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Cap-and-Trade Depends on Obama’s Health Care Success

Joe Walsh — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:49:36 +0000

The Sunday talk shows were full of talk about the health care reform fight: are there 60 votes in the Senate? is the public option off the table? are illegal immigrants covered? And, while consensus on any health care answers has been fleeting, everyone agrees on what is the most important question: how is President Obama going to PAY for health care reform?

The White House still lists climate change legislation as one of its priorities, but with Senate action on a bill getting pushed deeper into September - and closer to oblivion for 2009 - greens cannot help but worry that their cause will not only be eclipsed by health care, but also by the economy generally, unemployment specifically, and even foreign policy issues like the escalation in Afghanistan.

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Trading Carbon at the Wall Street Green Trading Summit

Alan Smith — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:40:32 +0000

We’re coming at you live with more special Red, Green, and Blue coverage from New York’s very own Wall Street Green Trading Summit.

It’s Lunchtime now at the WSGTS, and I just emerged from another dizzying bout of acronyms to find myself totally shocked by how little I know about big market investing. Fortunately, I stumbled on Open Carbon World, an open source project on carbon footprints that is here at the conference. They have accumulated the following glossary of terms, acronyms and etc. to help novices like me navigate these crazy fast talking presentations. If I drop one or two over the next few days, please forgive the frazzled brain, and give them a look up!

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OCW is presenting tomorrow, so I’ll reserve final judgment ’til then, but expect a post on some sweet open source ideas having to do with footprints and offsets.

OK, so Carbon Trading, huh?

The murky mysteries of the market continue to elude me. The second session today was all about the carbon offset market: where the money is, where the investment opportunities are and will be, and who is making the rules about what a carbon offset even means.

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How Will A Carbon Market Drive Economic Land Reform?

Chris Milton — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:53:13 +0000

Gazing into the future of a carbon market, two things seem certain: a fundamental change to the economy and sweeping land reforms.

There are two well known and highly charged sayings about land:

The fast approaching world of a carbon market could see how we use land becoming the most important issue in stopping climate change becoming a disaster for mankind.

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Bank of America: Greenwash Watch

Sarah Lozanova — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:52:33 +0000

As the largest consumer and small business bank, BofA (NYSE: BAC) can have a major positive or negative impact on the environment. Since March, 2007, the bank has taken on a $20 billion initiative to “encourage environmentally friendly business activity” over the next decade. Applauded by some and criticized by others, just how green is this bank?

Crystalline Tower Office Building in Manhattan

BofA’s new 2.1 million square foot, 54 story tower is being heralded as the world’s greenest skyscraper. This $1 billion glass, steel, and aluminum skyscraper will use significantly less water and energy, while providing a healthy indoor environment.

It features a passive solar design, the use of recycled and renewable materials, and work stations with individual climate controls. Natural elements include the use of rain water and a green roof reduces energy use for heating and cooling. A graywater system will reuse waste water from sinks to flush toilets. A 4.6 megawatt cogeneration plant will generate heat and electricity.

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How 3 ABBA CD’s Can Buy You Control Over Europe’s Big Polluters

Gavin Hudson — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:49:25 +0000

I know the question burning in your mind right now is “How much would I have to pay to own three copies of ABBA’s Definitive Collection all for myself?”. Not just the Greatest Hits or the Mamma Mia soundtrack. No, the one with the word “definitive” in the title. We wouldn’t mind telling you exactly how much it’d cost.

But before we do that, we’d like to tell you about a different way to spend the same amount of money. While this option wouldn’t have you rocking out to Swedish 80’s pop songs, it would let you personally prevent a measurable amount of pollution from some of Europe’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

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