Tom Rand is an Action Canada Fellow and Cleantech Venture Capitalist. His Celsias project is The Hotel Diaries. When philosopher Francis Fukuyama wrote that liberal democracy heralds the ‘end of history', neo-conservatives loved the idea, because then we could get on with business. It was not the lofty notions of ... keep reading
Written by Tom Rand this month, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance, Global Dimming, Industry, Philosophy & Religion, Politics
Here on Celsias, we like to focus on the positive, highlighting solutions to the climate crisis. In fact, that is why Celsias was created. The idea has always been that people would read the blog and get inspired, then go create an action or project, register it on Celsias, and ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant this month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Finance, Industry, Politics, Pollution, Transport (2 comments)
Tom Rand is an Action Canada Fellow and Cleantech Venture Capitalist. His Celsias project is The Hotel Diaries. Remember Victory Bonds? Citizens buying bonds backed by the government to help win a war? There's a new bond in town - the Green Bond: a bond to fight climate change. Green ... keep reading
Written by Tom Rand last month, about Clean Technologies, Consumerism, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Finance
In 1993, the first emissions trading program, Los Angeles' Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), began to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions in the worst air basin in the U.S. Designed by California's South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), RECLAIM, according to the Environmental Protection ... keep reading
Written by Gina-Marie Cheeseman last month, about Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Finance, Industry, Politics
In order to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to levels that would not further imperil earth's climate, the globe as a whole will have to spend $45 trillion dollars, according to the International Energy Agency's 2008 report. This expenditure would reportedly produce a 50% reduction of CO2 emissions ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June, about Architecture, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Finance, Industry, Nuclear, Politics, Population, Transport, Water
In an innovative funding strategy, $20 million of Madagascar's national debt has been channeled into conservation, the WWF announced recently. Rather than pay the sum back to the French government, the former colonial power has agreed to re-direct it into conserving the island's remarkable wildlife. Madagascar is a ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams in June, about Environment & Wildlife, Finance, Politics
Next month, leaders from the Group of Eight (G-8) comprising Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States will spend three days in Toyako, Hokkaido at the G-8 Summit to discuss issues of mutual concern. With climate change topping the summit’s agenda, Prime Minister ... keep reading
Written by Shom Teoh in June, about Climate Change, Consumerism, Finance, Politics, Weather
In the U.S., the U.N. is the favorite villain of right wingers, jingoists and conspiracy theorists. For international progressives, the villains of late (besides the entire Bush administration) have been the WTO, the IMF, and perhaps, the most egregious of them all, the World Bank. Now 121 organizations ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant in June, about Coal & Oil, Finance, Politics, Weather
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins The World Bank's proposed Climate Investment Funds (CIF) are stirring controversy among governments and NGOs, largely because of the Bank's record as the world's largest multilateral lender for fossil fuels. NGOs are especially concerned that the top-down, donor-driven funds will conflict ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts in June, about Finance
California's Bay Area Quality Management District Board of Directors voted 15 to 1 to implement a tax on companies that emit 4.4 cents per ton of carbon dioxide. The tax is the first of its kind in the U.S. The tax affects nine Bay Area counties, including ... keep reading
Written by Gina-Marie Cheeseman in June, about Carbon Trading, Finance, Industry, Politics, Weather
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