Archive for the ‘Policy’ Category

All the world’s a stage, and nothing produces drama quite like an oil spill. But one should look behind the curtains to really understand our dependence on the pump.

Lean: it’s not just for business anymore. What if government could deliver more value and less waste?

If you pay someone to destroy greenhouse gases, they would never intentionally produce an excess, would they? Methinks I smell a rat.

The egg recall has many clamoring for stricter food safety regulations. But do they really make us safer, or quietly subvert our one hope for a sustainable food system?

The words ecosystem and economy both derive from the Greek root “oikos” meaning “house.” But they have more in common than just their etymologies.

If you feed a dinosaur, you get a bigger dinosaur. Just don’t come complaining to me when it eats you.

Find out how much Uncle Sam is willing to pay you for upgrading your home’s insulation, furnace, or windows through the pending Homestar Program. Cha-ching!

TweetToday, a juxtaposition of two very related, but conflicting “strategies” regarding our attempts to extract oil from under the ocean. Of course, if you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ll know that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20th, killing 11 people before sinking into the ocean.  Now, the [...]

TweetAs many of you know, this is the weekend for North Carolina’s Cash for Appliance rebate program.  I don’t need to reiterate my objections to the recent series of “clunker” giveaways, but I’ll let Adrienne from Home Performance NC sum up one of the social costs: The only thing I’m not thrilled about in the [...]

Tweet via Greentech Media: One of the main arguments that pro-ethanol lobby groups like the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy make in defense of the generous Congressional subsidies to U.S. corn ethanol producers is that Brazil unfairly competes by slapping a 20% tariff on imported ethanol, effectively locking out U.S. ethanol exports. Well, [...]