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Category: Sustainability
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Thirty years ago, I proposed a dissertation topic to establish a set of national income accounts for Green National Income. It was rejected as too grand (and honestly, I had no idea what I was talking about at the time). Fast forward to news out of Davos yesterday: President Joe Biden’s administration will launch an…
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I was recently looking back on some notes I wrote a while back on the difference between efficiency and equity. These notes came about for two reasons: 1) I've had fits and starts over the years of writing a Principles-level economics book from an environmental/sustainability perspective, and in thinking about this, 2) I've realized that…
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Warning: NSFW (Unless you work at a University and part of your job is to watch stuff like this and post it on a blog). The highlights of this have been around all week, but most of the clips are just Bill Nye the Science Guy saying "motherf***ers. But this segment on Last Week Tonight…
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CNN: The renewable energy sector is projected to generate more electricity than coal during the month of April, according to a recent report published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. That's never happened before. Technological change, government policies, and changing consumer preferences have all but guaranteed the switch from fossil fuels to renewables. …
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One thing world leaders agree on? Fish are the lowest priority on the United Nations Sustainability Goals. //
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Just got around to reading the Hsiang et al piece in Science on the inequitable economics impacts of climate change. Here's the abstract: Estimates of climate change damage are central to the design of climate policies. Here, we develop a flexible architecture for computing damages that integrates climate science, econometric analyses, and process models. We…
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a former #EPA colleague (he's there, I'm not) just said his office was told to remove ALL mentions of climate + sustainability from website — Kaitlin StackWhitney (@KStackWhitney) January 25, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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Quite possibly the most depressing introduction to a pseudo-academic workshop I have seen: How can we best live at this moment of severe environmental degradation? How can we work and teach on behalf of environmental wellbeing without becoming overwhelmed, embittered, or burned out? Is there a way to thrive in our environmental commitments? If that gets…
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I must admit that I would like to see superstar academic economists embrace a more humble outlook when communicating with the public. Humble economist Matt Kahn in "A Review of The Age of Sustainable Development by Jeffrey Sachs." Journal of Economic Literature, 53(3): 654-66.
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