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Market Externalities of Fossil Fuels
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / November 20, 2009
A new report by the National Research Council seeks to put a dollar amount on the “hidden” costs of energy produced by burning fossil fuels.
These costs aren’t factored into the market prices of coal, oil, and gasoline, or ...Read more.
Working Group on Sustainable Livelihoods
Mission of the Working Group:
Over 2 billion people have been left out of the purported economic gains of the globalization process of the last decade. The disparity between rich and poor has been increasing, and the global economic collapse has shown the strong inter-connections between developed and developing worlds. Clean air, clean water and biodiversity ...Read more.
The Post Copenhagen Apocalypse
What we all must take away from Copenhagen, is don’t expect leadership to lead.
GOAL Site makes formal Presentation to Mayor’s Forum on Jobs
Foundation President, Marc Dreyfors, presented to Mayor Bill Bell’s forum on job creation, a part of the national effort by the White House and the Obama Administration to receive feedback to help form public policy.
“Green Infrastructure is Critical to Creative Class Communities!”
Green Infrastructure (not to be confused with green technologies) is essential to developing sustainable communities. Durham is already widely recognized as a center for the creative class, a contemporary name for “knowledge” workers. These aren’t just jobs for artists but all jobs that require thinking and/or creating for a living, e.g. researchers, doctors, lawyers, etc. ...Read more.
What is a “Community Supported Energy” (CSE) Project?
Community Supported Sustainable Energy projects are desperately needed to increase local energy production, reduce reliance on external producers and keep money money local, increasing multipliers while creating jobs.
Review of Break Through: from the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, by Nordhaus and Shellenberger
The major premise of their book is that the environmental movement has ceased being a “movement” and has reduced itself to an interest group based on complaint activism. Motivated by scientific rationalism, nature has risen to become a religion, decoupling human potential from solving our long list of problems.
Freightliner Custom Chassis (FCCC): State-of-the-art in truck design?
Triangle Clean Cities hosted a tour of the Gaffney, SC Freightliner truck chassis facility, owned by Daimler. The chassis were going into a range of vehicles, and the engineers we met were using the designs for the basis of hybrid and alternative fuel systems.
Green is Golden-belt Redevelopment Project
A Community Supported Energy (CSE) Project and Incubator Space for the Arts and the Emerging Green Economy
Critique of White House “Green Jobs Report”
The following is a critique of “The White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families: Green Jobs Report,” convened by Vice President Joe Biden. It is an excellent document and in it are the words and conceptual models needed for the The Green Jobs Movement’s success. It also is missing some things.