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Sustainability: Challenges with Solving the Climate Change Problem
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A blog devoted to helping guide clear thinking and better choice in the area of social, environmental, and economic decision-making. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Challenges with Solving the Climate Change Problem. Here's an analogy. Let's say you have a bakery and another bakery is going to open. Yet, there doesn't seem to be enough people around to support both bakeries. What to do? Where's the contraction going to occur? How much is going to occur? A third problem,. These three specific challenges com...
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Sustainability: Economics and Sustainability
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A blog devoted to helping guide clear thinking and better choice in the area of social, environmental, and economic decision-making. Friday, December 4, 2009. One key aspect of a sustainability focus is explicitly recognizing that decisions are driven by three somewhat competing objectives: Profit - People - Planet. One implication of the T-B-L is that choice is no longer driven by economics alone. The profitability of a particular decision is no longer the driving force behind the choice. In one...In cl...
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Sustainability: 2009-11-29
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A blog devoted to helping guide clear thinking and better choice in the area of social, environmental, and economic decision-making. Friday, December 4, 2009. One key aspect of a sustainability focus is explicitly recognizing that decisions are driven by three somewhat competing objectives: Profit - People - Planet. One implication of the T-B-L is that choice is no longer driven by economics alone. The profitability of a particular decision is no longer the driving force behind the choice. In one...In cl...
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Sustainability: Can Economics Address Climate Change as part of Sustainability?
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A blog devoted to helping guide clear thinking and better choice in the area of social, environmental, and economic decision-making. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Can Economics Address Climate Change as part of Sustainability? As an economist, I'm interested in exploring the possibility that economics can guide policy on climate change. Though, I'm skeptical that it's up to that challenge. Climate change is perhaps the ultimate common-pool resource. For a paper on this topic. Economics of climate change.
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Sustainability: 2009-12-27
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A blog devoted to helping guide clear thinking and better choice in the area of social, environmental, and economic decision-making. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Challenges with Solving the Climate Change Problem. Here's an analogy. Let's say you have a bakery and another bakery is going to open. Yet, there doesn't seem to be enough people around to support both bakeries. What to do? Where's the contraction going to occur? How much is going to occur? A third problem,. These three specific challenges com...
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Sustainability: 2009-11-22
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A blog devoted to helping guide clear thinking and better choice in the area of social, environmental, and economic decision-making. Wednesday, November 25, 2009. The focus of this blog. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Gosh, what happened to my budget? Explain the theoretical principles of production to explain . Economics of climate change. Subscribe Now: Feed Icon. Subscribe in a reader. The focus of this blog. View my complete profile.
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Sustainability: The number 350 and Climate Change
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A blog devoted to helping guide clear thinking and better choice in the area of social, environmental, and economic decision-making. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. The number 350 and Climate Change. Here is a news story. I came across that helps put the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference in perspective. Depending on what hour you listen to the news bulletin, the UN climate negotiations. The third number: 4%. That's how much the US is offering to cut its emissions. From their 1990 levels by 2020. Sci...
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Sustainability: What does the number 350 mean?
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A blog devoted to helping guide clear thinking and better choice in the area of social, environmental, and economic decision-making. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. What does the number 350 mean? I also had this question. Here's a link. I found very helpful. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Gosh, what happened to my budget? Explain the theoretical principles of production to explain . Economics of climate change. Subscribe Now: Feed Icon. Subscribe in a reader.
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Sustainability: What does sustainability mean post Copenhagen?
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A blog devoted to helping guide clear thinking and better choice in the area of social, environmental, and economic decision-making. Monday, December 28, 2009. What does sustainability mean post Copenhagen? I grappling with the role of sustainability post-Copenhagen. It just strikes me as so much fiddling while Rome literally burns. While Obama put a happy face on agreements reached there, I can't imagine how people can see it as anything but a dismal failure. CO2 emission per capita. Lead to odd ranking...