Its an open, dirty secret, swept under the rug by environmentally conscious and climate-denying consumers alike. Rich and poor want the best deals on low cost polluting, whether its cheap air fares or a nice price on a Lear Jet. Low cost polluting in myriad ways is ever-present, guaranteed to be
Pollution · Patrick Collison
Air pollution is a very big deal. Its adverse effects on numerous health outcomes and general mortality are widely documented. However, our understanding of its cognitive costs is more recent and those costs are almost certainly still significantly under-emphasized. For example, cognitive effects are not mentioned in most EPA materials.
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Billions of people in developing nations are still largely held captive to a restricted, low quality, and expensive local financial…
Animal Agriculture Costs More In Health Damage Than It Contributes To The Economy
As with the climate, the chief culprit is meat and dairy. But when it comes to particulate pollution, the worst offender is poultry.
Make Housing Affordable | The Australian Greens
But housing is too expensive because Labor and the Liberals give special treatment to the big banks and the property industry. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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BC Greens building a future where everyone has what they need to thrive in a healthy, prosperous and sustainable way.
The case for environmentally sensitive housing
If we are serious about providing the best quality homes we must regenerate the empty built environment. Sustainability would be good too
Cost of Living - One Nation Victoria
Winding back Labor's land tax hikes, lifting the payroll tax threshold, abolishing stamp duty on insurance, and cutting the cost built into every new home.
Why the Future of Work Is at Home
Even a cursory look at the social, environmental, and economic impacts of working from home indicates that even more people could and should be.
Greens unveil bold housing plan to bring down the cost of buying a home by abolishing stamp duty and “ultra-wealth tax” | The Australian Greens
The Victorian Greens have unveiled the details of their bold plan to bring down the cost of buying a home.
Social Influence and Action — Jen Christiansen
I’m wary of climate solutions that are hyper focused on the action of individuals as opposed to systems and corporations. Do you experience carbon footprint guilt every time you board a plane to visit family too? Well, that whole schema was a product of the PR firm Ogilvy & Mather for British Petroleum. It was an effort to shift focus away from oil companies and onto individual responsibility to lower greenhouse gas emissions. For more, read “The carbon footprint sham” by Mark Kaufman for Mashable in 2021, and “Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook” by Rebecca Solnit for The Guardian.
How the UK's extreme heat is shifting the conversation about air-con
Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences?
Sustainable Homes | Platform | The Australian Greens
The Greens have a plan to permanently lower your energy bills and make it easier for everyone to access renewable energy.
Reflect nature’s ‘true value’ in economic policies and decisions, UN chief urges
Nations must start weighing up the cost of economic profit against damage to the environment if they are to have a chance at a sustainable future, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday.
Keep coming back to the idea that—ideally—the Atmosphere ultimately wants to become something like a public utility. But obviously not an American public utility. But also not a European one, nor one belonging to any conventional state. A new type of thing entirely—a global public utility.
