It would be an understatement to say we’ve been accused of taking controversial positions on environmental issues - smart growth, global warming, government reform, fossil fuel and nuclear power, to name a few. The problem, however, is these positions are not adopted out of some pathological need to be contrarian, they spring from genuine conviction [...]

The essense of New Suburbanism is to support a clean, but wider human footprint - which is anathema to much of conventional environmentalist wisdom.  In many parts of the world, such as within the state of California, there is abundant open space. California, especially within its vast interior, has hundreds upon thousands of virtually vacant square miles of rolling foothills, [...]

There is an interesting recent report on IndianAutoBlog entitled “Introducing The Blade Runner.”  It describes (with ample concept drawings) an intriguing idea - a bus that operates with two sets of wheels, one for roads and one for rails.  If the bus is operating on roads, the railway wheels retract into the underbody of the vehicle, and vice versa.  [...]

In 2004 author Michael Crichton published “State of Fear,” a novel that he uses as a platform to attempt to debunk global warming alarm.  Whether or not one finds Crichton’s arguments compelling generally governs how someone might characterize his views on environmentalists and environmentalism.  But Crichton, in his own way, is himself an environmentalist. Having [...]

Only an extreme libertarian would claim there is no role for government.  In the face of population growth, aging infrastructure, and myriad new, cleaner and more sustainable ways to deliver energy, water and transportation resources, there is much to be done by the public sector.  Green public works will create wealth and resource abundance.  Green public works must include [...]

Today California is probably the most hostile state in the U.S. towards private business, and with the global warming act nearing implementation, things are going to get much worse.  But big changes could be closer than you think.
It isn’t easy to understand just how bad California’s business climate is until you talk to people from [...]

Assembly Bill 32, signed into law by California Governor Schwarzenegger in late 2006, took a big step closer to implementation last week with the release of the much anticipated “Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan.”

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AB32 California Global Warming Act
Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan - CARB July 2008
Two key pages in the 77 page document are [...]