Tag: feebate
member name: Sam Carana
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May 31, 2008 02:26 AM EDT --
On June 25, 2003, the United States and the European Union agreed to collaborate on the acceleration of the development of the Hydrogen Economy. Billions of dollars were earmarked for development of . . .
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January 02, 2008 07:04 AM EST --
How about taxing financial transactions, instead of taxing income, products, inheritances, capital gains or whatever else is being taxed noways? Let's face it, income tax from companies and individuals . . .
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March 18, 2008 10:09 PM EDT --
Virtually all countries have ratified the Kyoto protocol. Yet, carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions are rising even faster than the worst-case estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . . .
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October 06, 2008 03:56 AM EDT --
Last month, Hawaii received $1.7 million in grants to modernize its electric grids to accommodate an influx of renewable energy, with an eye toward electric cars.
Why Hawaii? The geothermal power . . .
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June 09, 2008 05:46 AM EDT --
The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act was defeated in the Senate last Friday. As CNN reports , President Bush said he would have vetoed the Senate bill anyway. So, it looks like major action on . . .
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December 26, 2008 02:52 AM EST --
In Oregon, the Portland City Council has developed a feebate policy to improve the environmental performance of buildings.
The proposed policy seeks to cut carbon emissions from buildings, reduce . . .
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March 06, 2008 08:09 PM EST --
As is now abundantly clear, we cannot continue releasing emissions into the atmosphere as we have done in the past. Emissions should be cut dramatically everywhere around the world, the sooner the . . .
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April 29, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
Why action needs to be taken
It has been known for decades that global warming is a problem. Over time, it has become increasingly clear that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to avoid catastrophe. . . .
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May 18, 2008 12:39 AM EDT --
Some people say that world population is "exploding" and that "overpopulation should be tackled", supposedly to deal with both food shortages and global warming. OK, the pope has a . . .
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May 17, 2008 10:12 AM EDT --
World biodiversity has declined by almost one third in the past 35 years due mainly to habitat loss and the wildlife trade, according to a Reuters report on the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and . . .
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October 11, 2009 10:53 PM EDT --
A team of recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates have made roof tiles that change color with temperature, as described in MIT News .
The tiles turn white in hot weather and . . .
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September 21, 2007 05:08 AM EDT --
The above image is from a NASA news release discussing that interactions with aerosols boost the global warming potential of gases such as methane . A study published in Science by a team led by . . .
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December 28, 2007 03:38 AM EST --
The best way to deal with global warming is a FeeBate policy. This works fast and effectively, is ideology- and budget-neutral and has the least risk of feeding a wasteful bureaucracy.
In essence, a . . .
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January 15, 2008 02:35 AM EST --
Electric vehicles can cut greenhouse gas emissions in two ways. They are clean and efficient. By acting as storage capacity, they can also make the electric grid more efficient.
Electric cars are . . .
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February 03, 2009 01:10 AM EST --
President Obama, please read this!
The energy and environmental policy that you have proposed for the U.S. is a patchwork of policies, ranging from higher fuel efficiency standards and subsidies for . . .
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February 15, 2009 10:31 PM EST --
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has in many respects underestimated the severity of global warming and the speed at which it strikes. "From 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions . . .
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January 04, 2009 05:10 AM EST --
In Beijing, measures have been introduced to phase out vehicles that cause heavy pollution, combined with financial incentives to facilitate the shift to cleaner vehicles.
Yellow-label vehicles will . . .
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September 19, 2008 10:13 AM EDT --
Emission trading will not work !
We should recognize that a global emission trading scheme will only sabotage real efforts to reduce emissions. It's a scheme designed by neocons and polluting . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:41 PM EST --
Below are Sam Carana 's 20 most viewed posts at Gather, as at 23 November 2009.
Global Warming - Red Alert!
views: 10024 | rating: 8.6 | comments: 139
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May 19, 2009 01:15 AM EDT --
Cycle A: Inorganic Waste
We're all familiar with the idea that we're running out of scarce resources. We just cannot continue to keep drilling and mining for more fossil fuel, metals and . . .
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