Green Building and LEED certified projects are sweeping the country and every construction company is claiming to be a leader in this area. However most of them are not “green”¯ companies themselves. Their “green” is about marketing, not sustainability, and is often not backed up by real actions.
Talk is easy and talk is cheap when [...]
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Iran’s seizure of several British sailors has provided yet another example of that regime’s dangerous and unpredictable nature, and the markets have responded. Oil futures have topped $60 a barrel, and some analysts have said that Iran has the leverage to push prices over $100 a barrel if it wants to. True, this [...]
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Last week Peter Barnes wrote for Common Dreams about the potential economic windfall of fighting global warming… if we do it the right way. Like our contributor Tucker Eskew, who wrote on this topic yesterday, Barnes believes that means starting a cap-and-trade system:
Here’s how America can reap this climate dividend. First, we need to [...]
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When former Vice President Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill last week to deliver his climate warning to Congress he dusted off one particular policy recommendation that is better left on the shelf - a tax on carbon emissions.
I don’t know how the sponsors of Terra Rossa feel about it, but taxing our way out [...]
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This passage caught my eye in a recent Wall Street Journal article:
For years, the big criticism of alternative energy was cost: It was too expensive compared with energy based on traditional fuels like coal and natural gas. Even though the fuel was often free - such as wind or the sun’s rays - alternative-energy producers [...]
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Environmental Defense, which co-sponsors this blog, may have a different opinion, but kudos to Florida Congressman Connie Mack for calling out Joe Kennedy’s big wet kiss to Venezuelan strong-man and America-hater Hugo Chavez.
Seems Kennedy was featured in TV ads this winter thanking Citgo, the state-owned (e.g. Chavez owned) oil company in Venezuela, for providing discounted [...]
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Wacky, yes. But an interesting example of using recycled products.
If he needs volunteers to help empty the bottle of their original contents, the crew here at Terra Rossa would gladly put their hands up to help.
By the way, while we found the meaning (”Red Earth”) very appropriate, the inspiration for our blog name actually comes [...]
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I’d like to follow-up on Tucker’s comments on George Will’s recent column. As Will’s piece illustrates, traffic has reached critical mass in urban areas in every region of the country. Commuters are fed up with congestion and long drive-times, and are demanding action. What’s interesting, however, is that there are dissenting viewpoints on the issue, [...]
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George Will wrote an excellent column yesterday about better public policy through private solutions, not taxes. Mr. Will trained his intellect on traffic congestion in populous areas.
Innovative new approaches that integrate private investments, such as toll lanes or privately-operated highways, are much better than simply raising the federal gas tax to solve transportation problems, Mr. [...]
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Considering the economic impact of various energy policies is a vital part of this debate, and one which is commonly ignored by environmentalists.
But… not all goals can be measured in terms of economic value alone. Reducing oil imports is something conservatives can really get behind: The potential economic benefits aside, it’s clearly a boost for [...]
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I recently read that China is poised to overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases by 2008. While this development will deprive the American environmentalist movement of one of its key talking points (that the U.S. is the number one producer of carbon), it will not at all change the [...]
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I recently read a good piece by Dallas Morning News editorial columnist Rod Dreher. My conservative brethren should read it, too.
I can’t say I agree with everything he wrote. But his arguments on why conservatives philosophically should care about climate change are compelling. Here’s one excerpt:
“Philosophical conservatism is attractive in part because [...]
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Last week, contributor Tucker Eskew wrote about Governor Mark Sanford’s op-ed in the Washington Post, a forward-thinking piece about the need for conservatives to engage in the environmental debate, or eventually “find ourselves on the menu.”
The conservative response continues this week with Jonathan Adler’s article in the National Review Online, in which he cautions readers [...]
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