Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts

Stephen Hill Linkography: Deutschland

Blog: How's Europe Doing – posted 13 Nov 2010 - The Washington Monthly. In Germany, manufacturing still dominates finance. German capitalism didn’t succumb to the financialization that swept the United States and Britain in the 1980s’ - though Germany’s banks and financial sector did get snared in the Wall Street web.

Don't Scorn Germany and Japan; Learn From Them
Article: 29 July 2010 - Los Angeles Times. The global marketplace has become tumultuous, so when we find a bright spot, one would think it deserves a mention: Germany and Japan! Japan's economy has been and remains successful. So is Germany's. They have reached an economic steady state in which they don't need roaring growth rates to provide for their people. But for the economic Cassandras, apparently it doesn't matter if people's needs are being met; what matters is whether their theories and equations balance.

Germany Leads Europe's Wind and Solar
Energy Revolution

Article: 28 October 2008 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. While Bush and other world leaders pitted the environment and energy innovation against the economy and loss of jobs, Europe has discovered that greater energy efficiency actually is good for their economy and businesses. Their efforts led to the rise of new technologies, industries and created tens of thousands of jobs.

Angela Merkel is Getting it Right
Article: 04 October 2010 - IP Global (German Council on Foreign Relations). Chancellor Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed sweeping financial regulatory changes. They warned the Obama administration not to block their attempts to crack down on hedge funds and derivatives, corrupt rating agencies, outrageous bank bonuses and more. Would US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have dithered even more had he not been pushed – shoved, by the Europeans, led by Merkel?

Stephen Hill Linkography: Facing Up

What Obama Can Learn From Old Europe
Posted: 28 January 2009 - Huffington Post. In spite of the economic crisis, the European governments will strive to make energy and climate change a win-win situation. They intend to implement far-reaching conservation measures and enact the world's most ambitious carbon-trading program. Thus, more green jobs will be created and investment in the low-carbon economy of the future can be promoted.

10 Steps to Better Elections
Article: 1 May 2005 - Sierra Magazine. Also on the CCMC website. Hill argues that - when elections are unfair, the environment loses. While polls show that large majorities of the American public favor strong environmental protections, those aspirations are routinely frustrated by a flawed voting system. And as long as the winner-take-all system remains intact, the Green Party is doomed to retain the role of spoiler instead of electoral leader for environmental issues.

Obama the Impotent
Posted: 25 September 2009 - Huffington Post. Also posted as follows: The Guardian website 22 September 2009. And at: Pumas Unleashed 23 September 2009, under the title - World view of Obama: Impotent Leader. The Obama administration’s accomplishments on climate change have been a disappointment. Europe has announced donations of $2bn to $15bn a year to help developing nations cope with climate warming, yet Obama has not offered anything close to that amount. Europe also wants binding targets for developed nations, proposing a 20% reduction from 1990 levels. Obama has said such targets should be voluntary but verifiable.


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Stephen Hill Linkography: Renewables


Climate Change, Health, Economy: Three European Tips For Obama
Article: 19 January 2009 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. Europe recently displayed its global leadership by enacting its 20-20-20 plan: agreeing to cut human-produced carbon emissions that contribute to global warming by at least 20% by 2020. They will do this by ramping up renewable energy technologies to 20% of its energy usage, and by enacting the world’s most ambitious carbon trading program. Displaying an important principle that will be crucial to any global climate agreement, the richest European nations agreed to contribute a greater share toward combating climate change than the poorer European nations.

Angela Merkel is Getting it Right
Article: 12 November 2010 - IP Global. Also posted as: Angela Merkel: The World’s Most Valuable Leader - 18 August 2010, Social Europe Journal. Germany and Europe have quietly stepped into the role of global trailblazer and Germany continues to have the largest solar and wind power industry in the world. When European unity was in doubt on this issue, Chancellor Merkel corralled an agreement from the heads of all 27 European Union nations to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent and make renewable energy sources account for 20 percent of the European Union’s energy supply by 2020.


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