Buildings & Grounds: Professor Who Organized 'Focus the Nation' Plans Another Teach-In - Chronicle.com

Raleigh, N.C. — Focus the Nation, the nationwide project in January that highlighted issues in climate change, was among the largest teach-ins ever organized, with about 1,900 colleges and other groups participating.

Now Eban S. Goodstein, a professor of economics at Oregon’s Lewis and Clark College who organized the project, wants to hold another teach-in that rivals the size of Focus the Nation. But this time the program will concentrate on the policies on climate change that will come out of President-elect Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office. The project is now called the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions.

Interest in the Canadian CO2 market has been sparse.

Compared to the EU market, which sees over 10 million tonnes of carbon traded daily, volumes on Montreal have been extremely light. Only 1,040 lots have traded since May, representing 104,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Prices closed at C$10.50 ($12.71) a tonne on Monday while open interest on the benchmark futures, which settle in 2011, is 305 lots. This means only 30,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide reductions are due to change hands in 2010, or the equivalent of taking around 7,000 cars off the road for a year.