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Caritas in Veritate, Chapter Four2 comments

nick wrote 1 week ago: Note: This post is the fourth in a series of posts on Pope Benedict XVI’s “Caritas in Ve … more →

Tags: catholic social tradition, Ecological Economics

Dr. rer. pol. h.c. Michael Hoel

Dirk wrote 1 week ago: Michael Hoel received the above honorary degree from our faculty on June 23rd 2009 (free letter soup … more →

Tags: Ecology, Michael Hoel, Oldenburg

GDP and Its Shortfalls

nick wrote 2 weeks ago: Nate Silver (of election projection fame) has an excellent post demonstrating the shortsightedness o … more →

Tags: development, Economic Crisis

Immigration Reform: An Environmental Perspective45 comments

Steven Mather wrote 1 month ago: Immigration, as a policy issue, is politically explosive. It is politically explosive because it ne … more →

Tags: Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, Economic Development, Foreign Policy, Going forward, Human Rights, Politics, Carrying capacity, collapse, democracy

Italy interested to invest in Nuclear

envdevmalaysia wrote 1 month ago: (Bernama) — Italy is interested to invest in the Asian market, including Malaysia. Wisma Putra … more →

Going green can save you some green

steveacker wrote 1 month ago: The first step to take advantage of being environmentally conscious is to switch your lights to comp … more →

Tags: CF, ČFL, Compact Fluorescents, environmentally conscious, Green

Sustainability reporting in ‘poor shape’

envdevmalaysia wrote 1 month ago: The Star — Sustainability reporting in the country is in “poor shape”, says Environmental Qual … more →

Tropical forests worth more standing1 comment

CJAB wrote 1 month ago: © R. Butler Keeping with the oil palm theme… A paper just published online in Conservation Let … more →

Tags: Agriculture, Asia, Biodiversity, Borneo, Carbon, Carbon Trading, climate change, Conservation, déforestation

r.m. wrote 1 month ago: Who owns the forests? “The Congo Basin countries, home to the world’s second largest tro … more →

Tags: environment / green, Economy, Amazon, Congo, tropical forest, community ownership

God's Earth Heats Up Against Tyranny: Climate Change to Kill Billions this Century

writergooddoer wrote 1 month ago: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/25/global-warming-of-7c-could-kill-billions-this-century/   MIT: … more →

Tags: Islam, Pakistan, Politics, News, Political Economy, Science, Government, Allah, God

Whitehead: It's Time to Get Moving

kvams wrote 2 months ago: John Whitehead of Environmental Economics starts to grow tired of the ongoing debate in the U.S. ove … more →

Tags: Environmental Issues, climate change, John Whitehead

Celebrities actually doing something positive for conservation?2 comments

CJAB wrote 2 months ago: When I first saw this on the BBC I thought to myself, “Well, just another toothless celebrity … more →

Tags: Africa, Amazon, Asia, Biodiversity, Celebrity, Conservation, corruption, déforestation, ecosystem services

Putting a Price on Carbon: Is It Needed? Is It Enough?1 comment

Dan Farber wrote 2 months ago: In Sunday’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman made the case for putting a price tag on carbon: P … more →

Tags: Federal Climate Policy, regulatory policy, cap and trade, climate change, Carbon Tax, Command-And-Control Regulation

A barrier to really measuring willingness to pay.

greenguerrilla wrote 2 months ago: The vast majority of people don’t realize the environmental impact of their purchases or actio … more →

Tags: Ecological Economics

Ecological Economics and the Crisis

nick wrote 3 months ago: Saturday’s NYT Op-Ed page (h/t Mark Thoma) brought an interesting article about an intellectua … more →

Tags: financial crisis, economics as science, Ecological Economics

Band-aid approach to fix ecological and economic ruin3 comments

CJAB wrote 3 months ago: An excellent article by Andrew Simms (policy director of the New Economics Foundation) posted by the … more →

Tags: Biodiversity, climate change, Climate Shift, Conservation, corruption, ecosystem services, Environmental Policy, extinction, Investment

The Evolution of a Sustainable Mindset

Jess Vogt wrote 3 months ago: Trips to Northern Wisconsin to fish and swim at my grandparents cottage, digging in the garden in my … more →

Tags: Books, Sustainable Development, thoughts and musings, Brundtland report, cradle to cradle, Education, Fox Cities community, last child in the woods, Sustainable Future

G20, the poor, the land1 comment

r.m. wrote 3 months ago: So, the leaders of the powerful nations have met at this G20 summit. People protested – and we … more →

Tags: actions, struggles, environment / green, united states, agriculture/farmers, Economy, climate change, Globalization, Farmers, Food

The Cost of Standby Computers

kvams wrote 3 months ago: On Freakonomics, Daniel Hamermesh rebuff a claim that standby computers in the U.S. waste $2.8 billi … more →

Tags: Economics, Environmental Issues, John Whitehead, freakonomics, daniel hamermesh, Computer, Energy


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