Issues in Conflict, Development and the Environment
Friday, May 8, 2009
Some more environmental links
I am strangely excited about Google releasing a power meter that you can follow on your phone. Yeah, Google is taking over the world, but they do it so well.
Can a carbon cap and trade system actually save people money by increasing energy efficiency?
Mark Bittman has an interesting link that tracks how much of your food is imported, from Global Grocer. I like the data, but agree with a reader that Global Grocer is engaged in "anti-trade fearmongering". It really is ok to buy imports.
I also like Bittmans link to a map of organic farms in America:
I am a consultant with the World Bank in DC and a recent PhD graduate of economics at the University of California, Irvine. My research is on conflict and post-conflict development, and the economic impact of the environment and environmental change. I am currently working on a randomized impact evaluation for the World Bank in the post-conflict area of northern Uganda.
>> If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>> One of Einstein's colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man asked, startled.
"No," Einstein answered. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?"
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