Amidst real tragedies, I'm so glad to have been able to send some folks good news this week -- announcing $450k in funding for 6 projects researching transition in fossil fuel host communities through the Resilient Energy Economies Initiative. I'm so excited about this work to make transition better
My awesome colleague Abel Brodeur and his Replication Games (@i4replication.bsky.social) made it on NPR's Planet Money (@planetmoney.bsky.social): www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...
Check whether a game is coming up near you: i4replication.org/games/
Yeah. Americans didn’t pay all of Trump’s 2018 tariffs. Foreigners paid half. You got to look at the transactions data and remember classic supply and demand to see why.
www.nber.org/papers/w34901
À noter @gatineau.ca !
It is quite annoying that all the reporting on CA oil refinery closings don't mention that if we had decent public transportation in the state demand would go down. Instead, it's all- what will the state do????
"The debate is evolving... and that's OK." Insightful conceptualization of climate skepticism @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social !
Awesome pictures! Makes me nostalgic of my free diving adventures on the SB channel coasts. Do you typically scuba dive to take these picture?
a speech that invokes Thucydides *and* Vaclav Havel? You have my attention sir
Congrats Halley, and good luck with the move! I am sure Scandinavia will treat you and your family well.
From our hydro dams to your homes! If New England were to tightens climate policy on its power producers, this new line could lead to "negative" carbon leakage. One social benefit of trading with a decarbonized partner.
“We represent communities living next to refineries and the workers who operate them. Together, we are sounding the alarm - California must not allow oil billionaires and their lobbyists to rewrite refinery safety rules.”-@apen4ej.bsky.social & #USWLocal5
Read more:
calmatters.org/commentary/2...
Awesome workshop, great papers and people, beautiful city.
📢 Call for Papers! The 9th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Econ. will be held in London June 8-9
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. @rmetcalfe.bsky.social
🔗 more details here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
Congestion pricing seems like a great example of a policy where the effects are immediately legible to the public in a way that changes their views. Before, people were unsure; after, most people see the benefits and don't want to go back (see also smoking in bars).
Forest Futures at the University of Ottawa is hiring a postdoctoral fellow and a senior research associate to study forest conservation and management in Canada. (www.linkedin.com/company/fore...)
Re-upping this position before the December 1st application deadline. I'm looking to hire a post-doc - could be a climate scientist or environmental economist. Ideal start early 2026 but could be later. Please circulate!
Jacquelyn Pless in Toronto! Awesome news for Canada. I was starting to get jealous of Switzerland and their recent fancy hires.
Awesome work indeed! Thanks for sharing.
@alexandreshields.bsky.social je crois que ce nouveau cahier de recherche (de @eyalfrank.bsky.social et al) sur la réduction des risques d'accidents de la route grâce à la présence des loups sur la rive nord versus sud du Saint-Laurent saura certainement vous intéresser: www.nber.org/papers/w34377
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
OK, here we go...
I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.
Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
The only questions you ever need to ask of people who want to peddle this issue are:
"What do you mean by merit? How do you measure it? Is there only one definition of merit?"
They will not be able to answer The Qs because they haven't thought about it. Because, in turn, IT'S NOT ABOUT MERIT.
We have had this precise discussion many times before, with the invention of the book, radio, TV, the internet, etc. Knowledge of these discssions are freely available, but apparently the WSJ can't find it or doesn't understand its relevance.
Might this kind of thing be what professors are for?
You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.
Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.
www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...
On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.
The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)
Direct democracy!
Noise reduction benefits from EV adoption in the US estimated at $77.3 billion, concentrated among low-income families in urban areas
www.nber.org/papers/w34298
This argument of "a fully elastic global oil supply curve" seems to be slowly changing in the UK (www.velaw.com/insights/uk-...) Hopefully this can inspire lawmakers in Canada.
Under the UNFCC Canada is not responsible for the downstream combustion emissions of the fossil fuels we export. So we conveniently ignore them (as in Ksi Lisims Assessment and BC and fed announcements today), though those GHGs are more than Canada's territorial emissions to the global atmosphere.
I'm trying really hard to live peacefully with the ones in my basement. It would be so much easier if I didn't get startled by them running away so fast!
