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 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

I believe that assessing economic health must necessarily factor in environmental health. Economic analyzes must not 1) ignore loss of natural capital -- soil, fish, biodiversity, fossil fuels, etc--or fail to depreciate resources as they’re used up or polluted; 2) pretend that waste has no ill effect; 3) put no value on natural beauty. Very efficient industrial activities that resemble natural processes with matter recycling in closed systems should be “winners”; wasteful ones should also be economic “losers”. Use of Earth’s “commons” --air, water, land, soil, trees, minerals, etc--should be regulated so that the right to use the commons is linked to responsibility to protect it. Markets (some based on “cap & trade”) providing incentive for environmental good & investment in restoring / protecting natural capital should be encouraged.

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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #40: Environmental Economics

Environmental Economics (from online encyclopedia)
Environmental Ethics (from online encyclopedia)
Environmental Impact Assessment (from online encyclopedia)
Worldview Watch issue #7: Geoengineering, Economics, and Restraint
National Center for Environmental Economics (maintained by US EPA)
Carbon Tax (from online encyclopedia)
Emissions Trading (online encyclopedia article providing an example of free market approach to environmental regulation)
Carbon Capture and Storage (from online encyclopedia)
Worldview Watch issue #5: Greenhouse Bananas--Laugh or Cry? 
The Borrowers Guide to Financing Solar Energy Systems (online copy of 44 page NREL 2009 booklet)
Alliance to Save Energy (non-profit group promoting energy efficiency worldwide since 1977) 
The Energy Collective (blog/website: "Power, Policy, Climate--the conversation begins here")
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist by Ray C. Anderson (2009 book re: "doing business by respecting the Earth")
The Power of Renewables, by Matthew Wald (from March 2009 issue of Scientific American)
A Grand Plan for Solar Energy (January 2008 Scientific American article)
"Sunrise for Solar Heat Power" by Moises Velasquez-Manoff (August 18 2009 article in Christian Science Monitor)
More Profit With Less Carbon, article by Amory Lovins / with bibliography
Carbon Mitigation Initiative (from Princeton University Environmental Institute)
Personal Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator (figure your carbon footprint using this tool from US EPA)
"Putting a Value on Nature Could Set Scene for True Green Economy" by Pavan Sukhdev (Feb 2010 article)
"A Refreshing Dose of Honesty" (cap and dividend alternative to cap and trade, The Economist Feb 4 2010)
The Carbon Limits and Energy for America's Renewal (CLEAR) Act  (2010 Senate bill per Maria Cantwell)
"Time to Tax Financial Speculation" by Sarah Anderson (Feb 11 2010 YES! Magazine article)
"Banking on Carbon," by Bryan Walsh"  (in Time December 14 2009)
Misleading Indicator, by Megan McArdle (why GDP needs to be replaced, from The Atlantic, Nov 2009)
A Mechanism of Hot Air, by Madhusree Mukerjee (re: carbon offset method, June 2009 Scientific American)
America's Untapped Energy Resource: Boosting Efficiency, by M. Grunwald (in Time January 12, 2009)
"Sizing Up Carbon Footprints," by B. Walsh and T. Sharples (in Time May 25, 2008)
"CO2--They Should Bottle That Stuff" by E. Roston and B. Chameides (April, 2008 Time website article)
Fixing Climate, by W. Broecker and R. Kunzig (interview w/ Broecker re: his plan detailed in this 2008 book)
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (at UC Berkeley)
Earth Policy Institute (organization devoted to "building an economy for the Earth")
Emissions Reduction Market System -- An Overview (from Illinois state EPA)
US Climate Action Partnership (coalition of corporations supporting action to curb global warming)
Business Environmental Leadership Council (assoc. of US corporations focused on climate change)
Conversations With History: Natural Capitalism with Amory Lovins (2009 UCTV program) 
Greenhouse Reduction - Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide (2008 UCTV program)
"New Nuclear--The Economics Say No" (November, 2009 Pan Europe Utilities Citi Report)
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by P. Hawken, A. Lovins, H. Lovins (about this book)
Ecological Economics, textbook by Herman Daly and Joshua Farley, Island Press (about this book)
Revisiting Economic Man, by Alexia Eastwood (2010 article on Share the World's Resources website)
What's Nature Worth: Opening the Black Box of Ecological Valuation, article by James Boyd, RFF
The New Economy of Nature, by G. Dailey and K. Ellison, Island Press (about this book)
Human Well Being and the Natural Environment, by Partha Dasgupta, Oxford University Press (about this book)
The Global Commons, by Susan Buck, Island Press (about this book)
Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival (about this book)
Beyond Kyoto: Climate Change and the EU (detailed position paper from Greenpeace's European Unit)
Green Accounting (reports on Harvard grad student's research)
New Economics Foundation ("promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking")
The Tragedy of the Commons (from online encyclopedia)
The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin (the classic 1968 paper)
Special Issue, Science Magazine: Tragedy of the Commons? -- Web Resources
The Drama of the Commons (online book from NRC about devising workable systems for managing shared resources)
International Agreements (from Canada's equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency)
Towards Effective Environmental Regulation (approaches to implementing & enforcing European environmental laws)
U.S. EPA Laws & Regulations Website
Environmental Regulation and the Competitiveness of US Manufacturing (classic 1995 paper by Jaffe, etal)
United Nations Population Division Homepage
Population Connection (resources on the connection between population and environment)
Population Reference Bureau
Population Council (devoted to improving well-being / reproductive health of current & future human beings)
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, by James Gustave Speth (about this book)
quotes and links related to "What's Wrong with Business?" (from Planet Friendly website)
quotes related to environmental economics (from Andy Kerr website)
quotes from environmental economics guru Amory Lovins

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