Category Archives: Climate Change

The Future of Economics and Society as We Know It

3 Comments Posted by on August 8, 2011

Climate Change, Energy, Electric Cars and the Path to a Sustainable Future PowerPoint of Talk by Rob Kaulfuss, 4/12/2012 at MCC Richard Heinberg delivers a clear and powerful message on the urgent need for the world to begin the transition to a sustainable future. He takes a big picture perspective on the interconnectedness of economics, energy, the [...]

Capitalism, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Oil Prices, Peak Oil, Philosophy, Psychology & Sociology, Public Policy, Sustainability, Uncategorized , , , , ,

ANTHROPOCENE: A New Era of Human Civilization on Earth

1 Comment Posted by on June 1, 2011

From The Economist cover story of May 28, 2011: “Humans have changed the way the world works. Now they have to change the way they think about it, too.” Human civilization evolved during a period of relatively stable climate over the last 10,000 years. With a rapidly developing and industrialized world, now at about 7 [...]

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Revised Climate Change Presentation

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 6, 2010

Dr. David Heimann of the Green Group Boston has made some updates to his slideshow on Climate Change and Economic Opportunities. I’ve attached the revised document in this post.GW-talk-GGB-1

Capitalism, Climate Change, Economic Updates, Energy, Environment, Markets

Presentation on Climate Change and Employment

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 9, 2010

The next installment in a series of presentations created by Green Group Boston members is a presentation by Dr. David Heimann, who has held positions in government, industry, and academia, performing research and activities in reliability modeling, simulation, database management systems, probabilistic modeling, software analysis, and software process improvement. Possessing a received a B.S. in [...]

Climate Change, Economic Updates, Energy, Environment

Sean O’Reilly’s Wind Energy Production Presentation

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 3, 2010

SeanO’Reilly Wind Energy Production As states and regions increasingly embrace onshore and offshore wind energy to adhere to renewable portfolio standards, Sean O’Reilly wanted to share the presentation he gave to the Green Group Boston several weeks back. His presentation discusses both community and industrial scale wind energy production, including aspects of design and implementation, [...]

Climate Change, Economic Updates, Energy, Environment, Public Policy

Green Group Boston Introduction

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 20, 2010

Greetings BeyondEconomics.org readers! Prof. Robert Kaulfuss has been gracious enough to allow the members of the Green Group Boston to post on his website. On behalf of the members of the Green Group Boston – an academic resource and networking group for the green economy – we’d like to sincerely thank him. In the coming [...]

Climate Change, Energy, Uncategorized

The Senate Climate Bill

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 25, 2010

If it was not already clear that Congress is our greatest national security threat, here is more evidence. From the NY Times Graham Pulls Support for Major Senate Climate Bill The article mentions that Senator Lindsey Graham has voiced his outrage over reports that Harry Reid and the White House are planning to take on [...]

Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Government, Issues, Politics, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Unconventional Natural Gas: A Game Changer?

1 Comment Posted by on March 17, 2010

Perhaps. You may have heard about hydraulic fracturing (“fracing”, pronounced “fracking”) and horizontal drilling, a technique to release natural gas trapped in hardy shale-rock formations. These sources of natual gas around the world have been known about for some time but not thought to be economically viable. This article from The Economist has major implications [...]

Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized

Bill Gates, Climate Change, & Conservation

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 23, 2010

In a recent article in The Huffington Post, Bill gates suggests that we should focus on innovation rather than conservation in order to bring about the CO2 reductions needed to stave off climate change. I think he does make some good points here. Why We Need Innovation, Not Just Insulation (1/20/2010) If the goal is [...]

Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Politics

Climate Change Update

5 Comments Posted by on January 7, 2010

Copenhagen Postmortems from the Becker-Posner Blog The Copenhagen Debacle: Where Do We Go from Here? (Posner) Failure in Copenhagen (Becker) Climate Cover Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming In the book ‘Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming,’ James Hoggan says the campaign to create skepticism about climate change is ‘by far and [...]

Climate Change, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized

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