<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Credit crunch slows clean energy development]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Jon Rynn http://www.grist.org/article/financial-meltdown-still-bad-for-the-environment/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:25:56 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/financial-meltdown-still-bad-for-the-environment/1 But wouldn't a bottom-up approach

help out home-based alternatives -- like retrofitting, geothermal heat pumps, solar photovoltaic -- if, say, bankruptcy courts could renegotiate mortgages, thus focusing on bailing out home (and commercial building, I suppose) owners, as the more liberal members of Congress propose, so the building owners might then have more capital to put into improvements?

]]> But wouldn't a bottom-up approach

help out home-based alternatives -- like retrofitting, geothermal heat pumps, solar photovoltaic -- if, say, bankruptcy courts could renegotiate mortgages, thus focusing on bailing out home (and commercial building, I suppose) owners, as the more liberal members of Congress propose, so the building owners might then have more capital to put into improvements?

]]> Comment #2 by racc http://www.grist.org/article/financial-meltdown-still-bad-for-the-environment/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:35:08 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/financial-meltdown-still-bad-for-the-environment/2 Could be Good Overall Though

It is better time for energy efficiency and conservation though. Also a great time for government investment in rail and mass transit.

It will also slow down development of non-sustainable energy as well.

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It is better time for energy efficiency and conservation though. Also a great time for government investment in rail and mass transit.

It will also slow down development of non-sustainable energy as well.

]]> Comment #3 by racc http://www.grist.org/article/financial-meltdown-still-bad-for-the-environment/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:35:09 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/financial-meltdown-still-bad-for-the-environment/3 Could be Good Overall Though

It is better time for energy efficiency and conservation though. Also a great time for government investment in rail and mass transit.

It will also slow down development of non-sustainable energy as well.

]]> Could be Good Overall Though

It is better time for energy efficiency and conservation though. Also a great time for government investment in rail and mass transit.

It will also slow down development of non-sustainable energy as well.

]]> Comment #4 by MAD MAC http://www.grist.org/article/financial-meltdown-still-bad-for-the-environment/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:54:51 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/financial-meltdown-still-bad-for-the-environment/4 Poverty is never a good thing.

Poor countries may not pollute more per capita, but they also are far less innovative. The world needs the energy and dynamism of the wealthy parts of the world to improve the environment. No question about it.

Victory in Pattani

]]> Poverty is never a good thing.

Poor countries may not pollute more per capita, but they also are far less innovative. The world needs the energy and dynamism of the wealthy parts of the world to improve the environment. No question about it.

Victory in Pattani

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