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Serious people are proposing that the Federal government establish … a Federal Department of Cities. We’re doomed. Like, that’s a great idea. After all, local urban planners have failed to revive their cities after a century of “Local Departments of Cities” have operated. And believe me, spend some time in your city’s library and read […]

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This exciting event may be coming to your campus too: Recycle-Mania.Here are my favorite parts:  there will be a Ban the Bottle Panel hosted by Dining’s Team Green … Also throughout the competition, EcoReps will be on the lookout for students, faculty, and staff to be caught “green handed”! You can get caught and win […]

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Fa La La La La La La La … Doink

One of my early New Year’s Resolutions was to stop reading the U of R sustainability blog. But that task is made more difficult when my university actively promotes it. In fact, every so often in the morning email that the University sends to faculty and staff, which includes things like celebrating our Nobel Prize […]

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Matt Ridley does a little bit more investigating on something I’ve been yawping about for a long time now: climate models are no better than macro-econometric models, and furthermore, there is absolutely NO consensus on what the magnitude (or possibly even the sign) of climate feedbacks is: How can there be such disagreement about climate […]

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It is a veritable religious belief that people look at “pollution” and identify its existence as “bad.” Never mind me lecturing you on the economics of pollution – which would start with a study of property rights and how weak or non-existence property rights are the only way “pollution” can even exist in the first […]

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My new default position on gleaning information from marketing messages in the political realm is to put a negative sign in front of claims. The amount of ideology embedded in an organization is inversely proportion to its claims of “avoiding ideological junk.” The amount of partisanship is inversely proportional to how much non-partisan-ism it proclaims […]

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I am sympathetic to the argument that the US government and state governments have in place various schemes to subsidize the oil and coal and gas industries. And I agree with the environmental community who wishes to see these subsidies, tax breaks, favorable regulations, etc. removed. But let me ask a question. The answer to […]

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GMO crops are safe and promote a better environment (via less land use and less pesticide and herbicide use). There is almost no research out there to confirm any of the outrageous claims of opponents. The best opponents can do is link to fancy, slick, flyers from anti-"E"nviornmental organizations (that's my new name for them) […]

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Sunday Morning Reflection

This is a Sunday post for a reason. Plus I simply don’t have the energy anymore to talk about it: The question of “would the money spent on these projects be put to better use elsewhere for student well-being” is really a matter of opinion. Yes, a matter of opinion. Of course. It’s just that […]

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Has anything improved public health as much as natural gas has since 2008?

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