Posted on Monday February 2nd by admin | 32
- GOP Senators, including Mitch McConnell and John McCain, are sounding a dour note on the future of the $800 billion stimulus package. One possible solution: a bipartisan consensus seems to be growing for more infrastructure spending.
- Utilities are experimenting with the use of smiley faces and frowny faces on electric bills to praise their customers for being good energy misers and shame them for being hogs, respectively :) (NY Times)
- Public transportation ridership is at record levels across the country, but local transit agencies are broke and are being forced to cut services anyway. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- Clean energy spending needs to triple to $515 billion per year if the world is going to rein in carbon emissions and not descend into global warming hell. We’re headed in the right direction though: spending is already up five-fold from 2004. (Guardian)
- An Oregon company has developed a software program that targets carbon emissions in infrastructure projects by helping government agencies make environmentally sound choices about materials and methodology. (NYT - Green Inc.)
- The stimulus bill is giving Vladimir Putin visions of the U.S.(S.R.). In his own words: “There is a temptation to expand direct interference of state in economy. In the Soviet Union that became an absolute. We paid a very dear price for that.” Then again, angry impoverished Russians are in the street demanding his resignation. Our advice: Stimulus package! (Times UK / Daily Mail)
