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Strive for Accuracy, not Alarmism, in Environmental Education
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 9.16.2008
California plans to provide an environmental education curriculum to its K-12 schools, home to more than six million students, by 2010. Since California often sets the tone for the rest of the nation, it wouldn’t hurt to see just what kind of environmental curriculum the Golden State has in mind.
Impact - August 2008
8.31.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - August 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
The Media Should Report What the Vatican Really Says about the Environment
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 8.19.2008
Listening to the news over the past year, one would think the Vatican was reinventing Catholicism in an effort to go green. First there was the story that the Vatican was sponsoring a forest to offset the carbon emissions of Vatican City. Then we found out that the Vatican had come up with seven new deadly sins, among them polluting the environment. The UK’s Telegraph even ran the headline “Recycle or go to Hell, warns Vatican.” And in July, the Los Angeles Times wrote, “Pope Benedict XVI, like many world leaders, has spoken passionately about the urgent need to protect the planet from climate catastrophe.”
How Water, Oil, and Government Mix in California
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 8.13.2008 5:00:00 PM
On August 6, the California Coastal Commission approved a desalination plant at Carlsbad in San Diego County, a region with severe water needs in normal times and hard hit by the current drought. The $300-million for-profit venture by the Poseidon Resources Corporation aims to produce as much as 50 million gallons of fresh water each day, about nine percent of the water San Diego County uses. The approval marks a change for the Coastal Commission, an unelected body usually in the business of rejection.
Impact - July 2008
7.31.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - July 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Be Careful What You Wish For: Hardship of high gasoline prices previews the impact of emission controls
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 7.15.2008 5:30:00 PM
In 2006, at the end of his movie An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore offered a number of things that the average person could do to decrease their impact on global climate change. They could ride a bike or take mass transit, the former vice-president advised. They could drive a fuel-efficient car, and they could drive less. Two years later, people are evidently making those choices in large numbers. But it’s not because of Mr. Gore, or Sheryl Crow, or Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s because of rising gas prices.
Impact - June 2008
6.30.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - June 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
What Congress, and Everybody Else, Should Know About Genetically Modified Crops
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 6.17.2008
With concerns mounting over global food supply and prices, and the potential impacts of climate change on the frequency of droughts or disease outbreaks, now’s the time for using technology to our advantage in food production. With this in mind, the Bush administration included a directive in its proposed $770 million global food aid package that the U.S. Agency for International Development spend $150 million on development farming, including the use of genetically modified (GM) crops, in food-deprived countries. The package awaits congressional approval.
Cleaner Environment Not Necessarily in the Bag for California
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 5.21.2008 3:00:00 PM
SACRAMENTO – Tomorrow the Assembly Appropriations Committee considers AB 2058, “Reducing Plastic Bags,” by Lloyd E. Levine, a Sherman Oaks Democrat, which imposes on consumers a recycling “fee” of $.25 per bag. The committee, and all Californians, should also consider some facts about plastic bags and their alternatives.
Is the Answer Blowing in the Wind? Or in Government Energy Subsidies?
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 5.20.2008
Over the last decade, wind energy capacity in the United States has been increasing at a rapid rate. This surge is partly influenced by the attractive “green” aspects of wind energy, namely that it is carbon-free and nearly limitless. Something else, however, is also driving the surge in capacity – tax breaks to wind energy producers. These subsidies make it difficult to know if, or when, this industry will be able to stand on its own.
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