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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Efficiency and market failure A new report says regulations are needed	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill
A while back I mentioned a McKinsey Global Institute report showing that efficiency is the fastest, cheapest way to cut global GHG emissions. Now McKinsey's got a new report out, making a heretical claim: even though homeowners could vastly improve energy efficiency and save tons of money over the long term with current technologies, there won't be widespread adoption of those technologies without market intervention -- i.e., stronger regulations. Whatever will the ma ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Six months to a trimmer footprint How to reduce your household energy consumption, easy-like	Charles Komanoff	01 May 2007	Gristmill
Last Sunday's New York Times honed in on the dubious practice of Americans buying carbon offsets to brand themselves carbon-neutral. Andy Revkin, the paper's global-warming reporter, quoted me saying, "There isn't a single American household above the poverty line that couldn't cut their CO2 at least 25 percent in six months through a straightforward series of fairly simple and terrifically cost-effective measures." My claim has hit a nerve. Despi ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)