Now there’s an anti-Greta. HT Benny Peiser. Compost this takeout box; it’s lined with seaweed and “fully recyclable.” HT Waste Dive. Renewable energy costs more than we think.
It Will Cost You $15 If You Don’t Return This Coffee Cup
From E. A. Crunden at “Waste Dive”: The NextGen Cup Consortium, an effort driven by McDonald’s and Starbucks, is debuting reusable cup pilot programs at independent coffee shops around San Francisco and Palo Alto, California. The pilot programs will see reusable cups outfitted with tracking codes and chips introduced in place of traditional disposable…
Monday’s Links
Banks and investment funds “go green,” signaling their virtue. The terrifying effects of groupthink. HT Matt Ridley. Proposal in Takoma Park, Maryland, would ban all gas stations by 2045. And that’s just part of it.
Friday’s Links
Blue whales are back in “astonishing” numbers in the sub-Antarctic.
The U.K. government explains why it is phasing out coal and wet wood from household burning.
See Wallace Kaufman’s three-part series on hunting on this site.
Wallace Kaufman on hunting, Part I: “Hunters and Their Money Are Fading.”
Part II: “Hunters’ Last-Ditch Defenses”
Part III. “Will Anti-Hunters Pay for Their Pleasure?”
Thursday’s Links
A new explanation for warming: fossil fuel drilling heats the Earth from below the surface. California bill would force insurance companies to continue to insure in wildfire-prone areas. Steve Milloy: “Fee-and-dividend” carbon tax is just virtue-signaling by elites.
Is Plastic Good for the Environment?
John Tierney writing in the Wall Street Journal: Evidence mounts that banning plastic is both a waste of money and harmful to the environment. If you want to protect dolphins and sea turtles, you should take special care to place your plastic in the trash, not the recycling bin. And if you’re worried about…