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Costs of Inaction on Key Environmental Challenges | OECD
Based on a literature review, this OECD report suggests that the economic costs of failing to introduce environmental policies can be considerable.
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Juliet Schor: Forget Commercialism | New Dream
It’s good to spend on businesses that are truly sustainable, especially those that are expanding the green economy.
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Study considers how to make cents of the Sound | Seattle PI
If the ecosystems that surround the region's cities had a price tag, what would it be?
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Gasoline Price Floor | U. Cal. Energy Institute
A gasoline surcharge that adjusts inversely with the price of oil will tend to stabilize gasoline prices while reducing California greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Tragedy - 40 Years Later
The dilemma, following Garrett Hardin's reassessment, is not that the atmosphere is a commons, but that it is an unmanaged commons.
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New Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets | USDA
USDA: Without financial incentives, these ecosystem services may be lost as privately-owned lands are sold or converted to development.
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Frank Ackerman: Climate Economics | AlterNet
Here are the four bumper stickers for a better climate economics.
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Walden Bello: The Coming Capitalist Consensus | Foreign Policy in Focus
Progressives should boldly aspire once again to paradigms of social organization that unabashedly aim for equality and participatory democratic control of both the national economy and the global economy as prerequisites for collective and individual liberation.
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Pathways to a Low-Carbon Economy | McKinsey
The purpose of this study is to provide a uniform set of data that can serve as a starting point when discussing how best to achieve emissions reductions.
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Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment
The solution to environmental degradation lies in such institutional reforms as would compel private users of environmental resources to take account of the social costs of their actions.
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The Flawed Foundations of General Equilibrium
In the case of economics, the ivory tower casts a long shadow over social and political life.
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Not Wrong, Just Incomplete
I find an appealing sense of graciousness in this phrase: "not wrong, just incomplete."
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Taking Responsibility for the Commons | NYT Economix Blog
Rational consumers have it easy. We pay our money and we make our choices. Rational citizens have it hard.
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Hazel Henderson: The New Financiers | Ethical Markets
The new financiers will show why the old financiers and central bankers can no longer have a monopoly on money and its creation.
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Woody Tasch: Slow Money Interview
Real diversity is only going to be maintained if we push the money out and truly decentralize smaller-scale ways.
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Frank Ackerman: Stern Advice | Nature Reports
The United States has just completed an eight-year experiment studying whether local, private and non-profit initiatives can achieve significant emission reductions in the absence of national leadership; the answer turns out to be 'no'.
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Eric Zencey: Mr. Soddy’s Ecological Economy | NYT
Soddy’s fifth proposal, the only one that remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom, was to stop banks from creating money (and debt) out of nothing.
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E3 Network
The E3 Network develops and applies economic arguments for active protection of human health and the natural environment.
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Paul Krugman: An Affordable Salvation | NYT
[W]e can afford a strong climate change policy. And committing ourselves to such a policy might actually help us in our current economic predicament.
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Prosperity Without Growth | UK Sustainable Development Commission
Peter Victor is an economist who has run models of how the Canadian economy would react to the end of growth.
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