Blog Entries by Jonathan Lash
Growing the Wealth of the World's Poor
Co-written with Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, UN Under-Secretary General
The food crises of the present will seem as nothing to those of the future unless the world brings some urgency and intelligence to managing the planet's nature-based assets.
When world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New...
Mayors "Get It" on Climate Change
1 Comments | Posted October 1, 2008 | 06:10 PM (EST)
Ironically, the most ambitious U.S. action in the fight against global warming is coming from big cities and their mayors.
It seems preposterous on its face. Each city's emissions are only a tiny fraction of the global pie. Cities can't force utilities to shift to renewables, or make Detroit produce...
The (Really) Big Picture on Energy Policy
1 Comments | Posted September 26, 2008 | 06:28 PM (EST)
After a brutal summer of volatile fuel prices and hyper-partisan politics, Congress's latest attempt at cogent energy policy came up frustratingly short. In the end, the Senate "gang of 20" effort stalled, and the House passed a "compromise" package primarily intended to ease pain at the pump by...
China's Climate Change Playbook is Worth Reading
Posted July 23, 2008 | 02:38 PM (EST)
In a few weeks, elite athletes from around the world will gather in Beijing. Press coverage of the Games is likely to highlight competition between America and China about which will win the most medals. Media coverage will also -- as it has already -- focus on air quality...
On ABC's This Week, conservative pundit George Will took up the case against...
Time magazine reports that in his new book, Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing...
Despite trailing his opponent by slightly more than two...
It was surely an odd bit of timing...
I can't. I won't. Because it won't matter. There is nothing I can say...
Now that Barack Obama and John McCain met on Monday, it's looking increasingly as...
TV Newser has learned that Fox News anchor E.D. Hill is leaving the channel after her contract was...
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Two months before he leaves office, Sen. Chuck Hagel is increasingly
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With the House of Representatives pledging an aid package for the auto...
SALT LAKE CITY — The view of...
My favorite story of the week was the news that Michelle Obama's mother will be coming to live with the...
4 Comments | Posted October 9, 2008 | 07:06 PM (EST)