Environmental and Urban Economics

MARCH 14, 2021

I have moved my climate change economics blogging over to Substack. In February 2021, we published our urban economics book ; You can read chapter One and watch several relevant urban economic growt h videos posted here. Next week, Yale University Press will publish my new book This book has already won a prize and you can learn more here. I am eager to market both books.

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Successful Green

MARCH 14, 2021

Electricity providers have a simple way of encouraging households and companies to procure power from sustainable sources. This can help lower CO2 emissions. Private households, but also self-?employed people and SMEs, are more likely... The post Switching to green energy default can have a lasting effect appeared first on successful GREEN.

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Environment, Law, and History

MARCH 14, 2021

The Journal for the History of Knowledge recently published an article by Sebastian Felten, "Sustainable Gains: Dutch Investment and Bureaucratic Rationality in Eighteenth-Century Saxon Mines". The abstract: A late-eighteenth-century encounter between Dutch merchants and cameralist Saxon officials is used to argue two related points. First, the history of knowledge can help us rethink hierarchical power structures like the Saxon mining bureaucracy.

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MGKF Law

MARCH 14, 2021

The Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requires federal agencies to produce certain documents upon request to the general public unless one of nine exemptions applies. FOIA’s fifth exemption “protects from disclosure documents generated during an agency’s deliberations about a policy, as opposed to documents that embody or explain a policy that the agency adopts.” On March 4, 2021, in United States Fish and Wildlife Service et al. v.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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