Tax consultant Trevor Baptiste says while the proposed carbon tax could be an important incentive for business, it could, if not implemented carefully, negatively affect business and growth
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Cap and trade can either inhibit or encourage businesses
Tax consultant Trevor Baptiste says while the proposed carbon tax could be an important incentive for business, it could, if not implemented carefully, negatively affect business and growth
Wind farms may be ugly, but they are efficient
Claims that windfarms cannot reduce carbon emissions are "rubbish" and result from critics ignoring the facts and "believing what they want to believe", according to Lord (Adair) Turner, chairman of the government's official independent advisers, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
When your servant becomes your master
The Occupy movement are right in their assertion that it is time to make capital markets our servant and not our master. The question is how. When members of the movement tried to takeover Trafalgar Square, one protester Sarah, 24 was quoted in the Evening Standard as saying: "We are going to stay here until the world changes and we create a better society." Utopianism like that is pretty close to nihilism. Many people agree on the need to restore the moral legitimacy of capitalism. It is important that those who have launched the strongest protests engage with those who have thought hardest about the solutions.
White Paper on Sustainable Capitalism February 2012 - Google Docs
Generation Investment Management's recently released white paper calls for a "paradigm shift" to sustainable capitalism.
Calls for a paradigm shift in sustainable capitalism
Unlike the economy, the planet is by nature sustainable and may offer alternative solutions to transforming our global economic systems, a new report suggests.
Kites Take Wind Power to New Heights
California-based start up Makani Power believes the future of clean, sustainable energy is in the skies. The company is developing kite technology they say harnesses wind power far more efficiently and at half the cost of current wind turbines in use today.
Aluminum jobs threatened by carbon tax
The federal opposition has tried to link possible job losses at Rio Tinto's Bell Bay aluminium smelter in Tasmania to the imminent introduction of Labor's carbon tax.
Sewage to power
Sewage can be used to generate electricity using a new device revealed by scientists on Thursday. It combines a fuel cell with other technologies to convert waste water treatment stations into power plants, which the researchers believe could provide the power for entire water grids. "We certainly could take care of the whole water system: the treating and pumping of water, which currently requires substantial amounts of power," said Prof Bruce Logan at Pennsylvania State University in the US. "We also treated the organic matter much faster." His team's work is published in the journal Science and is "the proof of concept", Logan said. "Our hope now is to optimise the electricity generation as much as possible."
Sustainable palm oil
KUALA LUMPUR: The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) grouping this week will release its inaugural annual 2011 RSPO Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) Growth Interpretation Narrative (2011 GIN) report, which contains critical guidelines on the palm oil fraternity's sensitivity and influence towards sustainability since the RSPO started the certification of CSPO in 2008.
What's a little fraud to save the Earth?
SACRAMENTO – If the theory of man-made global warming were such a self-obvious truth, the result of scientific consensus, then why do its advocates keep committing fraud to advance it? Even more disturbing, why are some writers willing to defend this behavior?
If the theory of man-made global warming were such a self-obvious truth, the result of scientific consensus, then why do its advocates keep committing fraud to advance it?
Is the carbon market a doomed fantasy?
California's political class yearns to be European. Here's some advice for Gov. Jerry Brown and associates: Beware of what you desire. You just may get it. Their latest self-destructive fascination is the lunacy of a carbon trading market. It's part of the still-loonier cap-and-trade scheme to save California from the looniest concept of all, make-believe devastation from manmade global warming. It doesn't get more European than that.
Renewable energy storage legislation introduced in the US Senate
Congressmen Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, and Chris Gibson, R-N.Y., have introduced legislation to give tax breaks for investing in energy storage systems, Thomspon's office announced Thursday.
H.R. 4096, The Storage Technology for Renewable and Green Energy 2012 Act, would provide tax credits to individuals and businesses when they invest in systems that can save excess energy for use during peak demand periods. This reduces electricity bills, enhances the reliability of alternative energy sources, and increases the efficiency and security of the electric grid, Thompson's office said. A companion bill, S.1845, was introduced in the U.S. Senate last fall by Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Susan Collins, R-Maine.
Lessons on farming and energy from collapsed civilizations
Renewable energy technologies and agro-ecological farming represent opportunities to avoid the mistakes of the past.
The beauty of windfarms – in pictures
Modern and impressive, the offshore wind turbines in the Thanet field look like 'monuments to optimism, common sense and human daring', says Jonathan Jones
How the Searaser seawater pump generates electricity
This animation shows how Searaser produces electricity. As the ocean swell moves two buoys up and down, it pumps seawater through a pipe to an onshore turbine. The green energy company Ecotricity, which has a controlling stake in the technology, believes it is potentially a cheaper way of producing electricity than any other form of generation including all fossil fuels
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