(Bloomberg) — It’s time to stop crediting corporate sustainability efforts as acts of altruism. For big business, protecting the environment often means padding the bottom line.Nike Inc. has come up with a way to weave more efficiently, reducing the raw material and labor time needed to make each shoe The whole movement … Continue reading Corporate America Has Found a Way to Turn a Profit Off Being Green
Editorial: Policymakers ought not wait for economic theory to catch up with the environmental crisis Source: The Guardian view on a Green New Deal: we need it now | Climate change | … Continue reading The Guardian view on a Green New Deal: we need it now | Climate change | The Guardian
The human race has broken another record on its race to ecological collapse. Congratulations humanity! For the first time in human history — not recorded history, but since humans have existed on … Continue reading CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415 parts per million for the first time in human history | TechCrunch
Too many of us work too much. It’s not just making us miserable, it’s wrecking the planet. Rather than causing us to forgo things to cut carbon emissions, a Green New Deal … Continue reading Could a Green New Deal Make Us Happier People?
The mounting damage of global warming is a crisis far greater than the deficit. Eitger spend a few trillion today or $54 trillion+ (minimum) in the future. Source: The War On Climate … Continue reading The War On Climate Change Won’t Be Won Quibbling Over The Green New Deal’s Costs
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plan to halt climate change will be cheaper in the long run Even the Financial Times gets it. Source: Pay for Green New Deal now or spend even more later Continue reading Pay for Green New Deal now or spend even more later | FT
Those who ask ‘how will we pay for’ a Green New Deal need to learn public finance. Ditto those fearing inflation. We’ll pay for the GND as we do everything else, and … Continue reading The Green New Deal: How We Will Pay for It Isn’t ‘a Thing’ – and Inflation Isn’t Either | Forbes
Study By Ecologists, Economists Predicts Collapse of World Ocean Ecology This is really bad and will require immediate action to try to stop it. Source: Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 – … Continue reading Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 – CBS News
The pay-go rule makes it more difficult for Democrats to pass a host of liberal agenda items, while Republicans are free to blow big holes in the tax code. The original New … Continue reading Nancy Pelosi Rams Austerity Provision Into House Rules Package
Democratic leaders on Thursday tapped Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) to head a revived U.S. House panel on climate change, all but ending a dramatic monthlong effort to establish a select committee on … Continue reading Democrats Just Blocked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Push For A Green New Deal Committee
India has cancelled plans to build nearly 14 gigawatts of coal-fired power stations – about the same as the total amount in the UK – with the price for solar electricity “free … Continue reading India cancels plans for huge coal power stations as solar energy prices hit record low
Interesting Twitter thread from Noah Smith Here is the link to the Green New Deal proposal. Continue reading All of our climate efforts should be about making our economy greener rather than shrinking our economy
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