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...lighting systems. Contends Amory Lovins, director of research at the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute: "The technology exists today to save 75% of the electricity and 80% of the oil used in the U.S. without lowering our standard of living at all." Several electric utilities are leading the way in making companies more conservation-conscious. Southern California Edison runs 50 different energy-management programs, which helped hold the growth in demand for the utility's electricity to 2.1% over the past decade, in contrast to 4.1% from...
Coalition members plan to monitor which companies abide by the Valdez Principles and to publicize the findings. In that way, environmentally conscious citizens would be able to decide which firms are best to buy products from, invest in and work for. If this strategy succeeds, companies will find that protecting the environment will be the best way to protect profits...
Candidate Bush produced fine environmental rhetoric, but this commitment has gradually given way to mixed signals and throat clearing. Lack of federal leadership has led to regulatory chaos as states and municipalities, going it alone, have passed scores of differing environmental statutes. Other nations now find it easy to dismiss American calls for action. If the Bush Administration is to assert its promised international leadership, it must take action to reassure the world that it is serious about dealing with environmental threats...
...best way to do this is to raise energy prices and let free-market forces do the job of stimulating conservation. First, the federal gasoline tax should be increased substantially -- to at least 60 cents per gal., from the current 9 cents per gal., over the next four years. At the same time, the Government could begin setting up a program to tax the use of all fossil fuels. The size of the tax should vary according to how much carbon is released into the atmosphere when a particular fuel is burned. That would encourage a shift in consumption patterns...
...cannot be expected to do so without an enormous influx of funds and technology from the North. According to Kenneth Piddington, director of the World Bank's Environment Department, the crucial question is, "Are the rich countries of a mind to organize the transfer of resources in such a way that the Thailands and Indonesias of this world are actually going to benefit materially from the way they have dealt with their environmental agenda?" Arranging such a transfusion is perhaps the central challenge facing all the nations of the world today...