How do you define the 'green' economy?
MNN blogger presents a framework for the green economy to be unveiled on a new website.
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Cleanest energy is the energy we don't use. SO TRUE .... But as to green versus nontoxic, have you noticed the blurring between biologically nontoxic vs environmentally nontoxic? For instance building products billed as "green tech" or "clean tech" are not automatically made to be nontoxic to humans?.... Just one example is polyeurythane insulation that's advertised as ecologically safe Possible that this current compromise on biological in favor of environmental safety is what keeps lots of.... More
And what about chemical industry with its importance on the green world, the production of both bulk and fine chemicals. In the above mentioned 6 main sectors I do not see the green chemistry.
This is something to do on improving the environment also coping with the financial crisis wherein, there is not much effect in the ecology. Green economy is better to establish for a good economy and environmental status. Mike Mayo is known for ruffling feathers wherever he goes. He takes a strictly conservative stance.... More
I love the idea of a Green New Deal. a set of plans to combat pollution and climate change, mirroring the New Deal, a group of economic plans and organizations established by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
If I'm going to be 1 trillion dollars in debt, at least I can leave a cleaner country for my children.
I'd spend it almost entirely on green jobs...the last thing in the world I want is more roads built in more areas....I would build parks & sidewalks & clean up rivers & make our environment primed for the future. That's a green new deal i could live with.
