Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts

Stephen Hill Linkography: Eco-Friendly


Captain Nemo’s Dream: How Europe Draws Power
From the Sea

Article: 23 February 2010 - The Globalist. While wind and solar power are the most common forms of renewable energy deployed in Europe, other energy forms are gradually being utilized and show impressive potential. One of these is power derived from the sea. Hill discusses how the EU is developing this unconventional alternative energy source. Europe is experimenting with all sorts of renewable energy and transportation options that previously had limited appeal. They are viewing this as a new industrial revolution.

There's No Place Like Europe: Steven Hill on
Medical House Calls, Multiparty Politics, and
Other American Fantasies

Interview: 18 October 2010 - host Alissa Bohling for Truthout. Some of Europe's governments have managed to keep special interest groups at bay thus facilitating the use of carbon trading markets to lower greenhouse emissions. Another political advantage for Europeans is that they have proportional representation. So they can have a Green Party that gets elected and is in the legislature, pushing their agenda, to the point where environmental policy put forward by the Greens ten and 15 years ago is now mainstream German or Swedish or French or whatever politics.

Europe Needs a Public Relations Makeover
Article: 16 July 2010 - Social Europe Journal. Hill suggests that Europe should start bragging about itself because there is much to brag about. Europe is the leading innovator in preparing for global warming. Jobs are not pitted against the environment! There is widespread deployment of conservation practices and “green design” in everything from automobiles, buildings, light bulbs and toilets that help Europeans reduce their ecological footprint. Additionally, Europe’s green industry of windmills, solar panels and trains, has created hundreds of thousands of new jobs and is exporting its innovations to the world.


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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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Steven Hill Linkography: U.S. Slips

Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico: US Needs a National Energy Policy like Europe’s
Article: 17 May 2010 – Social Europe Journal. Every day that the massive black plume off the Louisiana coast sprays into the sea is a reminder of how much the United States has failed to transition to a modern energy regime. Given the stakes over global warming, Europe has emerged as ‘the indispensable nation’, while the United States, the largest per capita polluter in the world, continues to fiddle as the earth burns.

Hill Proposes European Economic Structure for U.S.
Article: 1 April 2011 By Alex Kessler. On March 30, Hill’s U.S. book tour took him to Georgia Tech to speak on behalf of the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) for the IMPACT Speaker Series. Hill’s arguments boil down to adopting social programs such as free education and healthcare to support families and workers; the less people spend on necessities, the more they can spend commercially, circulating money.

Germany Speaks Out
Article: 12 November 2010 – New York Times. Also published as: Merkel, Germany, Overthrow Obama, U.S., at G-20. Following America’s catalytic role in bringing the global economy to the brink of disaster, followed by Obama’s weakened political position after the Nov. 2 mid-term elections, the U.S. is now losing the global argument over what is the best development model for the 21st century. At the Group of 20 meeting in Seoul Germany spoke out. Let’s hope Obama and Geithner were listening because the world is no longer automatically following America’s lead.

America's Failed Model for the World
Article: September 16, 2009 - The Guardian. As Europeans watch the United States flailing about over something as basic as healthcare, they are reminded once again of the impotent US response following Hurricane Katrina. As one European put it...

The Myth of Europe's High Taxes
Article: 23 February 2010 – On the Commons. This myth is busted! The truth is, Hill points out, that when all the supports and services Europeans and Americans receive are listed on one side of a ledger and the amount of taxes and any additional out-of-pocket fees they pay are listed on the other, it turns out that Americans pay out as much as Europeans – but receive a lot less in return.

French Protesters: 'Where are you Americans?'
Blog: How's Europe Doing - posted: 23 Oct 2010 - The Washington Monthly. During a protest against proposed retirement age legislation in
France, Hill talks to some of the young protesters on the streets in Paris who wonder why young Americans, frustrated and angry over US government policies, are not out protesting like the French.

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