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Strike a blow against palm oil madness Rainforest Action Network's new pledge petition	Joseph Romm	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- In Hell and High Water, Joe lays out his proposals for how to slow down our greenhouse-gas emissions in the first half of this century, giving us the breathing space to eliminate them in the second half. His program primarily consists of deploying existing technology, and it is quite doable, should we find the political will. His last proposal, however, is to 'stop all tropical deforestati ...
Topics: Big Ag, business, celebrity, deforestation, grassroots activism, rainforests (all these topics)

Keep on Truckin' Truckers slowing down to increase fuel efficiency		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:06 PM on 24 Mar 2008 You think filling up your car is a pain in the wallet? Try being a trucker. Most big rigs get less than 10 miles to the gallon, and diesel fuel is hovering near $4 a gallon in many places. "For every one-penny increase in the price of diesel, it costs our industry $391 million," says a trucking industry spokesperson. In response, many trucking companies are instructing their drivers to ...
Topics: business, fuel efficiency, news (all these topics)

Give it away, now Interesting research findings on wealth and happiness	Clark Williams-Derry	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Photo: sean-b via Flickr University of British Columbia researchers have put a price tag on happiness. The good news: It's available for the low price of $5. The better news: You can't spend that money on yourself. Instead, to get the most smiles per dollar, you have to spend money on other people. Dr. Elizabeth Dunn at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and colleagues found that [experimental subjects] report significantly greater h ...
Topics: business, consumerism, scientific research (all these topics)

'Ahead of the Curve: Business Responds to Climate Change'	David Roberts	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Here is an absolutely stellar video from Sea Studios productions called "Ahead of the Curve: Business Responds to Climate Change": (via Steve Clemons)
Topics: energy, business, politics, climate (all these topics)

Only You Can Prevent Climate Change Gore group will launch climate marketing campaign		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:42 AM on 24 Mar 2008 Photo: World Resources Institute Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend more than $300 million over the next three years on a marketing campaign aimed at getting Americans to address climate change. With ads developed by the Martin Agency (the folks behind the Geico cavemen and chatty gecko) and partnerships with grassroots groups, the campaign focus will be o ...
Topics: advertising, Al Gore, business, climate, climate change mitigation, grassroots activism, green products, news, United States (all these topics)

Meat wagon: pork superbug! Antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrives in CAFO pork, and Wall Street gobbles up Big Meat shares	Tom Philpott	23 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry. Back in December, Michael Pollan wrote a important article about the antibiotic resistant bacteria MSRA, which Pollan decsribed like this: ... the very scary antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus bacteria that is now killing more Americans each year than AIDS -- 100,000 infections leading to 19,000 deaths in 2005, according to estimates in The Journal of the American Medical Associatio ...
Topics: business, food, health, industrial ag, jackassery (all these topics)

Thought of the day: Don't call 100 percent auctioning cap-and-trade If 100 percent auctioning is done right, the trade component will be trivial	Gar Lipow	22 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If all permits are auctioned, where is the need for large-scale trading? With modern electronics, there is no reason most permits can't be bought directly by those using them. Yes, there will be some trading: people will buy too many and need to resell, or engage in hedging, or use a broker for convenience's sake. But if the auctioning process is not made a major pain, these should be trivial in scale compared to direct purchase. Our short name should not emphasize the ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate (all these topics)

Tell us something we don't know The Kansas City Star: New coal plants are expensive	Sean Casten	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The Kansas City Star reports: Electric bills are poised to soar for customers of utilities building coal-fired power plants. Coal-based electric utility executive responds: We're moving forward regardless of what you namby-pamby, cheap-energy-loving hippies think.* Michael Dworkin then raises the obvious question: You've got to ask: 'Do you think we have reached a point where it economically doesn't make sense?' It will be interesting to see how this af ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, Kansas (all these topics)

Biodiesel in the dumps To survive, producers wanly import feedstock and export fuel	Tom Philpott	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
At this point, serious greens still promoting biofuels are in a tight corner. Global grain stocks are at all-time lows and prices at all-time highs. That means heavy incentives to clear new land to plant crops -- in precious rainforest regions in South America and Southeast Asia that sustain indigenous peoples and store titanic amounts of carbon. These lands are also concentrated centers of biodiversity. Sacrificing them for car fuel is a heinous crime. Anyone who ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, business, energy, international politics (all these topics)

CEO charged with seeking profit	David Roberts	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In the course of an off-the-shelf rant about Wal-Mart, Z.P. Heller says this: While Wal-Mart may be working to reduce their carbon footprint, it became clear that to Scott, reducing waste means making money, not fulfilling an environmental promise. The mind boggles.
Topics: Wal-Mart, business (all these topics)

Good Jobs, Green Jobs: Part 3 One last word from the National Green Jobs Conference	Kevin Doyle	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I'll soon be tackling new eco-job and career issues, but I've got one last piece of business related to my time at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference last week. I've recounted what happened and who was there, and explained how we might define green jobs. Now, I'll address one final question from Grist readers: 'What's the main barrier to the growth of green jobs?' In a word: politics. In the dim past (1970-1999), it was generally agreed that government action was ne ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, grassroots activism, green jobs, politics (all these topics)

Latest hot commodity: coal As coal prices rise, U.S. coal exports boom	Tom Philpott	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Environmentalists have helped scuttle more than 50 coal-fired power plants in the U.S. in the past year. That's fantastic. But the movement to stop coal won't help the climate unless it can globalize; for the climate, coal burned in China traps just as much warmth as coal burned in Texas. Nor will stopping more U.S. coal-fired power plants help save communities in the mining zones of Appalachia from environmental and economic devastation. That's because U.S. coal ...
Topics: business, coal, consumerism, energy, international politics (all these topics)

ECO:nomics: More evidence of Exxon's evil genius	David Roberts	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
ExxonMobil sent one representative to the conference: a beautiful, smart, well-spoken, wryly funny young woman with long blond hair. Next thing I know, there I am talking to her over cocktails, thinking, yeah, Exxon does spend a lot on energy R&D! They really are leading the search for alternatives to oil! Gol she's purty! Damn you Exxon!
Topics: Big Oil, business (all these topics)

Meyerson on the need for a new New Deal	David Roberts	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Harold Meyerson has a lucid, insightful column in the Washington Post today about the recent financial mess: The key lesson Americans need to learn from today's troubles is how to distinguish faux prosperity from the genuine article. Over the past hundred years, we've experienced both. In the three decades after World War II we had the real thing. Led by our manufacturing sector, productivity increased at a rapid clip and median family incomes rose at a virtually iden ...
Topics: business (all these topics)

'Paign, Management Industry launches campaign against Lieberman-Warner climate bill		20 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:05 AM on 20 Mar 2008 Energy industry and business trade groups have launched a concerted campaign against the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. The bill, which would establish a cap-and-trade system to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, is much less stringent than some other climate bills in Congress, but Lieberman-Warner is so far the only one to pass out of committee; it's scheduled for a Senate vo ...
Topics: business, climate, dumbassery , legislation, news (all these topics)

Good Jobs, Green Jobs: Part 2 More from the National Green Jobs Conference	Kevin Doyle	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Welcome back to the Grist review of the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference last week in Pittsburgh. In my last post, I gave it two thumbs up and noted that Van Jones was particularly outstanding in one of the lead roles. Let's continue this conversation with a particularly hot topic these days. Based on your questions and the response to my previous column on defining the green job economy, it's clear that everyone's wondering how the rapidly growing green jobs movement ...
Topics: business, green jobs (all these topics)

Dealing with gas prices involves healing the economy On oil and the dollar, Bush and McCain acknowledge their own cluelessness	Brad Johnson	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This post was originally published at the just-launched Think Progress Wonk Room, the new public policy rapid-response blog of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Brad Johnson, the climate specialist for the Wonk Room, was a writer for Hill Heat. Skyrocketing gas prices are crippling the budgets of Americans, as Bush has newly discovered. But he doesn't have a solution. Nor does Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Bush's every response to energy problems is to drill f ...
Topics: politics, business, oil, energy (all these topics)

All the colors of the wind Wind farms get sponsored	Ashley Braun	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
It seems that if you have enough money, you can slap your name on any ol' thing: stadiums, theaters, sporting events, and now wind farms. When John Deere Wind Energy opens its eight-turbine, 10 megawatt wind farm in Texas this May, it will be setting a precedent by allowing Steelcase, a furniture company out of Grand Rapids, Mich., to purchase the rights to name its little windmills. From The New York Times: [Steelcase] has committed to buying the farm's entire ...
Topics: wind power, energy, business (all these topics)

Good Jobs, Green Jobs: Part 1 What happened and who was there?	Kevin Doyle	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Well, I'm back home from the Good Jobs, Green Jobs national conference last week in Pittsburgh, and I've digested the speeches, the workshops, the press conferences, and the two major reports released at the event: 'Green Collar Jobs in America's Cities [PDF]: Building Pathways out of Poverty and Careers in the Clean Energy Economy' and 'Greener Pathways [PDF]: Jobs and Workforce Development in the Clean Energy Economy.' I'm tempted to say, 'Read these fantastic rep ...
Topics: business, green jobs, Van Jones (all these topics)

Letting what market figure out the best way? A cap-and-trade system will not by itself eliminate dirty energy's unfair advantages	David Roberts	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
On p. 57 of Fred Krupp's (generally excellent) new book Earth: The Sequel, it says this: In essence, renewable standards, subsidies, and other mandates assume that the government has all the answers, rather than letting the market figure out the best way to produce clean energy at the lowest cost. I'm never satisfied with how people talk about this stuff. On one side you have this sort hankie-waving fear of besmirching the virtue of the virgin market. On the oth ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, coal, energy (all these topics)

ECO:nomics: The decline and fall of the ideologues Delayers and doomsayers receive a chilly reception from pragmatic business leaders	David Roberts	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
There was a lot going on at the conference, but one underlying dynamic is particularly notable. I mentioned it in my post on Jeff Immelt's panel, but it's worth discussing at more length. The conservative ideologues -- the WSJ editorial board, invited guests Fred Smith and Myron Ebell of CEI, Steve Milloy of JunkScience -- thought they were going to put the CEOs' feet to the fire. Force business community to face some hard truths. Expose carbon policy as an econom ...
Topics: business, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Ecosystem for sale On the oddity of privatizing nature	Erik Hoffner	18 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Given the uncertainty accruing to traditional investments in today's economy, here's a trend to consider: the monetizing of ecosystem services. One of the first public discussions of this, the Biodiversity & Ecosystem Finance Summit taking place in New York this weekend, aims to answer this question: how can financiers and corporations take a lead in biodiversity and ecosystem conservation? (I can think of a few ways, yes.) Welcome to the developing area of 'biod ...
Topics: biodiversity, business, Virginia, wetlands (all these topics)

Whatever Floats Your Boat Sail-powered cargo ship returns home, wave-powered vessel sets off		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:20 PM on 17 Mar 2008 A cargo ship partially powered by a gigantic kite-like sail has completed a 12,000-mile roundtrip voyage across the Atlantic. Captain Lutz Heldt, who says the ship used around 20 percent less fuel thanks to kite power, says, "We can once again actually 'sail' with cargo ships, thus opening a new chapter in the history of commercial shipping." Not to be outdone, ...
Topics: business, energy, innovation, news, wind power (all these topics)

RFK on GDP	David Roberts	17 Mar 2008	Gristmill
As I read all the fearful projections of decline in GDP if we act to address global warming, I am reminded of the words of Robert F. Kennedy on GDP: 'it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.' Watch:
Topics: business, politics (all these topics)

U.S. economy: A few thoughts for environmentalists	Jason D Scorse	17 Mar 2008	Gristmill
As the week's news can attest, the current financial system is in pretty bad shape; we're not at complete meltdown, but it's pretty scary. Here are a few thoughts for the environmental community (aside from the general concern we should all share as citizens): When 'bread and butter' economic concerns rise, the environment as an issue tends to recede (even more than usual). This makes it important to try to link environmental policies directly to economic streng ...
Topics: business (all these topics)

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