Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Natural-Gas Cars in Thailand
So, to recap: Thailand instituted price caps for a less efficient fuel that is not profitable on its own and whose widespread use the country’s infrastructure is ill-equipped to handle.
New Book Series Encourages Kids to be Environmentally Friendly | Green | Babies Online The Blog
# Can Save the Earth: One Little Monster Learns to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. This story is about a monster named Max, and how he changes from a wasteful monster to an environmentally responsible monster.
# The Polar Bears’ Home: A Story about Global Warming. A parent and child learn about polar bears and how they can reduce the effects of global warming.
OpenMarket.org - Iain Murray - Let Friedman Reign?
Thomas Friedman has come up with a grand unifying theory for combating existential threats. The left worry about global warming and 14 inches of sea level rise extinguishing modern civilization and the right to choose. Neocons worry about evil Muslims lurking behind the bushes ready to set off one of their millions of dirty bombs in suburban malls. Neither worry is particularly realistic, yet they dominate much of American politics. Friedman has a solution to them both, which he calls Code Green. In Hot Flat and Crowded, he suggests that by the one simple, affordable step of, err, completely re-engineering the way we power America, we will stop global warming, destroy Islamic fundamentalism and reinvigorate America’s position in the world at a stroke. Oh, and he can completely reform China too. This is, in short, the biggest conflation of wishful thinking, confused priorities and megalomania that I have ever seen.
I've read that book too, and I think Iain Murray liked it more than I did.

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