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Jigar Shah’s Creating Climate Wealth (2013)
Posted by Jonathan Cloud in Energy & Environment, Global, National, News, Review, Sustainability, Sustainable Business on Saturday, January 4, 2014
Jigar Shah has a disarmingly powerful message for today’s young capitalists: fixing the climate crisis is the biggest financial opportunity of our lifetimes. Indeed, Shah is on track to become a role model for a new generation of entrepreneurs who are committed to leveraging mainstream investment for social transformation.
In Creating Climate Wealth, Shah makes the case that clean energy represents a ten trillion dollar investment opportunity—if we are just willing to look at what already makes economic sense in addressing the impacts of climate change. The premise of his book, as he states it in a recent video interview, is that 50% of the climate challenge can be tackled profitably with existing technologies, if we have the right business models.
Regenerating NJ Shore Communities
Posted by Jonathan Cloud in Energy & Environment, Local, NJ Shore, State, Sustainability on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Through our new nonprofit, the Center for Regenerative Community Solutions (CRCS), we have begun the work of rebuilding NJ’s shore communities in a more sustainable way. As part of the basis for this work, we’ve published the following article, originally posted January 12, 2013, and most recently revised February 11, 2012: RegeneratingNewJerseyShoreCommunitiesJan2013r
We’ve also been sharing the following message with a number of Shore-based and statewide nonprofits:
CRCS is looking to partner with other nonprofit and civic organizations to host a series of community dialogs regarding the long term sustainable reconstruction of the NJ shore. Our team has substantial experience and expertise in community engagement, urban planning, anthropology, organization development, project management, leadership development, finance, and permaculture, as well as the broad topics of sea level rise, coastal ecosystem integrity, and climate change.
While we are a newly registered entity, CRCS comes out of work that we’ve done for a number of years through the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Center for Leadership in Sustainability, and through several other nonprofits.
Seeking Sustainable Growth in the Wake of Sandy
Posted by Jonathan Cloud in Analysis, Energy & Environment, Local, Policy, State, Sustainability on Sunday, December 30, 2012
The Center for Regenerative Community Solutions and Regenerative Community Ventures, Inc. have recently circulated a position paper on “Laying a Foundation for Sustainable Growth in New Jersey in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy” with policy makers and community leaders in the state. Here is a final version, and several excerpts. The authors are co-founders of the Center for Leadership in Sustainability, the Sustainable Leadership Forum, and Acumen Technology Group, LLC. Jonathan Cloud is Senior Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Managing Partner, Acumen Technology Group, LLC.Victoria Zelin is Principal, Regenerative Community Ventures, Inc., a licensee of Unified Field Corporation.
Superstorm Sandy has dramatically altered NJ’s economy as well as its geography for years to come. While there may be a short-term “bounce” from the money spent on reconstruction, the thinking about how that rebuilding should be carried out is already moving very quickly toward the view that it needs to be substantially more hurricane-proof and disaster-resistant, more resilient, and — in a word — more sustainable.
This paper sets out some considerations and recommendations for creating a foundation for sustainable growth in New Jersey, describes some of the initiatives we are taking through our new nonprofit organization, the Center for Regenerative Community Solutions, and makes specific suggestions for policies and programs for state and local government to support these and similar initiatives from other organizations.
What’s In a Name? – Help Needed
Posted by in Energy & Environment, National, Policy on Thursday, February 25, 2010
I need your help. For discussion purposes please assume the following:- We need to phase out the use of fossil fuels.
- We need to incentivize people to burn less fossil fuel and one way to do this is to increase the prices of fossil fuels.
- An easy way to do this is to impose a tax on fossil fuels.
- The specific proposal here is to impose a tax on the CO2 that will be produced when the fuel is burned, and to collect this tax at the source of the fuel: mine, well, or port of entry for imported oil and gas. The tax will start low and increase by a predetermined amount each year. All the revenue from this tax, except for a small administrative cost, will be returned directly and promptly to the public. The revenue will be divided equally among all legal residents and checks will be sent out in December and June. [Alaska does this for oil pipeline revenue and sends out a check each June.]
Off Fossil Fuels by 2040: Proposed Democratic Resolution for Feb 1 Meeting
Posted by Jonathan Cloud in Democrats, Energy & Environment, National, News, Policy on Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Bernards Township Democratic Committee Resolution No. 2010-01
A RESOLUTION urging Congress and the President of the United States to enact legislation to phase out the use of all fossil fuels by 2040, and urging the President of the United States to declare 2010 a year for national dialog on this program.
WHEREAS, the Bernards Township Democratic Committee is a duly organized local political committee under the laws of the State of New Jersey;
The Democrats Still Don’t Get It
Posted by Jonathan Cloud in Analysis, Democrats, Economy, Energy & Environment, National on Saturday, January 23, 2010
Hi folks:
I copied below a column from tomorrows NYT by Bob Herbert. This is the story I was yelling about in Sonal’s campaign and you guys were wondering if I was nuts and were full of denial respecting the troubles brewing here and on everybody’s mind. My specific charge was limousine liberals.
Reading the stuff you two are batting back and forth I wonder if you two are on the same planet as I live on. The health care legislation is dead. Cap and trade or any variations of carbon restrictions are dead. President Nero fiddled while the economy was burning, hostage as he is to environmental interests as hostile to progress as the republican cabal is to co-operation. The cart was placed before the donkey. You can accomplish nothing until the private economy gets back on its feet. With a robust economy, with unemployment dropping all these other things could be considered rationally. Until then nothing will get done. Read the rest of this entry »
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