Carbon Caps With Universal Dividends: Equitable, Ethical & Politically...
A 2008 policy brief from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance concludes that universal dividends are a critically important tool to create the political will and public acceptance for a carbon cap....
View ArticleDavid Morris speaks on the Challenge of Going Green in a Recession
On Sunday, April 26, David Morris addressed a crowd hosted by the DFL Education Foundation, on the challenges of developing renewable energy in a time of economic turmoil. His remarks follow: I...
View ArticleILSR’s Minnesota Carbon Tax Shift Archives
In the 1990s, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and other energy activists in Minnesota undertook an effort to get Minnesota to adopt a billion dollar “tax shift” that would have raised the cost of...
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Why Does the Much-Touted Climate Bill Look Like It Was Stolen From the...
This is an expanded version of the article that was originally published by Alternet “Command and control” is a military term the Republicans long ago appropriated to caricature and condemn Democratic...
View ArticleNeighborhood Stores: An Overlooked Strategy for Fighting Global Warming
What I find most striking about my mother-in-law’s memories of the neighborhood where I live, and where she spent her childhood in the 1940s, is how many businesses our little residential section of...
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New Proposed Climate Change Bill in Washington Is Simpler and More Equitable
On Sept. 22, in a speech to 100 world leaders gathered at the United Nations to discuss climate change, President Barack Obama declared the U.S. “determined to act.” But at the same time, word began to...
View ArticleInstead of Cap and Trade, Cap and Dividend
A new and vastly improved climate change policy has come out of nowhere to capture the imagination of state and national policymakers: “Cap and dividend.” It works like this: Step one, impose a carbon...
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Miles Driven for Shopping Continues to Climb, But Pace Slows
Newly released data from the U.S. Department of Transportation show that the average American household is driving less than it did in 2001. But, while the number of miles logged going to work, social...
View ArticleCan you say ‘Sprawl’? Walmart’s Biggest Climate Impact Goes Ignored
This is the sixth article in a special series written by ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell and published by Grist. You can read the whole series here. Earlier this year, the New Jersey Sierra Club and the...
View ArticleWalmart spends big to help anti-environment candidates
This is the seventh article in a special 9-part series written by ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell and published by Grist. You can read the whole series here. In 2006, Walmart made headlines when its vice...
View ArticleCarbon Caps With Universal Dividends: Equitable, Ethical & Politically...
A 2008 policy brief from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance concludes that universal dividends are a critically important tool to create the political will and public acceptance for a carbon cap....
View ArticleDavid Morris speaks on the Challenge of Going Green in a Recession
On Sunday, April 26, David Morris addressed a crowd hosted by the DFL Education Foundation, on the challenges of developing renewable energy in a time of economic turmoil. His remarks follow: I...
View ArticleILSR’s Minnesota Carbon Tax Shift Archives
In the 1990s, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and other energy activists in Minnesota undertook an effort to get Minnesota to adopt a billion dollar “tax shift” that would have raised the cost of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Does the Much-Touted Climate Bill Look Like It Was Stolen From the...
This is an expanded version of the article that was originally published by Alternet “Command and control” is a military term the Republicans long ago appropriated to caricature and condemn Democratic...
View ArticleNeighborhood Stores: An Overlooked Strategy for Fighting Global Warming
What I find most striking about my mother-in-law’s memories of the neighborhood where I live, and where she spent her childhood in the 1940s, is how many businesses our little residential section of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Proposed Climate Change Bill in Washington Is Simpler and More Equitable
On Sept. 22, in a speech to 100 world leaders gathered at the United Nations to discuss climate change, President Barack Obama declared the U.S. “determined to act.” But at the same time, word began to...
View ArticleInstead of Cap and Trade, Cap and Dividend
A new and vastly improved climate change policy has come out of nowhere to capture the imagination of state and national policymakers: “Cap and dividend.” It works like this: Step one, impose a carbon...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Miles Driven for Shopping Continues to Climb, But Pace Slows
Newly released data from the U.S. Department of Transportation show that the average American household is driving less than it did in 2001. But, while the number of miles logged going to work, social...
View ArticleCan you say ‘Sprawl’? Walmart’s Biggest Climate Impact Goes Ignored
Even as Walmart has been hyping its supposed environmental epiphany, it has continued to unroll vast, low-rise supercenters at breakneck speed. Since 2005, Walmart has added more than 1,100 new...
View ArticleWalmart spends big to help anti-environment candidates
Over the last decade, Walmart has emerged as one of the country’s largest funders of political campaigns. Its dollars skew heavily in favor of candidates who routinely vote against the environment. …...
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