Environmental Economics

Of Economics and Energy (US News & World Report)

15 May 2008

While your cover story "Why America Needs an Energy Diet" [April 28-May 5] may be correct, I suggest that a more pressing need is for a practical and sane national energy policy..

Why the China Quake Was So Devastating (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)

15 May 2008

The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province, leveling buildings and taking tens of thousands of lives, might not have wrought such destruction in the United States, experts say.

Expert warns climate change will lead to 'barbarisation' (Guardian Unlimited)

15 May 2008

Climate change will lead to a 'fortress world' in which the rich lock themselves away while the poor must fend for themselves, according to a leading environmental expert