Tag: Carbon Taxes - Page 2
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Another Problem with Carbon Credits: They Get Stolen
At least $40 million worth of carbon credits have been stolen in recent weeks from various registries across Europe, in what some are calling a growing black market for carbon credits.The Wall Street Journal explains that there are
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Could We See Fuel Rationing by 2020?
With secret government talks suggesting peak oil may be nearer than we think and IEA insiders claiming world oil stats have been inflated, it makes sense to start planning for a world where
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Carbon Trading is Far From Perfect, But What's the Alternative?
While some see it as the only viable way to curb our carbon emissions, and there is evidence that the EU's carbon trading scheme has helped reduce emissions, the fact that the global carbon market has grown to over
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Denis Hayes on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day
When he was just in his mid-20s, Denis Hayes was made national coordinator of the very first Earth Day. That was forty years ago, and a lot has changed. Over his career as a lawyer, technologist, investor, and advocate, Hayes has watched Earth Day
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Lowering Income Taxes While Raising Pollution Taxes Reaps Great Returns
As economic decision-makers--whether consumers, corporate planners, government policymakers, or investment bankers--we all
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational (Video)
In the final installment of our Pop!Tech Pop Quiz experiment, TreeHugger founder Graham Hill sits down with behavioral economist Dan Ariely, subjecting him to our Yes/No/Maybe harassment. Ariely's book, Predictably Irrational, reflects his years of
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Energize Clinton County (Video)
Mark Rembert and Taylor Stuckert returned to their homes in Clinton County, Ohio to find economic devastation. DHL, a mainstay employer of the area, had pulled out, leaving a jobless void. The two friends responded by doing what seemed logical: they
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Andrew Rasiej of Personal Democracy Forum (Video)
Andrew Rasiej is the man behind Personal Democracy Forum, a website and yearly conference focussed on the way that technology and politics intersect. In front of this kinda eerie painting (his choice), Rasiej takes on our battery of questions on nuclear
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Matt Ludwig (Video)
Matt Ludwig is the brain behind Matt Ludwig Design and the creator of BlipSnips, a clever little video linking tool. He handled our Yes/No/Maybe onslaught with grace. I especially liked his response to the question of whether Obama is doing what he
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Amanda Koster of SalaamGarage (Video)
This week we roll on with our mutant pet project: byte-sized Yes/No/Maybe interviews with attendees of the Pop!Tech conference. First up, Amanda Koster, a photographer who founded SalaamGarage. Her org. works with non-profits to assemble teams of
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Chris Page of Yahoo! (Video)
How do you respond to nuanced questions of nuclear power, clean coal, and Obama's climate policy when you can only defend yourself with Yes, No, or Maybe? You do your best, that's how. We cornered Chris Page, Yahoo!'s Director of Energy and Climate,
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Nathaniel Whittemore (Video)
Nathaniel Whittemore is self-described as the type of guy who has a Twitter account for his dog. In his case, this is one of those strange symptoms of being deeply plugged in (not daft). Nathaniel edits a media portal on Change.org and co-founded
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Lina Srivastava (Video)
Finding brilliant engaged people at the Pop!Tech conference is easier than shooting fish in a barrel (even if you're a weekday vegetarian). Case in point, we interrogated Lina Srivastava, a New York-based consultant who currently serves as the social
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Tom Darden of Make it Right (Video)
Tom Darden steers Make it Right, the green building non-profit that Brad Pitt sparked after Hurricane Katrina. The mission: to bring 150 sustainable (and storm resistant) homes to the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. We pinned down Darden, Make it
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Hansen Was Right: Cap and Trade Isn't the Solution
Climate change scientist James Hansen plans to boycott the Copenhagen summit in protest of proposed cap and trade plans. Photo by World Development Movement via Flickr. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to
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Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Emily Pilloton of Project H Design (Video)
Each year a small horde of scary-smart people assemble in quaint Camden, Maine for the Pop!Tech conference. We cornered some of these worldly and verbose savants and administered a special kind of torture: answer big questions with Yes, No, or Maybe. We
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Words We Can Believe In: The Hope-ful Power of "Loft"
Image credit: The U.S. Army/Flickr Richard Greene is a political communication strategist and host of Hollywood CLOUT! on Air America Radio. Tune in nightly for "The Air America/Treehugger Report" on Hollywood CLOUT! at 10:06 p.m. EST/7:06 p.m. PST,
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Public Option is the Cap and Trade of Health Care and We Need them Both
With the climate debate shifted over to the Senate for the time being, the House of Representatives has occupied itself with developing a health care reform plan. Recently, a consensus on this plan has slowly begun
