• An article about Shrinking Footprints at the New Yorker

    New Yorker

    Michael Specter at the New Yorker writes one of the best pieces I’ve read on the dilemmas we face as we try to address global warming. I highly encourage you to read the article.

    The piece covers Britain’s Tesco, a Costco/Sam’s Club-like company, that is attempting to provide carbon footprint information next to the price of the item being sold. While describing Tesco’s carbon accounting methods, he drifts into a lot of fascinating discussions about food and the history of cap-and-trade in a way that can only be done by a columnist for the New Yorker.

    Here are just a few money quotes:

    Stephen Pacala, the director of Princeton University’s Environmental Institute, recently estimated that half of the world’s carbon-dioxide emissions come from just seven hundred million people, about ten per cent of the population.

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  • Shrinking Footprints Headline News–February 5th-March 2nd

    Higher Education
    14. U.S. House Passes Higher Education Sustainability Act
    15. Yale U Develops Sustainable Event Guidelines
    16. Pomona C Buildings Receive LEED Gold
    17. Middlebury switches to 100 percent PCW paper
    18. Macalester U Holds Green Light Bulb Contest
    19. Lewis & Clark College to Install Solar Panels

    U.S. & International News
    20. Brazil launches crackdown against Amazon’s illegal loggers
    21. US ready for ‘binding’ reductions of greenhouse gases – official
    22. Carbon tax focus of British Columbia budget
    23. Despite their eco-rhetoric, some USCAP members are supporting efforts to undermine restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions.
    24. New threat to our way of life: giant pythons
    25. Groups challenge wolf delisting
    26. China, India speed climate change: Australian report
    27. UNEP calls for end to barriers on fast-growing “green economy”