Politics

Climate & environment – Sept 16

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-The Royal Society’s Report on Geoengineering the Climate: Geoengineering or Geopiracy?
-Forget about 2050, we’re blowing the carbon budget now
-Red Snow Warning
-Scientists find CO2 link to Antarctic ice cap origin
-A triumph for man, a disaster for mankind
-Climate change will damage your health
-New York City Girds Itself for Heat and Rising Seas
-Staff in carbon footprint trial face £100 fines for high emissions

Economics – Sept 16

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-Obama urges banks to accept new sense of responsibility
-Through the prism of fraud and poverty
-Keep banks on the straight and narrow
-A Critique of Ecological Economics
-From job to handouts in six weeks
-US Census Bureau Confirms Rising Poverty, Falling Incomes, And Growing Numbers Of Uninsured
-Can he fix it? Sarkozy’s carbon-tax plan derided by environmentalists
-New York Faces Dramatic Consequences of Crisis

Reality Receding

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Now that everybody in the USA, from the janitors in their man-caves to the president addressing congress, has declared the “recession” over, is exactly the moment when what’s left of the so-called economy is most likely to implode. If there were still shoeshine boys on Wall Street, they’d be starting their own hedge funds now, and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow would be toasting them in the Grill Room of The Four Seasons.

The first peak oil recession: Interview with Steven Kopits

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Steven Kopits, who runs the New York office of Douglas Westwood, was in Denver last week. He talked about his latest paper on peak oil and the economy with Steve Andrews and will share related remarks at the ASPO-USA conference next month. Steve popped a few questions:…

Peak Moment 151: Baked in Telluride: Making Dough in a Tough Economy

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Biting into a fresh-baked cookie from “Baked in Telluride” is a double treat — a yummy goody that also supports a local independent business. Owner Jerry Green has been going “green” for decades before it became fashionable. He shares the challenges of running an independent business in a tourist town while competing with bakeries thousands of miles away. While a town councilor, Jerry helped shape projects like affordable public housing and public transportation.