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Taking Korea’s Green Growth Vision Global

Korea’s green growth agenda, the focus of a recent post, marked a significant shift for an advanced economy once focused on growth at all costs to a new paradigm of sustainable development, improving the environment, and green technologies.  Korea’s aspirations for its green growth vision were not limited to just within its own borders, however. [...]

EPA Proposes Cleaner Fuels and Cars Standard

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After receiving feedback from stakeholders including oil refiners and auto manufacturers, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed standards in March that could greatly reduce vehicle pollution and increase public health. Passing the mandate, which would go into effect in 2017, would come at a price to consumers, but the EPA states that the benefits could outweigh [...]

From Paradox to Paradigm: Korea’s Green Growth Approach

Consider the implications of each of the world’s major economies consciously shifting their growth paradigms towards a model of sustainable development, one in which addressing climate change and environmental challenges while pursuing economic growth is not paradoxical or mutually exclusive.  This is a daunting task, and while leaders in economies both developed and emerging talk [...]

U.S. Energy Independence is a Delusion

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Increasing America’s domestic energy production is something most of us can agree on, but it seems there is a fork in the road as to how to get there. Some argue we should rely on the United States’ vast deposits of shale, coal and other natural resources, while others believe renewable energy from wind and [...]

Book Review: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Tar Sands

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Although written in 2008, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent feels like something that could’ve been written yesterday. Extremely biased and one-sided, at times bordering on vitriolic, Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands’ author, makes a strong argument against the development of the Athabaskan tar sands. While this is a losing battle if [...]

Defining Sustainability and Sustainable Development

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This is an open letter to any and all companies, organizations, governments, schools, or other miscellaneous groups considering sustainability as part of their work; I hope this includes everyone. Dear Organization X, Please consider making sustainability a central component of your future plans if you have not done so already. For any group that has [...]

Movie Review: Chow Down

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I received an email asking me to watch and review a movie titled Chow Down (2010).  After reading the brief synopsis, I decided it was up my alley.  Chow Down is available on Hulu for free, which is a really convenient way to reach the public.  This is another movie that discusses our current American [...]

2014 Vehicle Technologies Budget Centers on Developing Hybrids and EVs

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The 2014 Vehicle Technologies budget proposal, submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), requests $240 million to support R&D efforts for batteries and electric drive technology. The allotment is a $30 million jump over the amount requested for fiscal year 2013, and hopefully will build on the program’s string of notable [...]

IEA: Despite Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions Still at Same Level

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports today that despite the impressive increase in renewable energy – energy produced by wind is up 42% and solar 19% from 2011 to 2012 alone – carbon emissions have not abated worldwide. As relayed on Marketplace Morning Report today, rapidly industrializing economies, as well as Europe which has resorted [...]

Hues of Green in Korea

South Korea’s capital city of Seoul, including its surrounding urban area sprawling across the wide Han River, is home to more than 25 million people and by some estimates the world’s second largest metropolis.  It is also a scant 52 kilometers south of the world’s most heavily fortified border–the Demilitarized Zone separating South Korea from North [...]

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