Tag Archives: economics

Given the imperative of fast action on climate, 2018 must be a year that prioritizes decisions rather than simply adds more detail to a story we already know. 2017 already brought three books that tell us enough about what we need to do and why: Peter Kalmus’s Being the Change, Brett Favaro’s The Carbon Code, […]

U.S. Coal in the 21st Century: Markets, Bankruptcy, Finance and Law

Come hear current experts from a range of sectors discuss climate change and share their solutions-based approaches.

Can a new initiative from Daniel Doctoroff and Google advance the civic conversation on climate change?

In recent years, science and policy have been catching up with Andrew Willner's vision for a sustainable harbor.

"This is not about just incremental change. This is about whole system change. And this applies to all of us, whatever sphere of influence we have."

Public opinion lags scientific understanding of climate, and so our political system doesn't move fast enough. A new book offers ideas to change that around.

Citizens Climate Lobby aims to price carbon, solve climate change, and to do it in a way that crosses Amer­i­can polit­i­cal bar­ri­ers. Founded by a Texan, after the creek behind his childhood home dried up.

Will solar panels soon become as iconic to New York's rooftops as the ubiquitous water tower?

Gernot Wagner is an economist who focuses on what he doesn’t know. Tail events, the black swans, the unknown unknowns. The future.

Can global finance rapidly shift gears to trigger a new wave of sustainable investing?

In a country where the president has been forced to work around Congress on climate strategy, the onus may be on local governments to take the challenge of long-term climate planning into their own hands. And local governments around the U.S. and the globe seem to be attempting just that, according to the results of the Urban Climate Change Governance Survey.

Can the sharing economy help solve global problems like climate change?

Join a panel of environmentalists, economists, anthropologists, and entrepreneurs as they examine the
life cycle of the goods we buy—from conception and design to labor and manufacturing, through repair and disposal. How are each of these stages interconnected, and what changes to our consumption habits could truly be impactful?

For more information about The Five Thousand Pound Life, read an introductory essay here. In the opening event of The Five Thousand Pound Life, Anthony Leiserowitz will frame the different ways in which Americans perceive the threat of climate change, how we understand our collective and individual capacity to address it, and how willing we are […]

When a New York City broker recently sold a condo in the opulent One57 building for $6.5 million to a Chinese woman, he expected her to move in immediately. However, when he asked what she was looking for, she said it was not for her but for her daughter, who would be attending school in the city, […]

Although no coffee beans are grown in Manhattan, for many reasons it is truly the coffee island. Rachel Northrop brings us on a big apple tour behind the bean.

After the storm, Kaizhong Huang's take on sustainability in the national arena