Resource Economics An Economic Approach to Natural ... [more]

With the publication of his 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish economics professor, became a leading contrarian voice on global warming and a leading opponent of carbon reduction efforts like the Kyoto Protocol.M... [more]

BOONE Topics from environmental ethics to religion and nature will be featured during the 2010 Business and Environmental Ethics Conference Sept. 17 at Appalachian State University. Other topics include environmental economics, strategy and nature,... [more]

Just saying:Appalachian State University has been included in new national rankings related to teaching, affordability and sustainability. The honors come from U.S. News & World Report, Forbes Magazine and Sierra Club Magazine.Appalachian remained No... [more]

Duke and UNC-CH will never be able get along*:Duke Energy will pull the plug on its plan to build up to three wind turbines in North Carolina's Pamlico Sound, the company said today, citing high costs.Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill signed a contract last S... [more]

Thomas Friedman:We need less talk about climate and more about how conservation saves money, renewable energy creates jobs, restoring the gulf's marshes sustains fishermen and preserving the rainforest helps poor people.via www.nytimes.comThe b... [more]

Most of the news was bad (i.e., 0% raises, tuition increases) but this one is good news:Allow campuses to retain energy savings to reinvest in other energy projects.In the past energy savings went back to the state so, other than the mandated savings... [more]