Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-24 Thread willett
ions about society, combined with a pretty good (if optimistic) analysis of emerging technologies. I haven't loooked for anything more recent. Willett Kempton On 24 Feb 2008, at 15:22, Bram Büscher wrote: Dear All, I was at the Berlin conference of the Human Dimensions of Global C

Re: Great article on global warming deniers

2007-08-07 Thread willett
ot or certainly in the popular press. A recent contact was: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Willett Kempton On 7 Aug 2007, at 15:47, Henrik Selin wrote: On the same topic: Are there any other good analyses (academic and otherwise) of strategies and tactics of climate skeptics in the US? For example

Re: Community-based management of coral reef resources

2007-03-12 Thread willett
he finger. (I took a first aid course too.) I accept blame for pushing the student. He sought his own council from the literature and from oceanographers, then decided. Willett Kempton On 12 Mar 2007, at 08:40, rldavis wrote: The scenario described in the Caldera and Wickett article is

Re: coral reefs and community-based management

2007-03-12 Thread willett
061120fa_fact3 Short review of the science: http://co2.cms.udel.edu/ (click on "Ocean acidification") Willett On 12 Mar 2007, at 07:43, Kai N. Lee wrote: Thanks to Willett for an interesting redirection. I don't really see why climate change makes community-based manage

Re: Montreal and Kyoto Compared

2006-08-29 Thread willett
y" complying with Kyoto are developing the technology of the 21st century. E.g. try Googling: Siemens Wind Power, Vestas, REpower AG, Talisman Beatrice Project, Shell Renewables, or, hey, even the US can do it -- Tesla Motors. Willett Kempton On 29 Aug 2006, at 14:38, Geoffrey Wand

incentives to reduce global warming

2005-11-21 Thread willett
gies for my own hubris). I've published some of this so I won't repeat here. See www.udel.edu/V2G, specifically our two articles in Journal of Power Sources, June 2005. Let me know if you want more info. Hope this is useful. These are solvable problems but as you suggest they will require shifting incentives. Sincerely, Willett Kempton University of Delaware College of Marine Studies, and Center for Energy and Environmental Policy

Re: US public opinion on the environment

2005-11-18 Thread Willett Kempton
ntary (not authors') below reference. - Willett Kempton *Riley Dunlap, 1991, "Public (environmental) Opinion in the 1980s: Clear Consensus, Ambiguous Commitment." Environment, October 1991, pp 10-15, 32-37. [Reviews surveys of change in environmental support. Discusses

Re: Fiction books

2005-10-13 Thread Willett Kempton
the ecological society. Willett Kempton On 13 Oct 2005, at 8:36 AM, Peter Jacques wrote: Hi folks, I am preparing my class for next semester on Urban Enviro Politics, which I teach as an international course. I always like to include literature in the readings, and I already use Do Androids