Sheryl Crow, The Queen Of Green | The Smoking Gun

Singer’s 2010 rider demands recycled toilet paper, offers promoters “greening” tips
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According to Crow’s rider, her tour party travels between gigs in two 45-foot buses, while her equipment is packed into two tractor-trailers.

Crow, 48, also offers promoters “venue greening suggestions.” She wants “traditional light bulbs” swapped out for compact fluorescent bulbs in “all offices, dressing rooms and common areas.” “Eco-friendly cleaning and bathroom products” and “post-consumer recycled toilet paper and paper towel” should also be used. Crow’s rider also notes that, “We strongly encourage you to use renewable sources and/or to buy sustainable energy credits where possible. Many local utilities offer ‘green power’ as an option--please check with yours and opt in.”

U.S. Department of Energy - Cleaning Up [Coal's CO2 Emissions] | DOE Blog

The Department of Energy is currently pursuing multiple demonstration projects using close to $4 billion in federal funds

Book Review: Climatopolis By Matthew E. Kahn - Science News

...economist Matthew Kahn has a message for prosperous urbanites in developed (and rapidly developing) nations who worry about the fate of their children and grandchildren in a greenhouse world: Don’t.

In cities, where the world’s population is increasingly concentrated, market forces will ensure that all but the poorest have little to fear, Kahn argues. As long as the market is allowed to set fair prices that reflect the environmental costs of energy and the scarcity of finite resources like water, he says, people and cities will adjust. Some cities may even find themselves better off, Kahn contends, as warmer winters transform today’s snowbelt into the cool place to be. He even offers a list of the most climate-resilient U.S. cities.

Federal Task Force Reasserts the Need for a Price on Carbon - NYTimes.com

In Europe, the current $20 price per ton has been both too low and too unsteady; Vollsaeter said it has not catalyzed much CCS development. "We need a price three to four times that, easy," he said. "Fifteen dollars will never reach that goal."