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Since 2002, Pruitt has received more than $300,000 in contributions from the fossil fuel industry and in 2014 even allowed Devon Energy, an Oklahoma oil and gas firm, to write a three-page complaint to the EPA on his letterhead. MORE
Even if you are a scrooge who shrieks at the sound of christmas music, you’ll still enjoy baking, decorating, wrapping and swaying to the 2002 Christmas compilation of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. Click here to view the embedded video. In this week before the holiday festivities ensue, it feels appropriate to turn on the christmas tunes. MORE
Oops.and then they apparently tried to cover it up: The most senior VW officer listed in the indictment is Martin Winterkorn who was CEO of Audi from 2002 to 2007, when the original defeat device was developed, and CEO of VW from 2007 until resigning on September 23, 2015. MORE
The most detailed scientific study of the world’s greatest biodiversity was compiled by The Center for Tropical Forest Science, a consortium of forestry agencies, universities, research institutes and other nongovernmental agencies and published by the Smithsonian Institution in 2002. . MORE
Richard Thaler – I’m kind of surprised that Thaler, one of the main behavioral guys, didn’t share the prize with Dan Kahneman in 2002, so I root for him each year. MORE
2002); reprinted in Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine (Issue 3, Spring 2004); translated into Polish and reprinted in Nowa Fantastika (January 2006); translated into Hebrew and reprinted in Bli-Panika (2006). MORE
In 2002, the Texan filmmaker began a 12-year commitment Read More The post Richard Linklater Debuts ‘Veghood’ For PETA appeared first on Ecorazzi. With the Academy Awards ceremony just days away, director Richard Linklater, nominated for “Boyhood,” spoofs his flick for a good cause. Eats Film/TV News Top News Vegan Vegetarian richard linklater MORE
They find cost savings in 2002, with the Acid Rain Program in full swing, of approximately $250 million from trade in emission allowances. The researchers find a greater level of particulate air pollution and associated premature mortality under the Acid Rain Program than under a hypothetical no-trade scenario in which units emitted SO 2 at a rate equal to 2002 allowance allocations plus observed drawdowns of their allowance banks. MORE
Sharpe, a senior airman in the United States Air Force, has an unfortunately all too familiar story of suffering and loss following a military deployment in 2002 to Saudi Read More The post Rescue Dogs Save Veterans From Committing Suicide appeared first on Ecorazzi. David E. MORE
Binge drinking among 12- to 20-year-olds has steadily declined since 2002 and is now at the lowest rate in more than a decade, a government study reported today. via www.dispatch.com. Yes, I know today is Thursday. But I'm out tomorrow and I don't feel like setting the delayed post MORE
No workshops were held in 1998, 2002 and 2006 due to the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists. MORE
The release, published to mark the start of Climate Week (4 to 8 March 2013), shows: · Use of vehicle fuel remained relatively flat between 2002 and 2007 before falling 24% per head in the next five years. · Air travel increased by 13% between Q3 2002 and Q3 2012. Between Q3 2002 and Q3 2012 households consumption fell 18% per head. Between Q1 2002 and Q4 2007 households’ consumption of air travel went up 42% per head. MORE
Since 2002, EcoFlight has flown concerned people above forests, mountains and wetlands to share a unique perspective of the way nature interacts with harmful industries. MORE
million readers/month, #1 in US twice for #green on Twitter, bringing "the mindful life" beyond the choir since 2002. elephantjournal.com isn''t your momma''s blog: 1.7 MORE
A New Way to Think About the New Year: Something Has to Die for Something New to be Born It’s Tempting to Just Close the Door on the Past Research suggests that only eight percent of people achieve New Year’s resolutions (University of Scranton, 2002). MORE
1 (2002), pp. From the Harvard Press Release: The Publication of Enduring Quality (PEQ) award of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) recognizes works that are of seminal nature and with enduring value in environmental and resource economics. This year, AERE recognized two influential empirical papers on induced innovation in environmental economics: "The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change," by Richard G. Newell, Adam B. MORE
The next month Peter Stroh, who died in 2002, agreed to sell the family business to Coors for $425 million. My first beer was Stroh's: In August 1989 the Stroh Brewery Co. was in retreat. The company that had treated employees like family laid off 300 people, one-fifth of its white-collar workforce. “I I had to let go four of the five people in the marketing research department. It was heartbreaking,” remembers Ed Benfield, former director of market research at Stroh. MORE
It ranks fourth in the world for murders of environmental activists (after Brazil, Honduras, and the Philippines), with 57 activists in the country killed from 2002 to 2013 , according to campaigners Global Witness. Edwin Chota was killed in the forest he had fought to protect. MORE
In 2002, a killer whale was spotted alone and emaciated in Puget Sound, near Seattle, Washington. Researchers kept a close watch on her, and determined after several months to bring Read More The post First Rehabbed and Reintegrated Killer Whale is Now a Mom appeared first on Ecorazzi. MORE
In 2002, the damages totaled as high as $175 billion, and the decline in the past decade highlights the success of more stringent emissions regulations on the energy sector while also pointing out the need to continue cracking down. Using an up-to-date model and a set of data acquired from the Environmental Protection Agency on emissions from the energy sector, the researchers set about estimating the monetary damages caused by air pollution from energy production between 2002 and 2011. MORE
The limit was increased in 2002 to 12 percent from 6 percent, where it had been since the end of Prohibition in 1933. Ohioans could buy beer with a whopping 18 percent alcohol content under a provision in the state budget proposed yesterday by Senate Republicans. After holding the line on alcohol content in beer for 69 years, lawmakers might be poised to increase it for the second time in a decade. MORE
The study included sales data over an eight-year period – from 2002 to 2010 – to capture property values before, during and after the wind farm’s development. Published in a recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics , the study is believed the first peer-reviewed study on this issue in Canada. MORE
It’s the one that arises when people use eBird without realizing that the Wilson’s Snipe was split from Common Snipe back in 2002, and trigger a rare bird alert by using the name of the Asian species for everyday American birds. MORE
Here is a 2007 lament when the AERE tree was morphing into the cypress tree that served as the icon for the 2002 World Congress. From the inbox, the new JEEM cover has a recycling icon? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 1. MORE
2 (2002): 285-297. From the inbox: I often read your "cromulent" blog and know that you are an expert in CVM. I am working on my master thesis applying CVM to. I plan to use double-bounded dichotomous questions to elicit WTP. I want to ask you whether there is a way to control for incentive incompatibility and starting point bias. If it is available, could you please point me to the guidance material? MORE
Nick Athanas, Iain Campbell, Paul Coopmans, and Richard White set the record back in March of 2002 in Ecuador and I can find no record of someone having topped that mark since. Pat O’Donnell over at Costa Rica Living and Birding maps out a potential hummingbird-only big day route that could net the ambitious birder forty species of hummingbird in one day in Costa Rica (and potentially more). MORE
The nine stories touch on various iterations of evolution, spanning a 20-year writing period starting in the 1980s with "Arc of Time" first published by The Armchair Aesthete in 2002 to "Julia''s Gift" written in 2007, a significant year in my personal evolution. MORE
India (2002). Bangladesh (2002). Since the late 1970s, plastic bags have. become a staple and an iconic image of shopping. They are such common place that people expect them to be readily available and think little of throwing them away or even discarding them on the ground. MORE
Let’s see some examples: The first country to ban single-use plastic bags was Bangladesh in 2002 when plastic bag litter clogged drainage channels and contributed to destructive floods. In Ireland, where this fee was instituted in 2002, plastic bag usage decreased by about 90 percent. MORE
In 2002, Craig DeMartino miraculously survived a 100-foot fall after a miscommunication with his climbing partner. Click here to view the embedded video. Watch the video above to hear his story. Via: Matador TV ]. Related posts: Speed Climbing With Ueli Steck. Climber Survives 1,300 Foot Fall. Climbing at 39 Weeks Pregnant MORE
In 2002, tens of thousands of adult salmon died out due to Read More The post California Basin Directs Water to Protect Klamath River Salmon appeared first on Ecorazzi. As the California drought carries on, a federal agency has acted decisively to protect its resident salmon population. MORE
Curlew Sandpipers aren’t even from the New World and the only singular record thus far was in 2002. Faraaz Abdool is a freelance conservation and wildlife photographer and writer who specializes in birds and the issues they face worldwide. MORE
I met Anthony Bourdain in 2002 at a tiny bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was discussing a mystery novel he’d written prior to A Cook's Tour. A few years, earlier I had. Academy Apprentice/Audit Blogs Apprentice Thesis Elephant Academy Enlightened Society Health & Wellness Anthony Bourdain celebrity death death fear grief Mental Illness speak your truth suicide MORE
In 2002 I was a passenger on flight #606 into San Francisco. It was an usually turbulent re-entry. Adventure Meditation airplanes Fear of Flying fears flying meditation travel MORE
The journal, Business Ethics Quarterly , has added an editorial notice to a 2002 paper by Jensen, noting its similarity to a 2001 paper and another 2001 paper. Read the rest here: Famous Harvard economist reused parts of 2002 paper multiple times, says journal MORE
The following maps I created on eBird show the dramatic growth in the spread of the Eurasian Collared-Dove from 2002 to 2014. This first map is data from 2002 through 2003. MORE
Nature reserve since 2002. LABUDOVO OKNO Ramsar Site and an Important Bird Area represents a section of the Danube floodplain downriver from Belgrade, Serbia, and situated in the south of the Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve. MORE
Only 1992 and 2002 scored as high or higher, but those were years of sustained droughts, meaning there was little runoff water to wash pollutants into the bay. Having grown up in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, it's good the hear that it looks like years of effort to improve the Bay's water quality might be paying off : Conditions may be "poor to moderate" in Chesapeake Bay but scientists still found a reason to celebrate. MORE
The most common mating strategy in birds is social monogamy, found in roughly 92% of birds species in the world (Jenni 1974, Owens 2002). phalaropes, jacanas, etc) (Jenni 1974, Owens 2002). MORE
She was named ‘Hottest Female Athlete’ in 2002, and won 2 doubles grand slam titles with Martina Hingis in 1997 and 2002. MORE
Ash borers were first discovered in 2002 near Detroit, where they likely had hitched a ride in wooden packing crates shipped from China. I wonder if any NC State economists think this one is exaggerated ? MORE
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At 3:30am on August 28th, a Pleasanton family’s 2002 Toyota Prius was vandalized and stolen from their Lake Tahoe vacation home driveway. By a bear. MORE
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Environmental Economics
JUNE 11, 2015
Binge drinking among 12- to 20-year-olds has steadily declined since 2002 and is now at the lowest rate in more than a decade, a government study reported today. via www.dispatch.com. Yes, I know today is Thursday. But I'm out tomorrow and I don't feel like setting the delayed post
Wend Magazine
OCTOBER 20, 2011
In 2002, Craig DeMartino miraculously survived a 100-foot fall after a miscommunication with his climbing partner. Click here to view the embedded video. Watch the video above to hear his story. Via: Matador TV ]. Related posts: Speed Climbing With Ueli Steck. Climber Survives 1,300 Foot Fall. Climbing at 39 Weeks Pregnant
Eccorazzi
MARCH 17, 2014
Sharpe, a senior airman in the United States Air Force, has an unfortunately all too familiar story of suffering and loss following a military deployment in 2002 to Saudi Read More The post Rescue Dogs Save Veterans From Committing Suicide appeared first on Ecorazzi. David E.
Environmental Economics
JUNE 4, 2018
The journal, Business Ethics Quarterly , has added an editorial notice to a 2002 paper by Jensen, noting its similarity to a 2001 paper and another 2001 paper. Read the rest here: Famous Harvard economist reused parts of 2002 paper multiple times, says journal
Environmental Economics
JUNE 15, 2017
1 (2002), pp. From the Harvard Press Release: The Publication of Enduring Quality (PEQ) award of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) recognizes works that are of seminal nature and with enduring value in environmental and resource economics. This year, AERE recognized two influential empirical papers on induced innovation in environmental economics: "The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change," by Richard G. Newell, Adam B.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 26, 2020
Nature reserve since 2002. LABUDOVO OKNO Ramsar Site and an Important Bird Area represents a section of the Danube floodplain downriver from Belgrade, Serbia, and situated in the south of the Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve.
Elephant Journal
AUGUST 14, 2018
I met Anthony Bourdain in 2002 at a tiny bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was discussing a mystery novel he’d written prior to A Cook's Tour. A few years, earlier I had. Academy Apprentice/Audit Blogs Apprentice Thesis Elephant Academy Enlightened Society Health & Wellness Anthony Bourdain celebrity death death fear grief Mental Illness speak your truth suicide
Eccorazzi
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
In 2002, the Texan filmmaker began a 12-year commitment Read More The post Richard Linklater Debuts ‘Veghood’ For PETA appeared first on Ecorazzi. With the Academy Awards ceremony just days away, director Richard Linklater, nominated for “Boyhood,” spoofs his flick for a good cause. Eats Film/TV News Top News Vegan Vegetarian richard linklater
Elephant Journal
MAY 1, 2016
In 2002 I was a passenger on flight #606 into San Francisco. It was an usually turbulent re-entry. Adventure Meditation airplanes Fear of Flying fears flying meditation travel
Eccorazzi
AUGUST 25, 2015
In 2002, tens of thousands of adult salmon died out due to Read More The post California Basin Directs Water to Protect Klamath River Salmon appeared first on Ecorazzi. As the California drought carries on, a federal agency has acted decisively to protect its resident salmon population.
Wend Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
Since 2002, EcoFlight has flown concerned people above forests, mountains and wetlands to share a unique perspective of the way nature interacts with harmful industries.
Environmental Economics
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
They find cost savings in 2002, with the Acid Rain Program in full swing, of approximately $250 million from trade in emission allowances. The researchers find a greater level of particulate air pollution and associated premature mortality under the Acid Rain Program than under a hypothetical no-trade scenario in which units emitted SO 2 at a rate equal to 2002 allowance allocations plus observed drawdowns of their allowance banks.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2013
Nick Athanas, Iain Campbell, Paul Coopmans, and Richard White set the record back in March of 2002 in Ecuador and I can find no record of someone having topped that mark since. Pat O’Donnell over at Costa Rica Living and Birding maps out a potential hummingbird-only big day route that could net the ambitious birder forty species of hummingbird in one day in Costa Rica (and potentially more).
Environmental Economics
MARCH 15, 2016
In 2002, the damages totaled as high as $175 billion, and the decline in the past decade highlights the success of more stringent emissions regulations on the energy sector while also pointing out the need to continue cracking down. Using an up-to-date model and a set of data acquired from the Environmental Protection Agency on emissions from the energy sector, the researchers set about estimating the monetary damages caused by air pollution from energy production between 2002 and 2011.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Curlew Sandpipers aren’t even from the New World and the only singular record thus far was in 2002. Faraaz Abdool is a freelance conservation and wildlife photographer and writer who specializes in birds and the issues they face worldwide.
Environmental Economics
AUGUST 15, 2014
2 (2002): 285-297. From the inbox: I often read your "cromulent" blog and know that you are an expert in CVM. I am working on my master thesis applying CVM to. I plan to use double-bounded dichotomous questions to elicit WTP. I want to ask you whether there is a way to control for incentive incompatibility and starting point bias. If it is available, could you please point me to the guidance material?
Environmental Economics
JUNE 1, 2011
The limit was increased in 2002 to 12 percent from 6 percent, where it had been since the end of Prohibition in 1933. Ohioans could buy beer with a whopping 18 percent alcohol content under a provision in the state budget proposed yesterday by Senate Republicans. After holding the line on alcohol content in beer for 69 years, lawmakers might be poised to increase it for the second time in a decade.
Wend Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Even if you are a scrooge who shrieks at the sound of christmas music, you’ll still enjoy baking, decorating, wrapping and swaying to the 2002 Christmas compilation of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. Click here to view the embedded video. In this week before the holiday festivities ensue, it feels appropriate to turn on the christmas tunes.
Elephant Journal
JUNE 13, 2013
million readers/month, #1 in US twice for #green on Twitter, bringing "the mindful life" beyond the choir since 2002. elephantjournal.com isn''t your momma''s blog: 1.7
Elephant Journal
DECEMBER 5, 2018
A New Way to Think About the New Year: Something Has to Die for Something New to be Born It’s Tempting to Just Close the Door on the Past Research suggests that only eight percent of people achieve New Year’s resolutions (University of Scranton, 2002).
Green (Living) Review
MARCH 4, 2013
The release, published to mark the start of Climate Week (4 to 8 March 2013), shows: · Use of vehicle fuel remained relatively flat between 2002 and 2007 before falling 24% per head in the next five years. · Air travel increased by 13% between Q3 2002 and Q3 2012. Between Q3 2002 and Q3 2012 households consumption fell 18% per head. Between Q1 2002 and Q4 2007 households’ consumption of air travel went up 42% per head.
Environmental Economics
DECEMBER 9, 2014
The study included sales data over an eight-year period – from 2002 to 2010 – to capture property values before, during and after the wind farm’s development. Published in a recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics , the study is believed the first peer-reviewed study on this issue in Canada.
The Alien Next Door
JULY 3, 2013
The nine stories touch on various iterations of evolution, spanning a 20-year writing period starting in the 1980s with "Arc of Time" first published by The Armchair Aesthete in 2002 to "Julia''s Gift" written in 2007, a significant year in my personal evolution.
Eccorazzi
MAY 23, 2011
She was named ‘Hottest Female Athlete’ in 2002, and won 2 doubles grand slam titles with Martina Hingis in 1997 and 2002.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2017
It’s the one that arises when people use eBird without realizing that the Wilson’s Snipe was split from Common Snipe back in 2002, and trigger a rare bird alert by using the name of the Asian species for everyday American birds.
Environmental Economics
AUGUST 26, 2013
Ash borers were first discovered in 2002 near Detroit, where they likely had hitched a ride in wooden packing crates shipped from China. I wonder if any NC State economists think this one is exaggerated ?
Green (Living) Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
It ranks fourth in the world for murders of environmental activists (after Brazil, Honduras, and the Philippines), with 57 activists in the country killed from 2002 to 2013 , according to campaigners Global Witness. Edwin Chota was killed in the forest he had fought to protect.
Environmental Economics
DECEMBER 23, 2013
Here is a 2007 lament when the AERE tree was morphing into the cypress tree that served as the icon for the 2002 World Congress. From the inbox, the new JEEM cover has a recycling icon? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 1.
The Alien Next Door
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
2002); reprinted in Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine (Issue 3, Spring 2004); translated into Polish and reprinted in Nowa Fantastika (January 2006); translated into Hebrew and reprinted in Bli-Panika (2006).
Environmental Economics
JULY 19, 2016
Oops.and then they apparently tried to cover it up: The most senior VW officer listed in the indictment is Martin Winterkorn who was CEO of Audi from 2002 to 2007, when the original defeat device was developed, and CEO of VW from 2007 until resigning on September 23, 2015.
Green (Living) Review
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Since 2002, Pruitt has received more than $300,000 in contributions from the fossil fuel industry and in 2014 even allowed Devon Energy, an Oklahoma oil and gas firm, to write a three-page complaint to the EPA on his letterhead.
Wend Magazine
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
At 3:30am on August 28th, a Pleasanton family’s 2002 Toyota Prius was vandalized and stolen from their Lake Tahoe vacation home driveway. By a bear.
Greentumble
AUGUST 2, 2018
The most detailed scientific study of the world’s greatest biodiversity was compiled by The Center for Tropical Forest Science, a consortium of forestry agencies, universities, research institutes and other nongovernmental agencies and published by the Smithsonian Institution in 2002. .
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
The following maps I created on eBird show the dramatic growth in the spread of the Eurasian Collared-Dove from 2002 to 2014. This first map is data from 2002 through 2003.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2012
The most common mating strategy in birds is social monogamy, found in roughly 92% of birds species in the world (Jenni 1974, Owens 2002). phalaropes, jacanas, etc) (Jenni 1974, Owens 2002).
Environmental Economics
OCTOBER 11, 2013
Richard Thaler – I’m kind of surprised that Thaler, one of the main behavioral guys, didn’t share the prize with Dan Kahneman in 2002, so I root for him each year.
Environmental Economics
JULY 9, 2013
No workshops were held in 1998, 2002 and 2006 due to the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Environmental Economics
AUGUST 1, 2014
The next month Peter Stroh, who died in 2002, agreed to sell the family business to Coors for $425 million. My first beer was Stroh's: In August 1989 the Stroh Brewery Co. was in retreat. The company that had treated employees like family laid off 300 people, one-fifth of its white-collar workforce. “I I had to let go four of the five people in the marketing research department. It was heartbreaking,” remembers Ed Benfield, former director of market research at Stroh.
Greentumble
APRIL 29, 2018
India (2002). Bangladesh (2002). Since the late 1970s, plastic bags have. become a staple and an iconic image of shopping. They are such common place that people expect them to be readily available and think little of throwing them away or even discarding them on the ground.
Environmental Economics
JUNE 14, 2016
Only 1992 and 2002 scored as high or higher, but those were years of sustained droughts, meaning there was little runoff water to wash pollutants into the bay. Having grown up in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, it's good the hear that it looks like years of effort to improve the Bay's water quality might be paying off : Conditions may be "poor to moderate" in Chesapeake Bay but scientists still found a reason to celebrate.
Greentumble
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Let’s see some examples: The first country to ban single-use plastic bags was Bangladesh in 2002 when plastic bag litter clogged drainage channels and contributed to destructive floods. In Ireland, where this fee was instituted in 2002, plastic bag usage decreased by about 90 percent.
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