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Is Sunlight Unfairly Competing With Fossil Fuels?

12:33 pm in economics, fossil fuels, geo-engineering, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

via internet science tech We can and should go back and forth about the merits, demerits, risks and potential rewards of the spectrum of geoengineering techniques, from the simple but slow and effective (like afforestation) to the well, more fraught with potential catastrophic danger (like trying to block out the sun). It's the latter than renowned economist Herman Daly, the de facto father of ecological economics itself, witt...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Iowa Energy Forum: Another Oil Industry Astroturf Group To Watch Out For

2:02 pm in activism, Business & Politics, fossil fuels, oil by TreeHugger

via internet business politics America's great polluting industries have been creating fake grassroots groups (astroturf, in you're new to the lingo) to give their viewpoint a folksy community quality for some time. Think Progress has another one to watch out for, the Iowa Energy Forum....Read the full story on TreeHugger