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Thought leader Gristmill's most persistent troll earns props	JMG	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The estimable George Monbiot channels Gristmill's most execrable troll, proving once again the old chestnut about stopped clocks being right twice a day.
Topics: population, economy (all these topics)

Jake Tapper is a hack Campaign reporter misrepresents Clinton, responds to correction with pissy snark	David Roberts	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
So Jake Tapper -- the very model of the modern gossip-obsessed campaign reporter -- goes to see a Bill Clinton speech and returns to write a blog post: "Bill: 'We Just Have to Slow Down Our Economy' to Fight Global Warming." Ha! Finally the dirty liberals admit it! They want to destroy the economy! The post ended up on Drudge, from whence it made the usual rounds of the dingbatosphere. Only Tapper was full of shit. As the Clinton campaign rushed to point ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, economy (all these topics)

An infrastructure problem Public works and investment must be part of the solution to global warming	Gar Lipow	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
As I've said before, certain types of goods -- public goods -- simply cannot be allocated efficiently through market mechanisms alone, even if we get prices right. Now this is not a 'government good/private sector bad' post. It is a suggestion, as was my original post on this subject, that a market system requires not only regulation but large-scale public investment, and that one of the places we are making way too few public investments is energy infrastructure. Again, ...
Topics: economy, climate, energy, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Bubbling up ... Could alternative energy companies drive the next big market bubble?	Mark Pawlosky	26 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In case you missed it, the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced a violent and exhausting 1,000-point swing the past week, down 450 points on Tuesday before trimming its losses and then tumbling 330 points on Wednesday before rebounding with a 299-point gain. It's not the only financial freefall of late. The housing market bubble was punctured last fall and has been leaking like the Hindenburg ever since. (And long before that, the economy experienced the ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, investing, renewable energy, tech (all these topics)

Memo to candidates Green-collar jobs mean standing up for people and the planet	Van Jones	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
For those of us who are a part of the movement for 'green-collar jobs,' last Sunday's Democratic presidential debate was a real watershed moment. Van Jones. Clinton, Edwards, and Obama were in the debate of their lives. And all three of them passionately championed the importance of creating good jobs in the clean energy sector. They presented 'green-collar jobs' as a way to simultaneously boost the economy and beat global warming. Their words ...
Topics: economy, elections, environmental justice, green jobs, politics, presidential race 08, Van Jones (all these topics)

Notable quotable What is a conservative?	Sean Casten	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
From Restructuring Today ($ub req'd), reporting on Markey's hearings on allocation vs. auction as a cap & trade methodology: Even conservative Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw believes a free allocation amounts to corporate welfare. Even conservative?
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, politics, quotables (all these topics)

'Green-collar' jobs The latest eco-buzzword	Joseph Romm	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Washington Post has a good article yesterday on the explosion in the use of the term 'green-collar' jobs. You will no doubt be hearing much more of this term since it is a favorite of Clinton and Edwards; Me and the Center for American Progress are on the bandwagon; and even the super trendspotting Tom Friedman has glommed onto it. No, it's not a perfect term. G-C jobs -- my effort to coin the ultimate eco-buzzword -- won't get you a green uniform and green po ...
Topics: business, economy, environmental justice, green jobs, Van Jones (all these topics)

Under pressure E.U. considers pollution charges on imports from U.S. and other climate scofflaws	Patrick Mazza	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
U.S. failure to enact limits on global warming emissions could cost American companies that export to the European Union. E.U. President Jose Manuel Barroso on Sunday said the European Commission is considering a charge on importers from nations without carbon limits. Companies from those countries may be required to buy carbon emissions allowances on exports into the E.U. This is intended to level the playing field with European companies who are already part ...
Topics: business, climate, economy, European Union, international politics, politics, state politics, United States (all these topics)

Leap year Climate legislation may be easier next year, but it won't be easy	David Roberts	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I argued the other day (and Chris Mooney argued here) that we'd be better off waiting until 2009 to push for climate legislation, since anything likely to be passed this year will be fatally weakened and the political terrain is likely to be much friendlier next year. I do not, however, want to give the impression that I think we're going to emerge from a dark tunnel into a field of ponies next year. Things will be marginally more propitious, but only marginally -- l ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

If you build it, they will come Growing solar industry depends on key tax credit that will expire this year	Adam Browning	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Advocates talk a lot about how renewable energy is not just good for the environment, but good for the economy as well. And here is some real-world proof: New Mexico, with strong leadership by Gov. Richardson, PRC Commissioners Lujan and Marks, and many others, has done more than most to establish the full suite of policies necessary to build a solar market. And the reward? Schott AG is investing $100 million in a new manufacturing facility outside of Albuquerque. It w ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, New Mexico, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Moving on out There are limits to the positive environmental change we can expect from high gas prices	Ryan Avent	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
You can scarcely pick up a paper or turn on the television these days without hearing the word recession. Leading economic indicators have wiggled in different directions over the past few months, but the general trend appears to be negative. The conventional wisdom points toward an economic downturn of some kind during 2008, and businesses in all sorts of consumer markets are bracing for the inevitable tightening of purse strings. A funny thing happened on the way tow ...
Topics: consumerism, economy, energy, gas prices, oil, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Honoring Dr. King in the economic stimulus bill A way for Congress to provide economic stimulus that is green and just	Billy Parish	21 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Forty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis, where he was assassinated, to help support the long struggle of the city's sanitation workers for decent jobs and dignity. He was also speaking out against the Vietnam War, organizing a Poor People's March on Washington, and crafting an Economic Bill of Rights, calling for massive government jobs programs to rebuild America's cities. In Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, the last boo ...
Topics: climate, economy, environmental justice (all these topics)

Can the environmental economy dodge a recession? As economic indicators trend downward, the clean-tech sector is still looking up	Mark Pawlosky	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill
As one key economic engine after another -- housing, finance, autos, retail -- sputters and stalls out, the fledgling eco-economy is purring right along, fueled in no small part by venture capital firms hungry for new opportunities in industries that promise outsized returns on their investments. In the first three quarters of 2007, VCs poured $2.6 billion into alternative energy and clean-tech firms, more money than they invested for the whole of 2006. The new y ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, investing, renewable energy, tech (all these topics)

Global gluttony Green manufacturing could save the economy	Jon Rynn	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Paul Krugman has been a hero of mine during the long, bleak reign of Bush the Younger, articulating arguments against Bush's philosophy and policies oh these many years. Krugman is one of the leading authorities on international trade, however, and so I was holding my breath, intellectually speaking, waiting to see what would happen when there were global economic troubles. I can exhale, because he's revealed his Panglossian side: our current economic troubles are the ...
Topics: economy (all these topics)

Soliciting the House of Saud Bush and big U.S. banks beg for help from the oil barons	Tom Philpott	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Bush has been doing some fast talking in the court of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, imploring His Majesty to boost oil production to so that gas prices for U.S. consumers can come down in time for the fall election. As part of his charm offensive, Bush has promised to bolster the dictatorship's arsenal with '900 sophisticated satellite-guided missiles.' He also rattled his tattered saber against Iran, Saudi Arabia's archenemy. While Bush and the King talk bombs, ...
Topics: economy, energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

The elusive green-collar job With all the upbeat talk about an environmental labor boom, is rhetoric running away from reality?	Adam Stein	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Someone help me puzzle this out: Proposition 1: A shift to renewable energy and energy efficiency will result in a boom in green-collar jobs -- good service-industry work that can't be outsourced. This proposition is attractive because it holds forth the promise of a grand alliance between greens and the labor movement. See, e.g., Tom Friedman and everyone who posts on Grist. Proposition 2: The optimism over green-collar jobs is a classic example of the make-work bi ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, energy efficiency, green jobs (all these topics)

Miracle grow Cargill's well-connected fertilizer unit wows Wall Street, dumps on Florida	Tom Philpott	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
As I wrote last week, the real winners in the ethanol boom aren't corn growers or even ethanol makers (though the latter will do just fine). Rather, it's the companies that make the inputs needed for growing vast quantities of corn. Photo: iStockphoto Monsanto, the world's dominant producer of genetically modified seed traits as well as the No. 1 herbicide maker, demonstrated that principle with its quarterly profit report last week. It harvested quarterly ...
Topics: agriculture, business, economy, industrial ag, politics (all these topics)

Investors see opportunity in efficiency and wind Energy stocks are looking attractive	Joseph Romm	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following essay is a guest post by Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- CNNmoney.com just released a summary outlook on the solar, wind, biofuel (mainly ethanol), and efficiency industry financial sectors. The two looking most optimistic are wind and efficiency, and thus both sectors are overflowing with opportunity. According to one investment portfolio manager, efficiency investments are reliable and essentially fu ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, energy efficiency, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Save a tree, hug a Bush White House to go online with 2009 federal budget	Kate Sheppard	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
We may never know whether tree-loving or penny-pinching is his primary motivation, but it appears George Bush may finally, actually, maybe be doing something good for the planet: Looking to save $1 million, 20 tons of paper, or close to 500 trees, the White House said today President Bush's 2009 Federal Budget will for the first time be posted online. The E-Budget will be available for downloading at the Office of Management and Budget Web site on Feb. 4. T ...
Topics: economy, politics, waste (all these topics)

The key ideas behind Sky Trust A look at the framing behind the last climate policy proposal	Guest author	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Joe Brewer, a research fellow at the Rockridge Institute. ----- Not long ago, a group of important environmental leaders published an essay on Gristmill -- "Creating an Earth Atmospheric Trust" -- about Peter Barnes' Sky Trust proposal. As it happens, Rockridge is about to release an analysis comparing Sky Trust with the Lieberman-Warner bill. We particularly evaluate what we call "cognitive policy," which i ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

The high costs of doing nothing, part I Spending on adaptation and mitigation now is an investment, spending later is a waste	Joseph Romm	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- A dirty little secret of climate change is that somebody wants us to pay much higher taxes and higher energy bills. But it's not the advocates of climate action. It's the other guys. Make no mistake: The costs of switching to clean energy and an energy-efficient economy are far less than the costs of doing nothing. A study release ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, economy, severe weather (all these topics)

WCI and transportation fuels Why the West should worry about transportation emissions	Eric de Place	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Well, Clark and I are traveling to Portland for a batch of meetings related to the Western Climate Initiative. On the off chance that you'll miss us, I thought I'd share some of what we're working on with WCI. Our biggest obsession right now is transportation fuels. Namely, we believe it's critically important that transportation fuels be covered by an 'upstream' cap in the first phase of the program. Here's more: Why should the WCI cover transportation fuel ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, economy, energy, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

Gnashing my teeth over globalization Can economic democracy make the global economy more sustainable?	Jon Rynn	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Worried about more coal plants, carbon emissions from transportation, and a crumbling infrastructure? Evidence provided by several recent reports point to one of the least explored causes of these problems: globalization, that is, the transfer of manufacturing capacity from developed to developing countries, particularly China. The mechanisms differ. The U.S. and Europe, which could manufacture using environmentally benign techniques, instead use old, polluting techn ...
Topics: air pollution, business, China, climate, coal, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, United States (all these topics)

Moving money in the economy More on climate policy in the Dem debate	David Roberts	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Responding to some of the comments on Dot Earth: Obama is right that a cap-and-trade program with 100 percent auctioned permits would be the functional equivalent of a carbon tax. Yes that does, in Richardson's rather daft phrase, "take money out of the economy," in the sense that any tax does. Happily, the other half of Obama's plan is to plow the money right back into the economy, reducing the financial hit on the working class, supporting renewable energ ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Bad combo Cheap coal and $100 oil	Tom Philpott	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Amid vague talk of how $100/barrel oil might represent a kind of sea change, inspiring corporations and individuals to lower their carbon footprints, the smart money is betting on another direction: the burning of more coal.That's a harrowing trend. As NASA climatologist James Hanson recently put it:Coal will determine whether we continue to increase climate change or slow the human impact ... Increased fossil fuel CO2 in the air today, compared to the pre-industrial at ...
Topics: climate, coal, economy, energy, oil (all these topics)

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