouts and loopholes | The Economist
Since cap-and-trade appears to be dead for the moment, a new policy of "renewable energy standards" may be put in place (requiring a certain percentage of energy generated to be from renewable resources). Here's one piece arguing that cap-and-trade would be more efficient and a follow-up piece from the Economist on the creation of green jobs.
Another method of controlling carbon that just began is granting the EPA the power to regulate climate-altering gases from factories and power plants: here's the lowdown from the NY Times and from the Washington Post.
Here's an interesting piece on the economics tree planting and harvesting -- deemed "tree-conomics" -- that contains a good summary of the difference between public and private goods, externalities, and collective action (which it argues is necessary to reduce global warming).
And here's an interesting story about a Swedish town that powers itself with only "a motley assortment of ingredients like potato peels, manure, used cooking oil, stale cookies and pig intestines."
At the intersection of pop culture and environmental policy, a liberal blogs were abuzz about a Fox News request for stories refuting global warming las week
On a different note, here's one piece about current politics that's well worth reading. The piece itself is a somewhat interesting discussion of the electoral successes and failures over the past 20 years, but he includes a number of utterly fascinating links and graphs: Are Democrats Better Off Than They Were 25 Years Ago?
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