National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/nap-cgi/report.cgi?record_id=12904&type=pdfxsum [WWF blog] It concludes: “The chemistry of the ocean is changing at an unprecedented rate and magnitude due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions; the rate of change exceeds any known to have occurred for at least the past hundreds of thousands of years. Unless anthropogenic CO2 emissions are substantially curbed, or … Continue reading »
Posted on April 25, 2010 …
Transportation’s Role in Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
US Dept. of Transportation http://tinyurl.com/26kqehb (605 pages) [From press release] A number of strategies can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, such as using low-carbon fuels, increasing vehicle fuel economy, improving system efficiency and reducing travel that involves high levels of carbon emissions, according to a report released on April 22, 2010 … Continue reading »
Social Psychology and Environmental Economics : a New Look at Ex Ante Corrections of Biased Preference Evaluation
Maison des Sciences Économiques du Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne / by Nicolas Jacquemet, Alexander G. James, Stéphane Luchini and Jason F. Shogren ftp://mse.univ-paris1.fr/pub/mse/CES2010/10016.pdf [Abstract] … Much has been learned [about] how environmental policy can use incentives to drive individual [behavior]. Among the many examples, preference elicitation is the most discussed case in which incentives … Continue reading »
Environmental Taxes and Economic Growth : Evidence from Panel Causality Tests
University of Bath, Dept. of Economics / by Bruce Morley and Sabah Abdullah http://opus.bath.ac.uk/18528/1/0410.pdf [Abstract] The aim of this study is to determine the causal relationship between environmental taxes and economic growth, using different measures of environmental taxes with GDP as well as adjusted net savings. A panel of European countries and a separate panel … Continue reading »
Boston Regional Challenge : Examining the Cost and Impacts of Housing and Transportation
Urban Land Institute (ULI) Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing in partnership with the Center for Housing Policy (CHP) and the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) http://bostonregionalchallenge.org/the-report/ [From press release] The analysis finds that the typical household in the study area spends upwards of $22,000 annually on housing, which represents roughly 35 percent of the median … Continue reading »
The Road to Livability : How State Departments of Transportation are Using Road investments to improve Community Livability
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) http://downloads.transportation.org/LR-1.pdf [Docuticker] The U.S. Department of Transportation has indicated that livability is among the Administration’s top priorities for future transportation funding. Soon it will be up to Congress to determine how “livability” will fit into the next multiyear transportation authorization legislation. As the 40th anniversary of … Continue reading »
Local Area Personal Income, 2008
US Bureau of Economic Analysis http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/lapi/2010/pdf/lapi0410.pdf [Docuticker] Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released estimates of personal income at the county level for 2008 based on newly available source data. The percent change from 2007 to 2008 in county personal income ranged from -48 percent in Slope County, North Dakota to 54 percent in … Continue reading »
Turning Green to Gold, Safely
US Dept. of Labor http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/opa/OPA20100511.htm (press release) Full Report [Docuticker] This Earth Day, the U.S. Department of Labor is turning green jobs into golden opportunities safely by working with its community, labor and industry partners to prepare the workforce for high growth fields while building a greener planet. The Labor Department today released a report … Continue reading »
