Tuesday, April 14, 2009

A Climate Change Bill: it is late, but it has arrived

Obama is drafting a climate change bill, finally! The climate bill establishes a cap-and-trade system for CO2, an ambiguous issue thus far is how many of the permits for emissions trading will be auctioned off and how many will be given away. This piece from MotherJones explores the subject.

A short article on how when industrial agriculture has to pay for externalities it is not cheaper than organic agriculture.

As money dwindles for investors people that use money to promote causes (ex: environmental, justice, poverty reduction) are less active. The economist gives an interesting article on the subject.

Climate Change will effect everything, even national parks in the US. The CSMonitor reports.

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