Showing posts with label European Commission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European Commission. 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: New Europe

The European Way for America?
Panel discussion topic - Europe's Promise: 20 May 2010 - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Panelists: Steven Hill, Kimberly Morgan, George Washington University; Mitchell Orenstein, Johns Hopkins University. Hill argues that Europe is uniquely well-suited to meet the challenges of the 21st century and that America has some catching up to do. In the discussion that ensued the panelists point out the book offers a rich trove of best practices in Europe, however, it would be a mistake to look for a single European way to compare with the US as both systems have something to learn from each other.

Europe’s Case of ‘Chief Executive Envy’
Article: March 19, 2010 – Social Europe Journal. The Lisbon Treaty went into effect late in 2009 and created a president for the European Council and a high representative for foreign affairs and security. That treaty and those two new offices were supposed to launch a new Europe that would cease ‘punching below its weight’, and finally provide an answer to Henry Kissinger’s bedeviling question: ‘Who do I call if I want to call Europe?

Troy Schneider Interviews Steven Hill
Video: Interview held 20 January 2010 - on Europe's Promise, at the New America Foundation, host Troy Schneider. A lively interview where Hill discusses European approaches to the economy, global warming, politics, social democracy and other topics covered in his book. He describes the European Union as the 'new kid on the block' and goes on to explain how Europe's robust new standard for developing a modern society is taking care of its people in an environmentally sustainable way.


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