8 Jan 2012

Twitter Digest - January 8, 2011

A cool Instragram of the new Peace Bridge in Calgary

Max Fawcett on executive compensation:

This makes me angry. Feds backtrack on coal rules  

Germany/Denmark don't have the NIMBY problems for renewable projects. Why? Citizen ownership

Paris had the High Line before the High Line was cool

You should know, and understand, greenfield economics if you want to understand urban sprawl -

How green bonds could save the economy -

Municipalities collect 8¢ of each tax dollar paid; they alone cannot rebuild the country's economic foundations:

No less an authority than Ken Rogoff asks if we'll ever outgrow growth -

Why Chevron will settle with Ecuador

While you're at it, read the whole New Yorker piece on Chevron/Ecuador/Donziger. It's a doozy

The libertarian movement in Canada finally has its John Galt, it's Peter Goldring -

The (fiscal) conservative case for bicycle transportation.