…on climate change World’s leading institutional investors managing $24 trillion call for carbon pricing, ambitious global climate deal Ahead of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Climate Summit at the United…

…gradually and in advance.”[1] Solow cited increases in the productivity of natural resources to illustrate the importance of the price system as the built-in mechanism of capitalism for “registering and…

…compensation/spending (eg. per capita GDP) that has the strongest connection to carbon footprint since there is no absolute de-coupling at all, and with relative decoupling, ecological and carbon footprints continue…

…I am leading off with Figure 1 as it depicts corporate conversation in annual reports about low carbon energy, climate change, emissions, and transition to less carbon energy resources. Some…

One of the climate change denialist memes is that, since plants inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen during the day, then increased CO2 will be *good* for trees. Setting aside…

…to infectious disease are technological fixes: antibiotics and vaccines. The realistic alternatives to global warming are also technological: carbon capture or solar geoengineering. As with all technological fixes, there are…

…Chapa, where we renamed “embodied carbon.” I am very proud that “upfront carbon” is now in common use. As my thinking and writing evolved, so did my teaching. My TMU…

…venture capital coming together to offer partnerships seems to have stoked new fuel in the competitive fires of capitalism in the meat industry.   They are not even close to being…

…trade restrictions imposed by these agreements. So, how does one deal with claims of a theoretical ‘free’ trade versus what?, ‘restricted’, ‘constricted’, ‘protectionist’ trade? Do multi-national companies not have rules?…

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…