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Building Hope One House at a Time: Nancy Murray has taken recycling to a whole new level — she recycles houses. by erica — last modified Nov 20, 2009 03:27 PM — filed under: Nancy Murray, buildings, greenhouse gas emissions, business, climate change, housing, recycling, global warming, Builders of Hope, sustainability, homelessness, waste — Relevance: 1%
Cap and Trade Part 1: It’s About the Cap, Stupid: Where the climate is concerned, don’t be fooled: it’s ultimately about the “cap” not the “and trade” part. by erica — last modified Jul 10, 2009 10:18 AM — filed under: cap and trade, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, business, climate change, legislation, global warming, global economy, policy, politics, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
Companies Calling for Carbon Caps: And Then There Were 26: Amid a growing debate between a carbon tax and cap and trade and reports of congressional rifts between so-called brown states and green states, one unlikely ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 12:10 PM — filed under: cap and trade, U.S. Congress, greenhouse gas emissions, business, USCAP, carbon tax, legislation, global warming, United States Climate Action Partnership, climate change, corporations, Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act — Relevance: 1%
Carbon Markets and Environmentalism: Is Market-Based the New Dirty Word(s)?: In the 1970s, markets and environmentalists were like oil and water. But by the 1990s market-based solutions had proved effective in combating acid rain. Now ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 01:23 PM — filed under: cap and trade, business, climate change, greenhouse gases, global warming, carbon dioxide emissions, markets — Relevance: 1%
The Man from Greensboro and His Super Green Hotel: Been to any LEED Platinum hotels lately? Probably not, unless you’ve been to the Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina – it’s the first and only one of ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 12:32 PM — filed under: business, LEED certified, energy, energy efficiency, Dennis Quaintance, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
Where Does Our E-waste Go?: So you <3 (i.e., love) your new iPhone, but where's the old clunker (i.e., last month's coolest model) it replaced? And your first iPod, old PC, big tube TV ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 01:58 PM — filed under: business, Hong Kong, recycling, Africa, outsourcing, Asia, e-waste, China, policy, Guandong Province, electronics, European Union, pollution — Relevance: 1%
China's New Car: Plug In, Turn On, Drive Out: Back in the ‘50s, a strange little car from Germany suddenly appeared -- the Beetle. No way, we thought, could Germany compete with Detroit. We were wrong. Now ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 12:27 PM — filed under: fuel economy, transportation, business, automobile, automakers, electric cars, plug-in hybrids, cars — Relevance: 1%
Green VC: Another Casualty of Economic Meltdown?: While I was away in Nepal recently, <a class="external-link" href="http://nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/greenvc">guest blogger</a> Ben Abrams, a Duke alum who ... by erica — last modified Sep 03, 2009 10:40 AM — filed under: green investments, business, Thomas Friedman, John Doerr, New York Times — Relevance: 1%
The State of Green Tech Investing: One VC's View: I'm a Duke grad, working for a venture capital firm that's focused on finding and funding the next generation of renewable fuels and clean technologies. Dr. ... by erica — last modified Mar 31, 2009 10:28 AM — filed under: green investments, business, economics, global warming, China, pollution, economy — Relevance: 1%
When Is Greenwashing at Play?: Green is in. No question that is a good thing. But how can we tell true green from "greenwashing"? Some years back I was accused of aiding and abetting a ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 02:13 PM — filed under: carbon footprint, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, consumers, business, oil company, cars, energy, corn ethanol, automakers, George W. Bush, oil, California, climate change, greenwashing, corporations — Relevance: 1%
Hong Kong Journal: This is my second dispatch from Hong Kong, where I am helping City University of Hong Kong develop a new Energy and Environment program. Hong Kong is known as ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 01:59 PM — filed under: waste, air quality, business, air pollution, Pearl River, energy, natural gas, water, global economy, Guandong Province, water pollution, factories, Hong Kong, industry — Relevance: 1%
An Open Letter to Our Next President: Dear President-Elect Obama, Please consider these four environmental actions in the first days of your administration. by erica — last modified Sep 03, 2009 10:40 AM — filed under: smart grid, Clean Air Act, infrastructure, transportation, electric grid, business, air pollution, electricity, renewable energy, energy, alternative fuel, greenhouse gases, global warming, John McCain, Kyoto Protocol, Internet, politics, carbon dioxide emissions, economy — Relevance: 1%
The U.A.E. and the U.S.: While in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on business last week, I expected to find an alien country. What I found instead was a place maybe not so foreign after ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 01:55 PM — filed under: oil, business, natural gas, United Arab Emirates, energy, recycling, water, coal, solar, renewable energy, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
China’s Carbon Intensity: A Roller Coaster Ride: China is now the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2), but are its emissions getting cleaner or dirtier? by erica — last modified Jun 02, 2009 12:06 PM — filed under: carbon footprint, business, carbon intensity, global warming, global economy, China, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
WSJ Climate Naysayer Has New Culprit: Big Business: News flash from the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal: we must stop climate change legislation. Why? Because big business wants to make money. by erica — last modified May 28, 2009 09:00 AM — filed under: cap and trade, greenhouse gas emissions, Bjorn Lomborg, business, climate change, carbon tax, economics, global warming, global economy, Wall Street Journal, acid rain program, economy — Relevance: 1%
Buildings, a Better Future: Last week, the owners of the Empire State Building announced they were going to turn the iconic Empire State Building green — as in sustainable. (The ... by erica — last modified Apr 16, 2009 11:27 AM — filed under: development, buildings, business, Empire State Building, climate change, global warming, sustainability, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
GM Declares Bankruptcy: The end of an era, to be sure. But how did this happen? The result of meddling by “<a class="external-link" ... by erica — last modified Jun 01, 2009 03:27 PM — filed under: transportation, business, air pollution, automobile, automakers, health, Wall Street Journal, carbon dioxide emissions, General Motors — Relevance: 1%
On the Climate Bill Fence: What Senator Specter Is Thinking: In June the House did its thing, passing a bill that would limit carbon dioxide emissions to start addressing global warming. Now it’s the Senate’s turn. Who’s ... by erica — last modified Sep 17, 2009 02:47 PM — filed under: cap and trade, U.S. Congress, business, coal, climate change, energy, legislation, climate bill fence, global warming, Arlen Specter, Waxman-Markey climate bill, policy, politics, economy — Relevance: 1%
Speaking of the Environment: Some tidbits about climate-change politics and a surprising even shocking relationship between deaths and economic growth. by erica — last modified Oct 01, 2009 01:02 PM — filed under: cap and trade, Clean Air Act, business, climate, economics, legislation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, politics, Waxman-Markey climate bill, climate change, policy, Environmental Protection Agency, carbon dioxide emissions, economy — Relevance: 1%
Lomborg’s Cool Take on Global Warming: Bjorn Lomborg is at it again on the pages of the Wall Street Journal. No action on climate change, he argues, because it’s too hard *and* too easy. ... by erica — last modified Aug 28, 2009 02:32 PM — filed under: Bjorn Lomborg, business, climate change, economics, global warming, geo-engineering, Wall Street Journal, technology, economy — Relevance: 1%

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