Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Energy

The Suburbanist Paradox

By Jason Varone | | 13 Comments
The Atlantic Monthly’s Matthew Yglesias argues that high-density living is a key strategy to fight climate change. Yglesias takes issue with fellow Atlantic Online blogger Ross Douthat and author Joel Kotkin, who defend suburban sprawl — what James Kunstler has famously called "the most destructive development pattern the world has ever seen, and perhaps the […]

Times Says: We Must Pay More for Fossil Fuels

By Sarah Goodyear | | 2 Comments
The New York Times published an editorial today about "an unpleasant and inescapable truth: any serious effort to fight [global] warming will require everyone to pay more for energy." The piece then goes on to dismiss carbon taxes as politically unfeasible, and discusses the merits of cap-and-trade systems, emphasizing that in order to work, they […]

How US Energy Emissions Compare (It’s Not Pretty)

By Sarah Goodyear | | 2 Comments
This eye-opening map from the Sightline Institute’s blog uses US Department of Energy figures to demonstrate how individual states stack up against nations from around the world in terms of greenhouse gas emissions from energy use. The figures are especially astonishing when you look at the population comparisons (which can be found in spreadsheet form […]

Addicted To Oil: Ranking States’ Vulnerability

By Jason Varone | | 3 Comments
A new NRDC report ranks U.S. states on their level of oil vulnerability measured by how heavily each state’s citizens are affected by increases in oil prices. States are also ranked on their implementation of solutions to reduce oil dependence. The report found that while oil dependence affects all states, some are hit harder economically […]

Book Review: Twenty-Three Years to Save the Planet

By Aaron Donovan | | 8 Comments
When George Monbiot, the popular columnist for the UK’s Guardian newspaper, gets interested in something, he digs and digs until he’s found what he’s satisfied is the truth. Monbiot is interested in global warming, and presents in Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (U.S. Edition: South End Press, May 2007) a heavily footnoted 215-page brisk and compelling case for why […]

Albany Fiddles Over Congestion Pricing…

By Jason Varone | | 3 Comments
… as NASA Scientist James Hansen and six other scientists publish a new global climate change study that concludes, "The Earth today stands in imminent peril and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change." Steve Connor writes in The Independent (via Gristmill): "Civilisation developed, and […]
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