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This could be interesting. I wonder what they sound like IRL.

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You could say we brought upon ourselves the economic and environmental tragedies of today. And you’d probably be correct. Everyone is still finger pointing because, by definition there can be no absolute answer, so it’s safe. Fairness is at the bottom of all of this, but where? And why. Perhaps a narrow definition of private [...]

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Save fuel, get through traffic quicker and perhaps also safer. Nothing not to like, very clever. In Barcelona and Madrid motor bikers get pole position at traffic intersections. The pavement is marked with a yellow grid (Barcelona) or bike icons (Madrid), bikers scoot ahead of the cars and busses for the light change. Economic incentives [...]

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I realise everyone on the planet is focused on the ongoing Bear debacle and gossip re insolvent financial institutions about to be outed, with biofuels way down the list of topics at dinner tables in most NYC restaurants tonight. But this is a much bigger deal in the long run so I’m posting against the [...]

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There’s a piece in the WSJ today re Richard Sandor, emissions and carbon trading. The next big battlefield will be in the U.S., where Congress is currently debating setting up a system for regulating greenhouse-gas emissions. Lawmakers are considering a system like the one created by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a global United Nations-sponsored accord that set [...]

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