Posted in Environment, Fun Facts, Price System on Jul 31st, 2011
According to the National Research Council of Canada: LEED buildings used 18-39% less energy per floor area than their conventional counterparts. However, 28-35% of LEED buildings used more energy than their conventional counterparts. I am sure that LEED building standards are favored by the construction and contractor lobbies as such standards raisethe cost of construction. By the [...]
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Posted in Fun Facts on Jul 30th, 2011
EMF-22 climate models are used to estimate the social cost of carbon … out to the year 2300.
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Posted in Regulation on Jul 29th, 2011
As I drive home for the weekend, I cannot help but think: “wow, how incredible is it that we have had all of these new and innovative American automobile start-up companies during my lifetime.”
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Posted in Government Thuggery on Jul 29th, 2011
These are the same guys that enforce every other “law” – including your precious tax laws, health care laws, environmental laws, and the like. Be sure to watch the video. Police and government brutality on the streets, in prisons, and god-knows where else is the civil rights issue of our time. Yet it receives scant [...]
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Don’t fret folks, I am still plowing my way through the ecology literature. I thought I’d delight you with this short sentiment from Barry Commoner’s The Closing Circle (this quote from p. 37 of the library edition I have): Any major man-made change in a natural system is likely to be detrimental to that system. [...]
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I really try to do my best to read Progressive blogs and to stay away from getting near anything resembling an ad-hominem. With that in mind, I reprint in full today’s post from Scott Sumner, who is always well worth reading (of course, after reading him you will realize how utterly bad your macro education [...]
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Posted in Welfare State on Jul 29th, 2011
When I started here in Rochester, a prime stretch of real estate on the east shore of the Genesee River, walking distance from downtown (where the Blue Cross Arena is, the HQ of the library, the HQ of Blue Cross, Dinosaur BBQ, etc.), this monstrosity (which ran something like 2 or 3 city blocks) was [...]
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Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on Jul 28th, 2011
For about 4 years now I have read nothing but economics, ecology, political economy, history, etc. books. In other words, really serious stuff – most of it becoming a blur to me these days. I will have a week of relaxation coming up and I want to try to get my head into something much [...]
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Posted in Paternalism on Jul 28th, 2011
Here is a simple post from two years ago: And here is what we read in the papers today: For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. In April 2010 the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate the amount of salt that [...]
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Posted in Resources on Jul 28th, 2011
The reason to have clean, renewable, abundant energy is not, as many would like to believe, to save the planet. Heresy! The reason to have clean, renewable, abundant energy is to get really, really, really, really inexpensive energy. In my view it is totally astounding that this is not the focus of the “energy problem.” [...]
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