Since this blog purports to be about living a greener life, it seems important to make sure we’ve got a clear grasp of what’s at stake in this whole project and how we as a global community should go about trying to fix the mess we’ve made. Here is the education we’ve been giving ourselves to that end. Lessons will be added as they are created. (Yes, just like when I was a real teacher, I’m making up the curriculum as I go.)
Lesson 1: The Story of Cap and Trade
Lesson 2: Building a Green Economy
Lesson 3: What They Aren’t Telling Us
Lesson 4: In Which We Stop to Think
Lesson 5: Some Nifty New Solutions
Lesson 6: Basically, we are very screwed.
October 1, 2010 at 8:58 pm
[...] 1, 2010 Saw this article over at Grist and thought it would be a perfect Lesson 5 in our quest to understand how to go about fixing the climate crisis. All the suggested approaches are ideas that are new to me–and I also appreciate the [...]