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Green companies win: companies with a commitment to sustainability tend to outperform their peers during the financial crisis
Posted on February 10, 2009A study released yesterday by A.T. Kearney, Inc, titled Green Winners: The Performance of Sustainability-focused Companies in the Financial Crisis, found that in 16 out of 18 industries companies with a commitment to sustainability were the clear leaders in the...
Access to water and sanitation is the largest driver of human development
Posted on February 05, 2009Here's a BBC article I received today. It confirms what I've been told by public health experts studying Haiti and others: access to water and sanitation is the largest driver of human development. Its the key to jump-starting the whole...
Global water scarcity: the blue gold rush....
Posted on February 05, 2009Frank Rijsberman, Program Director at Google.org and formerly Director General of the International Water Management Institute, investigates the global water scarcity problem in an essay published on Boston Review. Global water scarcity A rapidly growing population means that we need...
New 6th Circuit Rapanos decision
Posted on February 05, 2009Chris Brown who practices in the Sixth Circuit saw this 6th Circuit application of the Rapanos case and passed some comments along: U.S. v. CundiffCundiff decision The Court (Judges Martin, McKeague, and a District Judge Collier, with Martin writing for...
Red Queens or Court Jesters: How Species Evolve
Posted on February 05, 2009A review in this month's science by Michael Benton discusses two prominent models of evolution.Science article The abstract and some snippets of the article are below:Evolution may be dominated by biotic factors, as in the Red Queen model, or abiotic...
We all expected this....
Posted on February 05, 2009There is talk in the Oregon legislature of eliminating or streamlining environmental impact assessment/environmental permit requirements on projects related to the Oregon stimulus package. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
What Levels of Warming Might Be Safe?
Posted on February 05, 2009Here's Worldwatch Institute's cut at the necessary emissions reduction. Remember Hansen says we need to go carbon negative and reduce GHG levels to 350 ppm. Despite nearly 20 years of international attention, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise rapidly...
Chartering Sustainable Transnational Corporations
Posted on February 01, 2009This link connects to a paper I just posted on SSRN. I presented the paper at the 6th Colloquium of the IUCN International Academy of Environmental Law in Mexico City in November 2008. I am submitting a short version of...
The Credit Picture's Still Grim
Posted on February 01, 2009A picture is worth a thousand words. Here are charts from the New York Times Economix Blog, circulated by Visualizing economics, showing five indicators of the dimensions of the credit crisis that began last year. Certainly some of the measures...
AMS seminar on sustainable practices and consumption patterns
Posted on January 27, 2009American Meteorological Society's Environmental Science Seminar Series Coming to Grips with Sustainable Practices: Where Do We Go from Here? What are the forces that shaped consumer culture in the U.S.? How does per capita consumption in the U.S. compare with...
Obama: Energy and Environment Directives
Posted on January 27, 2009Here's a source for primary information about Obama's Energy and Environment Directives on the California waiver and the CAFE standards. I searched for this yesterday and couldn't find it -- maybe some of you had the same problem. Today, January...
Oregon's Measure 37: The Paralyzing Effect of Takings Legislation and its Treatment
Posted on January 27, 2009One of my students just published an article on Oregon's battle with takings legislation: David Boulanger, The Battle over Property Rights in Oregon: Measures 37 and 49 and the Need for Sustainable Land Use Planning, 45 Willamette L Rev 313...
Choose the Best Answer: Organizing Climate Change Negotiation in the Obama Administration
Posted on January 27, 2009Northwestern University Law Review has published an interesting essay on who should lead the US negotiating team on climate change. Professor Zasloff suggests the US Trade Representative. My immediate reaction to the question is Carol Browner or Hillary Clinton, but...
The War on Bottled Water
Posted on January 26, 2009People are starting to get it: tap water was named one of the top 10 food trends of 2008 (Time article), one of the top 10 green stories by Grist (Grist article), and Zagat says tap water is in and...
Obama directs reconsideration of California auto emission standard waiver and raising CAFE standards to 35 mpg
Posted on January 26, 2009President Obama announced today that he had directed EPA to reconsider California's waiver application under Title II of the Clean Air Act, which allows it to set stricter limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and trucks. If the California waiver...
Energy and Environment Investments in Obama's Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
Posted on January 24, 2009Here are the items in Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that directly affect energy and environment: renewable energy; smart electricity grid; weatherizing homes; clean energy private sector finance; highway and bridge infrastructure replacement projects and mass transit projects; water...
And the winner is......
Posted on January 24, 2009Way back on Election Day I made my pronostications about the Green Team. The most important omissions -- a energy and environment czar and the CEQ chair. I didn't know about the plan to have a top policy advisor, although...
The Obama Administration's Energy and Environment Agenda
Posted on January 23, 2009ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT White House link The energy challenges our country faces are severe and have gone unaddressed for far too long. Our addiction to foreign oil doesn't just undermine our national security and wreak havoc on our environment...
Let Clean Water Flow
Posted on January 23, 2009Here's my church's video to launch our 2009 Drink Water for Life lenten challenge. If you benefit from the work I do on this blog, please, please, please......take the challenge or find another way to contribute to organizations that do...
Worldwatch Climate Symposium online
Posted on January 22, 2009Here's a good climate change overview for class: Watch the State of the World 2009 Washington Symposium On January 15, leading thinkers, scientists, and policymakers convened in Washington, D.C. to discuss the significance of 2009 for the Earth's climate...
Final Action on All Proposed Rules Suspended Pending Legal and Policy Review
Posted on January 22, 2009Earthjustice reported: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Tuesday sent a memo to the heads of all executive departments and agencies, ordering a stop to all pending regulations until a legal and policy review can be conducted by the...
Obama issues Executive Order regarding presidential records
Posted on January 22, 2009President Obama issues executive order allowing invocation of executive privilege only by President when either the Attorney General or the Counsel to the President believes invocation is justified. Executive Order -- Presidential Records By the authority vested in me as...
Obama issues Executive Order closing revolving door
Posted on January 22, 2009President Obama has issued an executive order tightening the ethics rules that apply to presidential appointees. Link The full text appears below: Executive Order -- Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel By the authority vested in me as President by...
Antarctic warming over larger area than previously believed
Posted on January 22, 2009Today Nature published correspondence reporting a study by Steig and colleagues showing that much of the Antarctic ice-sheet has been warming since 1957. Previous studies had only documented warming in a small area of Antarctica. Obviously, if a greater area...
Arctic Circle -- check it out
Posted on January 21, 2009Here's a great website for anyone exploring the oil rush or effects of global warming in the Arctic Arctic Circle natural resources link My students explored the issue of Who Owns the Arctic a bit more than a year ago...
Another agenda-setting piece: Green America
Posted on January 20, 2009I like this agenda -- some straight-forward, not at all novel, ideas that resonate with me. Green America link Solutions from the Green Economy January 15, 2008 Everyone now understands that the economy is broken. While many name the mortgage...
And we ask it in Christ's name....
Posted on January 20, 2009Here's a letter from the US Conference of the World Council of Churches to President Obama, seeking to help set the Presidential agenda. From the inaugural speech, his agenda is consistent with that of the faith communities represented, but thankfully...
Nourish the Hungry
Posted on January 20, 2009Greenwire reported on the Madrid meeting next week that will be examining progress on addressing the worldwide food crisis -- where one of every seven people in the world is hungry. What a wonderful time to begin to make a...
Most of the green team confirmed today: Jackson, Sutley, and Clinton remain
Posted on January 20, 2009E & E News reported: The Senate unanimously confirmed seven of President Barack Obama's Cabinet picks today, including Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, but postponed debate on his nominees to lead the...
Visitors from Mozambique and Inaugural Awe
Posted on January 20, 2009Today I had the pleasure as Director of our law school's Certificate Program in Law and Government to host two visitors from Mozambique through the International Leadership Visitor Program funded by the State Department. This program focuses on bringing emerging...
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