Posted by Jon Coifman in The Media and the Environment
President Bush delivered a much-hyped speech on the administration's supposedly new global warming policy agenda today in the White House Rose Garden. Here are my initial reactions: The plan, if you can call it that, lags far behind the political...
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 The Media and the Environment
Today McKinsey & Company, one of the world's leading management consulting firms released a sweeping new assessment of the more than 250 measures that together would get us into the ballpark of the global warming emission cuts now on...
Posted by Jon Coifman in The Media and the Environment
Out in Chicago, beyond the radar of coastal elite media watchers, a serious journalism ethics scandal is unfolding.Some have framed it as free speech and open debate, but that is manifestly not the issue. The real question is whether a...
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 The Media and the Environment
Minneapolis is where I grew up. Depending on which way mom, dad or the bus was going, I went over, under or around the I-35W bridge on my way to school everyday for about 10 years. I also (mis)spent a...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment
Back to the Wall Street Journal today, where we learn that racecar-driver-turned-truck-rental-and-car-dealer-mogul Roger Penske has signed on to bring the long awaited two-seat Smart car to America. If you've been to Europe in the last five years, chances are you've...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment
Stepping into our Washington office during the energy bill fight now under way in both houses of congress is a bit like walking onto the bridge of a battleship during heavy maneuvers (except the offices are messier). All hands on...
