Last week, Nicholas Stern, former chief economist of the world bank, unveiled The Stern Report, an extensive analysis of the “cost” of global warming. The report takes a major step in the consideration of global warming, because it casts environmental issues in a light usually far removed from the environment: economics.
Yes, the Stern Report [...]
Thinking Green, in more ways than one
election day blues
As I stared down at my ballot this morning, slowly filling in the bubbles, I found myself quite contemplative. Once a year we’re asked to think about the future, to make our individual voices anonymously heard, to select the individuals we want shaping our lives and the rules we live by. Yet sometimes politics [...]