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Cap and Trade Derails Climate Ethics, the Motive Force of Carbon Mitigation - Part 3
In the first part of this piece, I discussed how the fractured structure of cap and trade is either non-functional or marginally functional. In the second part, I pointed out how cap and trade, due t… more →
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Cap and Trade Derails Climate Ethics, the Motive Force of Carbon Mitigation - Part 3
Michael Hoexter wrote 3 weeks ago: In the first part of this piece, I discussed how the fractured structure of cap and trade is either … more →
Cap and Trade Derails Climate Ethics, the Motive Force of Carbon Mitigation - Part 2
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Michael Hoexter wrote 3 weeks ago: In the first part of this post, I outlined how the components of cap and trade don’t work toge … more →
Cap and Trade: The Tangled Web... A More Effective Alternative - Part 3
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Michael Hoexter wrote 1 month ago: In Part 1, I offered a critique of cap and trade in its existing implementations and located key fl … more →
Cap and Trade: A Tangled Web of Good Intentions and Bad Policy - Part 2
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Michael Hoexter wrote 1 month ago: In the first part of this post I identified 10 features of cap and trade, the favored climate policy … more →
Are We Free to Pollute the Atmosphere? Climate Change, Wealth and Liberty - Part 2
Michael Hoexter wrote 7 months ago: In Part 1 of this post I summarized US and worldwide efforts to create legal standards to limit GHG … more →
Are We Free to Pollute the Atmosphere? Climate Change, Wealth and Liberty - Part 1
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Michael Hoexter wrote 7 months ago: In Part 1 of this two part post I look at climate change regulation from the perspective of politic … more →
RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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mihirgajrawala wrote 7 months ago: ~ When you come to the edge of a cliff, the solution is not to run faster, We have to step back ~ Th … more →
Carbon Pricing is Just One Piece of the Puzzle: Towards a Comprehensive Climate and Energy Policy - Part 5 (of 5)
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Michael Hoexter wrote 9 months ago: In the first three parts of this long piece (one, two, three), I outlined how our economic common se … more →
Carbon Pricing is Just One Piece of the Puzzle: Towards a Comprehensive Climate and Energy Policy - Part 4
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Michael Hoexter wrote 9 months ago: Why Not Bring Positive Externalities Into Market Pricing? Evidence of the power of renewable energy … more →
Carbon Pricing is Just One Piece of the Puzzle: Towards a Comprehensive Climate and Energy Policy - Part 2
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Michael Hoexter wrote 10 months ago: In Part 1, I called attention to the rapid shift in general economic policy in the last 6 months. … more →
Carbon Pricing (Cap and Trade/Carbon Tax) is Just One Piece of the Puzzle: Towards a Comprehensive Climate and Energy Policy - Part 1
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Michael Hoexter wrote 10 months ago: Sir Nicholas Stern was commissioned by the British Government to assess the economic impacts of clim … more →
Decision Space for a Post-Carbon World: Towards Better Technology Choices
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Michael Hoexter wrote 11 months ago: The decisions and tastes of Robert Moses influence the way of life of metropolitan New Yorkers to th … more →
"Picking Winners": Policy Blunder or Necessity?
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Michael Hoexter wrote 12 months ago: Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Air Resources Board once publicly supported building a Hy … more →
Putting Financial Muscle behind the Green New Deal: How to Realize Repower America’s 100% Clean Energy Goal
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Michael Hoexter wrote 1 year ago: The We Campaign's TV ads have helped put the idea that 100% clean energy is a possibility on the … more →
Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation in the Renewable Electron Economy: Summary for Policymakers Part 4
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Michael Hoexter wrote 1 year ago: In the first three parts of this series for policymakers I have reviewed how we can fairly rapidly t … more →
Building the Renewable Electron Economy - Economic and Policy Drivers for a New Clean Energy Infrastructure: Summary for Policymakers Part 3
Michael Hoexter wrote 1 year ago: In the first two parts of this summary series for policy makers, we have established that electric d … more →
The Renewable Electron Economy, Supplying Clean Energy - Summary for Policymakers Part 2
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Michael Hoexter wrote 1 year ago: In the first part of this mini-series for policymakers, I addressed the marquee issue in energy curr … more →
The (Renewable) Electron Economy as the Solution to the Oil Crisis: A Summary for Policymakers - I
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Michael Hoexter wrote 1 year ago: Lines formed at gas stations during the 1973 OPEC oil embargo. In the near future, rationing is more … more →
The Renewable Electron Economy XVII: On-Grid and Grid-Optional Transport, ”Parachute” for a $140/Barrel Oil Society
Michael Hoexter wrote 1 year ago: Currently, vehicle-makers, researchers, investors and green technology analysts are involved in a hi … more →
