by Ben Carmichael | Aug 22, 2012 | Environment, Featured
Note: Stefan Lanfer at The Barr Foundation was kind enough to invite me to contribute to their News & Knowledge blog. Below is a copy of that post. The original lives here. In the beginning was the word. But now, word and image (if you want to give your words a...
by Ben Carmichael | Dec 27, 2010 | Environment, Featured
The time is 8:15 am. You have a meeting at 8:45am. This leaves you with 15 minutes to get to work and make sure your hair doesn’t look like a character from Avatar. What do you do? Two new studies out this month make the case that at rush hour, bikes can leave cars...
by Ben Carmichael | Nov 9, 2010 | Environment, Featured
The leading question about climate change is a question of costs. No one disputes that climate change will be expensive. Where advocates argue we need to pay now, climate delayers argue we should wait and pay later. As a consequence, where sides diverge on timing,...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment, Featured
For some, it was with a sense of relief that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar passed Cape Wind, the beleaguered offshore wind project on Cape Cod. For others, it was the latest in a drama that has lasted nearly a decade. While the environment remains a low priority...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment, Featured
Now that Sarah Palin has announced her resignation as Governor of Alaska, you may wonder: What has she been doing? How will she fill her time? In an Op-Ed piece for The Washington Post, Palin kindly provided an answer. She’s committed herself to a single task:...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Featured
I went to bed last night with Oxford covered in a thin, quiet blanket of snow. I woke up to find the country in chaos. The Telegraph ran a headline saying, “Britain paralyzed by worst snowfall for 20 years.” Meanwhile, the usually reserved Times of London...
