NEW YORK - An aggressive shift
towards renewable power generation and energy effiency could save the
world from the most devastating impacts of climate change, and at the
same time create a multi-billion-dollar industry and save trillions of
dollars in future fuel costs, experts say.
OAKLAND, CA - Van Jones is someone who makes you feel like an underachiever, no matter if you're a NASA scientist or a captain of industry. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1993, Jones established Oakland's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which aims to cut youth violence and incarceration rates.
As the most serious economic crisis in
80 years rolls across
the planet, financial panic has shoved
food shortages, public-health emergencies, and ecological disasters
into the
background. With fantastic fortunes at
stake, the number-one priority of governments and businesses must be
economic
growth; those "green" initiatives announced not long ago with such
fanfare have
already been deferred or forgotten.
BARCELONA, Spain - The worst financial crisis since the 1930s may be a chance to put price tags on nature in a radical economic rethink to protect everything from coral reefs to rainforests, environmental experts say.
Farmers know the value of land from the amount of crops they can produce but large parts of the natural world -- such as wetlands that purify water, oceans that produce fish or trees that soak up greenhouse gases -- are usually viewed as "free."
OAKLAND, Calif. - California's energy-efficiency policies created nearly 1.5 million jobs from 1977 to 2007, while eliminating fewer than 25,000, according to a study to be released Monday.
The study, conducted by David Roland-Holst, an economist at the Center for Energy, Resources and Economic Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley, found that while the state's policies lowered employee compensation in the electric power industry by an estimated $1.6 billion over that period, it improved compensation in the state over all by $44.6 billion.
