Posted by Jon Coifman
Presidential candidates have been out and about this week talking about their respective plans to create thousands of new “green collar” jobs. It’s the right idea, but the wrong way to talk about it. Building the clean, sustainable, energy efficiency...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
In a closed door session recently, General Motors product development chief and granddaddy of Detroit automotive management Bob Lutz announced to a group of reporters in Dallas that global warming is “a crock of sh*t”.Yes, this is the very same...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Solving Global Warming
Global warming treaty talks wrapped up this weekend in Bali delivered a stirring international rebuke to the intransigent "diplomacy" of the Bush administration, and produced a remarkable last-minute breakthrough in the stalemate over US versus developing country action. My colleague...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Mark your calendars, folks. This is the week that China starts exporting wind turbines to the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal’s energy blog, Mingyang Wind Power Technology Co., Ltd., has inked it’s first American deal for...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Solving Global Warming
Starting next week, planeloads of negotiators from around the globe will be meeting in Bali, Indonesia to begin mapping out a successor to the Kyoto global warming treaty inked 10 years ago and which expires in 2012. The procedings are...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
Don't be alarmed on your way to work if the Hummer in the next lane is being driven by a chicken. Two animal rights groups have launched high-visibility campaigns arguing that eating meat causes more global warming pollution than your...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
General Motors posted new earnings numbers this morning to mostly rosy headlines. Drudge Report is running the story under the banner "USA! USA! GM posts $891-million profit…" But all is not well for the big automaker, which lost its status...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Solving Global Warming
Queries have started rolling in about the sudden boom in private law firms announcing to that they are getting into the global warming business. It’s an interesting development to be sure, but not without some risk that frothy press...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Just in time for your camping trip, Tara Pope at the Wall Street Journal reports today on several studies concluding that global warming is already bringing us more and more potent poison ivy.One analysis appearing in the journal Weed Science...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
According to the Associated Press and other sources today, China is pushing back on Western observers who are spotlighting the country's rising CO2 emissions (which may or may not have surpassed ours, depending on who you believe). In the past,...
