Tag: energy efficiency

GDP Decoupling from Energy and Resource Use

Jun 2, 2015

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mwkruse

in Economic Development, Environment, Technology (Energy), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Trends: Economic

Harvard Business Review: Stuff: When Less Is More One of the most persistent economic misconceptions I see is the presumed fixed relationship between a unit of GDP and the energy/resources consumed in the process. This false relationship is projected into the future to show that growth is leading to total collapse in the near future.…
Economics Links

Dec 27, 2013

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mwkruse

in Africa, Business, Capitalism and Markets, Crime, Culture, Economics, Environment, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Links – Economics, Poverty, Race, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

1. Carpe Diem: 5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History Fewer people are dying young, and more are living longer. … Global economic growth in the past five decades has dramatically reduced poverty and made people around the world happier. … War is becoming rarer and less deadly. … Rates of…
Saturday Links

Aug 3, 2013

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mwkruse

in Demography, Ecclesia, Generations, Health and Medicine, India, Links – Saturday, Race, Religion, Sociology, Technology (Energy), Trends: Social

1. Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity. 2. Blacks, Hispanics more optimistic than whites … After years of economic attitudes among whites, blacks and Hispanics following similar patterns, whites' confidence…
Saturday Links

Apr 27, 2013

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mwkruse

in Demography, Economics, Environment, Health and Medicine, History, Links – Saturday, Politics, Public Policy, Race, Religion, Science, Socialism, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

1. Research Digest reports that Students motivated by wealth are just as likely as others to help in an emergency "… Seventy-eight per cent of the business students offered some kind of help to the stranger. Sixty-six per cent went so far as refusing to leave the stranger or giving him/her their mobile phone. The…
Improvements in Energy Efficiency and Consumption

Aug 25, 2010

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mwkruse

in Economic News, Environment, Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic

From Carpe Diem The first chart shows a straight downward slope for BTUs per GDP, while the second show a sharp decline in total energy consumption. That tells me that the total energy decline is almost entirely due to the recession. However, starting about 1996, you see a slight flattening of the rate of…
The Elusive Negawatt

May 9, 2008

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mwkruse

in Business, Environment, Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

The Economist: The Elusive Negawatt If energy conservation both saves money and is good for the planet, why don't people do more of it? …MGI is particularly enthusiastic because it believes that unlike most other schemes to reduce emissions, a global energy-efficiency drive would be profitable. The measures it has in mind, all of which…

Tag: energy efficiency

GDP Decoupling from Energy and Resource Use

Economics Links

Saturday Links

Saturday Links

Improvements in Energy Efficiency and Consumption

The Elusive Negawatt