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 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 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 U.S. Law and Policy
A close examination of our current financial morass shows that bad policy (or a lack of policy) on energy efficiency accounts for a surprisingly large part of the problem, and remedying this failure can deliver a large part of the...
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 , 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...
