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Putting a price on carbon
To address global warming, most economists favor a focus on prices, not quantities.
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Making affordable housing greener
With a beneficial focus on up-front planning, green building has moved from the fringes to the mainstream. Studies are finding no statistically significant difference between the costs of green construction and traditional building?and operational savings are significant.
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Cleaning the air with the invisible hand
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Industrial ecology: environmental and economic boon
A movement that began almost accidentally 35 years ago in Denmark is showing that when factories use the waste of other nearby factories as their raw material, advantages to the environment and the local economy abound.
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CRP: Green if good, but more green is preferred
Conservation Reserve Program is losing ground, but intent on enrolling more environmentally sensitive land.
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What a waste: the generation and disposal of trash imposes costs on society and the environment: should we be doing more?
In 1987, the Mobro 4000 garbage barge from Long Island focused public attention on trash. Have we disposed of the problem?
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Profiles in garbage
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The case for direct methods to address CO2 emissions and other negative environmental externalities
Existing policies to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) largely have been structured to subsidize alternative energy technologies. Yet these policies are likely not to be as useful as ones that target CO2 emissions directly, such as an emissions tax or a "cap and trade" program.
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