Tag Archives: climate change policy
Stimulus and response in the EU ETS
We use a carbon tax or an emission trading scheme to stimulate investment in clean technology. The logic of this idea is based on several steps: we charge people for emitting CO2 and as a result some will find ways … Continue reading
Priming as policy: forest schools and nuclear power
It takes five years to educate a child from the age of five to ten. It takes between ten and twenty years to build a nuclear power station in a democracy. We should consider carefully the implications of this in … Continue reading
Prosperity, possessions and flying
In a recent article published in the Guardian, L Hunter Lovins describes how a new narrative might be emerging about the economy. http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/10/challenge-narrative-possessions-equal-prosperity In the rich world we are realising that we don’t need possessions to achieve prosperity, happiness and … Continue reading
Save the planet: laugh at a Porsche.
Chris Rose’s book “What Makes People Tick” describes the worlds and values of three kinds of people: Settlers, Prospectors and Pioneers. Settlers are conservative people who don’t like change and want security; prospectors are get up and go achievers who … Continue reading
Bringing the Med to Shropshire
One neat way of cutting down on travel cost and the associate environmental problems is being demonstrated today in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. An itinerant Mediterranean market is visiting, as it does twice a year. The rest of the year they tour … Continue reading
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