Despite pressure from governments and environmental groups, illegal logging and deforestation are facts of life in many developing countries around the world. However, according to a study led by University of Florida professor Jack Putz, selective logging could potentially address these issues. Selective logging, as the name suggests, is not a perfect solution. In a [...]
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Study: Selective Logging Could Help Mitigate Ecological Impact
May 17th, 2012 
Chris DeArmond 
Posted in Conservation, Economics, Sustainability 
Tags: Chris DeArmond, Conservation, Florida, Forests 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Technology and US Fuel
April 6th, 2012 Justin Manger The incredible drop in imported liquid fuels such as oil over the last 6 years is due in large part to technological breakthroughs in drilling and recovery techniques that has let the U.S. capture more of its natural (though non-renewable) resources. The debates over the pros and cons to this trend of using advanced technology [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: Energy, Fracking, Natural Gas, Oil Consumption, Water No Comments »Number Of Green Jobs In U.S. Measured For First Time
April 2nd, 2012 Justin Manger The numbers have been crunched by the Labor Department and the results are in: green jobs accounted for an eye-poppingly low 2.4% of the United States’ total employment in 2010. However, this was the first ever survey of green goods and services jobs, so we don’t yet have something with which to compare the results. [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, Policy, President Obama Tags: Alternative Energy, Clean Energy, Green Product, Solar Energy No Comments »Approve the Keystone Pipeline
March 18th, 2012 Justin Manger Though perhaps a minority voice among the environmental set, I agree whole-heartedly with Joe Nocera’s column about how U.S. politics is interfering with U.S. national interests. Along with the incredible boom in natural gas production over the last several years in the United States, North America has been the place for booming oil sands production, with [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Economics, Justin Manger, News, Op-Ed, Polls, President Obama No Comments »When Big Business Is Not Good for the Environment
March 4th, 2012 Justin Manger A direct contrast to this piece about how big business can use its scale for social and environmental good, this post points out the inherent problems in getting businesses to do the right thing. The simple truth is that – in general and in the short-term view – an emphasis on green policies is not necessarily good [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Featured Posts, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Policy Tags: EPA, Washington DC No Comments »HUD Proposes $100 Million for Sustainable Communities
February 23rd, 2012 Eric Wilson Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced $100 million in Regional Planning and Community Challenge Grants as part of the 2013 budget. According to the press release, these “grants are part of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, which is an association between HUD, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: EPA, Urban Planning No Comments »China Bans Airlines from Paying European Union Carbon Tax
February 17th, 2012 Chris DeArmond At its outset in 2005, the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) was designed to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by factories, power plants, and other energy-intensive installations. At the beginning of this year, however, ETS began imposing the cap-and-trade system on all airlines with flights departing from or arriving at EU [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Featured Posts, Japan, News, President Obama, Transportation Tags: Brazil, Carbon Dioxide, Chris DeArmond, Congress No Comments »SunShot Initiative Aims to Make Solar Affordable
February 15th, 2012 Eric Wilson The United States’ Department of Energy (DOE) is working to bring down solar energy costs. The program, known as the SunShot Initiative, “is a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy cost competitive with other forms of energy by the end of the decade.” The goal is to drive down the costs of solar energy [...]
Posted in Economics, Eric Wilson, News, Renewable Energy Tags: Department of Energy, Solar Energy, Stephen Chu No Comments »Intel (Again) Leads 2011 Green Power Purchasers List
February 13th, 2012 Justin Manger The EPA announced its annual list of top green power purchasers last month (here is the list from 2010, also with Intel on top). This includes categories for businesses, schools, and government. On the business side Intel takes the top honors while Kohl’s Department Stores slides into the runner-up position. Making a huge jump in the rankings was [...]
Welcome to the Uniiverse
February 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson Evoking the memory of E.F. Schumacher, the German born economist who wrote Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, a new service by the name of Uniiverse has launched with the goal of serving as a platform for collaborative living. Schumacher’s vision of local economies moves one step further with Uniiverse, which “is an [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Green Economy Tags: Bike Sharing, Collaborative Consumption, Triple Bottom Line, Video No Comments »
