Posted by David Goldstein in Living Sustainably
I have blogged several times about the observation that mortgage defaults were not only a consequence of lax lending standards or predatory lending or uninformed consumers, but also a result of urban sprawl. I noted that for a typical new...
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 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 , 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...
