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In politics, there's an old distinction between show horses and work horses. Show horses get attention. Work horses get things done. It's a useful distinction not just for legislators, but also for legal strategies, and it's particularly useful on the...

02 May 2024 12:26am GMT

This post is cross-posted at Legal Planet. For many decades, most people in the United States have obtained their electricity from a large investor-owned utility company (IOU). They had no real choice. Much of U.S. energy law was built on...

04 Dec 2023 7:00pm GMT

We need your help, and it should be fun. But first, some scene setting. It is summer 2023, but it could be last summer, or the next, or the one after that. People are dying in droves from unprecedented heat,...

02 Nov 2023 5:10pm GMT

Scottish author Alistair McIntosh, reflecting on the climate challenge that our communities collectively face, sagely wrote in "Where Now 'Hell and High Water'?" that "consumerism is a false satisifier-just another form of addiction that masks the emptiness." He called upon...

01 Nov 2023 5:00pm GMT

The End of the Good Life In July 2023, twenty environmental law professors gathered beside the Hood River in Oregon to discuss patterns of consumption and how humanity can move forward in this time of polycrisis to have the benefits...

31 Oct 2023 5:00pm GMT

Americans are addicted. We see this all around us. Our addictions range from the pleasurable but mostly innocuous (coffee and caffeine) to more concerning on a society-wide scale (think overeating and obesity) to the pathological and clearly harmful (such as...

30 Oct 2023 5:00pm GMT

In 1972, a group of MIT economists published The Limits to Growth, a study that used computer models to analyze the future of our planet under twelve possible scenarios. In the 50 years since the book's publication, the authors' "business-as-usual"...

29 Oct 2023 5:00pm GMT

Anthropogenic change on Earth is occurring on a scale never seen before. Mounting evidence shows that humans are pushing the planet beyond its systems capacities due to growth of production, consumption, and population. To understand Earth's systems, and to develop...

28 Oct 2023 5:00pm GMT

Human consumption of water imposes externalities on planetary systems, and at all scales. Globally, for example, human impoundments of surface water in reservoirs account for a significant fraction of observed polar drift and have shrunk day length by a few...

27 Oct 2023 5:00pm GMT

Cheetos are undeniably yummy-so much so that I walk quickly past their section in the grocery snacks aisle, eyes locked on the cart. It's not a pretty picture once I succumb and rip open a bag, the Puffs being my...

26 Oct 2023 5:00pm GMT