Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming
UPDATE 3/19: TIME reports on NRDC-Garrison Institute study. Last week, NRDC Executive Director Peter Lehner presented the “Behavioral Wedge” at the first-ever Garrison Institute Climate, Mind and Behavior Symposium. A joint NRDC-Garrison Institute project, the wedge identified one billion tons...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
UPDATE 3/18: Table edited. Today Matt Eisenson continues his blog series on the NRDC-Garrison Institute Behavioral Wedge—a.k.a. the “Billion Tons Project”—with his fifth and final post. The theme today is reducing waste. To catch up on Matt’s earlier posts, see...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming
In an Arkansas Times OpEd yesterday, Kenneth Smith, Director of Audubon Arkansas, made the case for why Arkansas—and specifically Arkansas rural communities, which are rich in natural resources and fertile land—have more to gain than lose from comprehensive climate and...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
UPDATE 3/18: Table edited. Today, Matt Eisenson continues his series of blogs on the Behavioral Wedge Project with the fourth of five posts, focusing on the climate impacts of changes to our daily diets. (For more on this work, check out...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
UPDATE 3/16: Two measures added--delay retirement of personal computers by two years and use dryer more sparingly (line-dry in the summer). Today, my colleague Matt Eisenson continues his blog series on the NRDC-Garrison Institute "Behavioral Wedge Project" (see here and...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
UPDATE 3/16: Correction to aviation emissions reductions (56 MMtCO2e NOT 125 MMtCO2e). Additional measures added to Household Energy to compensate for this shortfall. Last week on this Switchboard blog, my colleague Matt Eisenson introduced the Behavioral Wedge Project, a joint NRDC-Garrison Institute effort to see if...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I’d like to introduce Matt Eisenson, a new Fellow here at NRDC, who has spent the last few months working with experts at NRDC and friends at the Garrison Institute to develop the "Behavioral Wedge," the one billion ton personal action opportunity. ...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming
This week in Copenhagen, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that USDA will partner with US dairy farmers to reduce dairy industry greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 25% by 2020. The agreement was signed with Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), which represents...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming
This week, Kansas State University released its review of six recent economic studies that examine the cost-benefit impacts of the House-passed American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454, a.k.a. ACES) on the domestic agricultural sector. The review provides a...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming
Last week the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research held hearings on the economic impacts of climate legislation on the domestic agricultural sector. Certain members of the Committee continued to cite one-sided studies that focus on increases...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming , Solving Global Warming
In a statement released yesterday by its President Keith Bolin, the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA) added its voice to the rapidly growing number of industry groups across the U.S. economy supporting the U.S. Senate's effort to pass comprehensive federal...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming , Solving Global Warming
In a statement released yesterday by its President Keith Bolin, the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA) added its voice to the rapidly growing number of industry groups across the U.S. economy supporting the U.S. Senate's effort to pass comprehensive federal...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming
A new report released by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions adds to a growing body of analysis, including a recent study by USDA, which shows how U.S. farmers are well-positioned to gain from clean energy and climate...
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming
NRDC released the results of its year-long economic analysis of clean energy and climate protection legislation today. A summary of our main findings can be found here but I'd like to highlight some specific findings on the role of offsets....
Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Last week, the USDA's Office of the Chief Economist published its preliminary analysis of the effect of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) on the U.S. agricultural sector. The conclusion was clear: ACES will help, not hurt, American...
