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Conflict of Interest at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? A Deal Some Couldn’t Refuse

March 20, 2018/4 Comments/in Climate Change, Corruption, Endangered Species, Energy, Environment, Governance, Money and Investments, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

By Richard McCorkle, Guest Author

As a fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I’ve been concerned about global warming and climate change for more than a quarter century. In the late 1990s, when I finally had the means to do so, I began privately investing in socially and environmentally screened mutual funds. I felt it was the right thing to do; I was putting my money where my mouth was.

The Resilience Imperative and Civil Disobedience

August 19, 2012/3 Comments/in Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Michael Lewis, lead author of “The Resilience Imperative,” advises civil disobedience as a strategy for steady staters.

Economics as if the Laws of Thermodynamics Mattered

May 23, 2012/13 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Everyone who participates in the economy should understand the relevance of entropy to economic production and consumption.

Surely We Can Do Better than Nuclear Socialism

March 21, 2011/3 Comments/in Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Brent Blackwelder suggests that you don’t have to worry about a solar or wind “spill” contaminating the air, land and water.