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Gov. Perry on Anthropogenic Climate Change

{ Posted on Oct 04 2011 by Menzie Chinn }
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Categories : Econbrowser, environment, Money, Uncategorized
From Reuters, three days ago: "I still stand by that the science is not settled on man-made global warming," Perry said while campaigning in the key early primary state of New Hampshire. By the way of contrast, from the Preface to National ...Read More »

Weekend Reflection Points

{ Posted on Sep 30 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, alternative energy investment, Angry Bear, Banks and Financial Institutions, capital adequacy, Economics, employer-provided health insurance, environment, risk management, TARP, Uncategorized
The lead article in the current AER is available here (gated, apparently, though the link isn't working; h/t Tom Bozzo [on FB] and Brad DeLong; I was using the paper copy). The most interesting part so far: the authors only ...Read More »

What could America be good at?

{ Posted on Sep 15 2011 by James Hamilton }
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Categories : Econbrowser, environment, Money, Uncategorized
A vision of what American economic growth over the next decade could look like might also help us address our immediate economic problems. Read More »

We Can All Be Like Texas!

{ Posted on Sep 09 2011 by Menzie Chinn }
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Categories : Econbrowser, environment, Money, Uncategorized
From Fort Worth Star Telegram: As the Texas Forest Service battles what may be the state's most destructive wildfire outbreak ever, state lawmakers are facing criticism that they have has taken a penny-wise-pound-foolish approach to funding the agency. Read More »

Being Early to the Party: Bad for Links, But Good for Information

{ Posted on Jun 15 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Budget, environment, Idiocy, Obama Administration, Uncategorized
Yahoo! News, Tuesday early afternoonDr. Black, Wednesday, just before noon.Brad DeLong, about fifteen minutes after Dr. BlackMe, Monday morning.But this isn't a "First Mover" claim. It's a note that there are no "savings" in getting rid of the website. There ...Read More »

Shale gas environmental concerns

{ Posted on May 15 2011 by James Hamilton }
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Categories : Econbrowser, environment, Money, Uncategorized
Technological breakthroughs in methods for drilling for natural gas have opened up the possibility of vast new supplies. However, environmental concerns may turn out to be significant. Read More »

Joseph Stiglitz: Of the 1% by the 1% for the 1%

{ Posted on Apr 08 2011 by Divorced one like Bush }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Budget, Bush tax cuts, economic growth, environment, income equality, Joseph Stiglitz, Uncategorized
by Daniel Becker This is an interview of Joseph Stiglitz on Democracy Now regarding his article in the current Vanity Fair.  He discuss the issue of income inequality, taxes, etc and how it has set us up to be less of ...Read More »

Green Investments: Weighing the Risks

{ Posted on Apr 07 2011 by Z }
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Categories : All, Business, Economy, electricity, Energy, environment, green, Investing blog, investments, nuclear, Oil, Stocks, tax credits, Uncategorized
So green investments aren’t at all risk-free, everyone knows that. But they’re not as safe now as they were before the nuclear disaster in Japan. With plenty of controversy surrounding nuclear’s future, it’s probably a good time ...Read More »

Environment and Gold

{ Posted on Nov 20 2010 by James Hedson }
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Categories : All, Business Finance Marketing, environment, gold mining, kaplan, Management, Mining, tigris
Gold mining results in vast amount of waster materials. This is usually in the form of tailing materials, which is basically the waste after gold processing. Much of gold extraction involved the use of mercury and cyanide, environmentally ...Read More »

CGI, Day 4 – Clean Technology and Smart Energy: Deploying the Green Economy

{ Posted on Sep 23 2010 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, CGI, climate, economic development, Energy, environment, global warming, TCO
Moderator is John Holdren, Science and Technology Advisor to President Barack Obama and Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Participants are: Nadia K. Al Dossary, Chief Executive Officer and Partner, Al Sale Eastern ...Read More »
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