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Carbon Tax Shift Gaining Favor Across Canada?
WorldChanging Team, 3 Jul 09 Posted by Anna Fahey As British Columbia acknowledges the one year anniversary of the landmark carbon tax shift policy, the revenue-neutral tax recently bumped prices at the pump from 2.4 cents to 3.6 cents a litre. But the price...
Pioneer City 2030: What the Energy System of the Future Looks Like
Patrick Mazza, 3 Jul 09 The energy system of the future is being founded now. New energy systems and technologies are growing on an accelerating curve: • Buildings that are green, super-efficient and fully managed by digital technologies have become economically competitive. • Hybrid vehicles...
A Plea To President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining by James Hansen
Yale Environment 360, 29 Jun 09 by James Hansen Tighter restrictions on mountaintop removal mining are simply not enough. Instead, a leading climate scientist argues, the Obama administration must prohibit this destructive practice, which is devastating vast stretches of Appalachia. President Obama speaks of “a planet...
Camping at Tällberg – Episode 3: An Evening of Standing Ovations
Alan AtKisson, 28 Jun 09 Gro Harlem Brundtland is relating stories from her childhood — as a Norwegian refugee in Stockholm during World War II, leading her little brother safely across streets, and the unexpected apology she received from her father, when she was 12...
Camping at Tällberg -- Episode 2: A Bad Problem Problem is Actually Much Worse
Alan AtKisson, 28 Jun 09 It’s morning. I had a wonderful, quiet time by the Lake, sleeping, writing, playing guitar. (The photo was taken just after midnight, from my tentsite.) But now I walk (late) into the big tent of the Tällberg Forum. Global reality...
