The Skinny on Carbon Tax
What, another tax? Carbon Tax versus Cap-and-Trade: the quick on each. Borrowing phraseology from The Week Magazine, the below may be seen as ‘Boring but Important’ and also…critical at this moment in history. Perhaps, more relevant, given the momentum in Oregon to vote on some form of a Cap-and-Trade for Industry during the legislature’s short-session […]
Extreme Weather and Water Scarcity
The Summer of 2017 We are seeing quite a bit of extreme weather conditions here in the U.S. in just a short two-week period. I’m referring to Category 4 Hurricane Harvey that made landfall on August 25, devastating downtown and surrounding Houston, Texas; the scorching heatwaves that have been roiling parts of the U.S., most […]
A New Carbon Platform: Ethereum?
The Skinny on Fossil Fuel Fossil fuels are carbon energies. Those carbon energies are gas, natural gas, oil and coal. Don’t forget: shale gas (a.k.a. horizontal drilling and hydro fracking) is also included in this mix. So, when we hear talk about carbon taxation, that’s what it is referring to: our use of gas, natural gas, oil, and coal […]
A Preference for Positive or Negative Feedback Loops
Systems Thinking and Tackling Complexity It is important to understand a concept of systems thinking as it applies to planetary climate change. That concept is ‘feedback loops’. Systems thinking is an analytical approach to understanding complex problems within a defined system (e.g., the federal government, a city, a corporation, a family unit) where interactions within the system […]