Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
I had begun to write the following: “Remember how ten years ago, at the turn of the Millennium, the media were full of retrospectives of the last ten years, or hundred years, and of starry-eyed predictions for the next ten?...
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 Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne wrote today that This week's Group of 20 meeting in London will arise from the death of one system of ideas even as another struggles to be born. He discusses the concepts of government...
Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The $700 billion bailout of the debt markets now being debated in Congress is stark evidence of the fact that markets can fail, not just in little ways around the edges of the economy, but in a massive way that...
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...
Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise
Now that they're ours, what do we do with Freddie and Fannie? Last weekend, the federal government essentially took over control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest sources of financing for new homes. The problems of creditworthiness...
Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
In Saving Energy, Growing Jobs (published in 2007 by Bay Tree Publishing) I observed that there is a strong connection between efforts to stop climate change and a fear of Soviet-style big government. I wrote that: "Many of the arguments...
Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Oil prices are dropping to below $115 a barrel, so I guess the imperative to reduce our consumption soon will go away as well. That is what happened after the previous price spikes for oil in 1973, 1979, 1991, and...
Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
In his July 28 opinion piece for Salon, Joe Romm argues that energy efficiency may allow the nation to avoid the construction of any more polluting power plants. He holds, as I do in NRDC’s energy work, that America (and...
Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
In his Washington Post column of this morning, Charles Krauthammer does a very deft job of implying, without actually saying, that environmentalists are really Communists in sheep’s clothing. This is a common theme of self-described conservative writers. His article asserts...
