Posted by David Goldstein in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I have blogged previously about how the failure to focus on energy efficiency is one of the root causes of the global economic crisis, and how economic stimulus packages must address these fundamental problems to succeed. We here in the...
Posted by David Goldstein in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
All of the debate this week in Congress regarding the stimulus bill seems to be over its size and whether it focuses on government spending or private investment. Completely absent is discussion about the root causes of the crisis and...
Posted by David Goldstein in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I wrote yesterday to explain how energy efficiency is tied to our recovery from the economic recession and to applaud President Obama’s assertive steps to improve the efficiency of cars and buildings. Today, I’ll expand on my theory that the...
Posted by David Goldstein in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
President Obama today took assertive steps to improve the energy efficiency of cars and buildings, and linked this to the need for green jobs to stimulate the nation’s economy. The connection between energy efficiency and economic recovery needs to be...
Posted by David Goldstein in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Yesterday I wrote about the need for new underwriting standards at Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to steer a careful course between two rocks: The risk to the taxpayers of continuing the practices that got them into this mess in...
