Episode 66: The Great Climate and Environmental Solutions — Nothing more, nothing less.
In this episode:
WHO IS REALLY TO BLAME FOR CLIMATE CHANGE?
SO, DOES CHANGING A LIGHT BULB LEAD TO CHANGING THE WORLD?
Individual actions vs. corporate and government action. Who’s keeping the fossil fuel party going?
CITIZEN ASSEMBLIES
CARBON TAX: Misunderstood?
CARBON CLUBS/CLIMATE CLUBS
WHAT CAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS DO IN THE CLIMATE FIGHT?
THE TRUE ENVIRONMENTAL HEROES: State and Local Governments
Who is Really to Blame for Climate Change?
Individual Actions vs. Corporate and Government Action
Individual vs. Collective Action | GEOG 30N: Environment
Individual action refers to the actions taken by one individual person, acting based on ... When you get involved in your government, or your neighborhood, ...
Who Should Be Leading the Fight Against Climate Change?
The impact that any individual or even group of individuals can make, ... rest with the individual or the corporation but with the government acting in the ...
CITIZENS ASSEMBLIES
CITIZEN ASSEMBLIES:
A new form of Democracy that has been around 2,000 years
How does a citizens assembly work?
A citizens' assembly is a collection of individuals selected to be representative of the wider population. It meets over a set period of time to discuss an issue and make recommendations based on deliberation. Once these recommendations are made, the assembly is dissolved.
Carbon Tax: Is the best solution misunderstood?
Where Carbon Is Taxed (Overview)
Mar 23, 2021 — Carbon pricing (a rubric that includes emissions trading systems as well as direct carbon taxing) presents the classic glass half-empty, glass half-full picture ...
The climate won't wait. We need a carbon tax now - Financial ...
Oct 28, 2021 — Large changes might well be achievable with a surprisingly subtle carbon tax. The International Monetary Fund has suggested that a tax of $75/ton of CO2 might ...
Carbon Tax Center – Pricing carbon efficiently and equitably
A carbon tax is a fee on the carbon content of fossil fuels. Though levied “upstream” where the coal, oil or gas is extracted or imported, it charges fossil ...
Carbon Clubs/Climate Clubs
Full article: Climate clubs: politically feasible and desirable?
by R Falkner · 2021 · Cited by 3 — The idea of a stringent climate club, once the reserve of academic ... toward climate action and the European Green Deal proposal for carbon
Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-riding in International ...
Climate Club: the club is an agreement by participating countries to undertake harmonized emissions
Remaking Democracy in the time of Climate Change
Why do citizens (not) support democratic innovations? The
by R van der Does · 2021 — It relies on three survey experiments on Dutch citizens' support for a local democratic innovation (participatory budgeting)
One thing that unites modern systems of democracy, and which also distinguishes ... "people power" appears to have found a new lease of life: students have ...
American Democracy Is Not a Machine - Harvard University
Feb 7, 2017 — All analogies are. But the comparison to a living organism reveals some fundamental truths about democracy—about its complexity and its ...
What Federal Governments Can and Should do in the Climate Fight
Protecting Our Planet: How the Federal Government
Protecting Our Planet: How the Federal Government is Working to Protect the Environment. If you do a little research about pollution in America and around ...
The Real Heroes in the Climate Fight: State and Local Governments
Some States Are Taking Action Against Climate Change, But Jan 14, 2022 — While COP26 sparked a new wave of state commitments on climate, ... with some taking an aggressive stance on combating climate change and ..
Fighting Climate Change, From Capitol Hill to City Hall
https://www.americanprogress.org › article › fighting-cl...
Jan 26, 2022 — This report details case studies from six states and two cities to help inform how the United States can enact a whole-of-government approach to climate
The Environment | League of Women Voters
Nov 23, 2021 — As citizens of the world, we must protect our planet from the physical, ... The federal government should have a major role in setting standards for
States Are Laying a Road Map for Climate Leadership
Apr 30, 2020 — As of 2019, eight states have taken action to curb specific HFC uses: California, Vermont, and Washington state have passed legislation to adopt ...
What Can Governments Do: Buildings
What Can Governments Do: Transportation
10 Electrification of Transport Innovations - Climate Action
Oct 19, 2021 — Regional Electric Ground Effect Nautical Transport (REGENT). 2. · Virgin Hyperloop & Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (Hyperloop TT)