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Europe Energized
Article: 8 June 2010 - The New York Times/International Herald Tribune. The average European today emits half the carbon of an average American and uses far less electricity. It takes 40 percent more fuel for an American car to drive a mile than a European car. Europe overall has managed to reduce its ecological footprint to half that of the United States for the same standard of living.
Article: 8 June 2010 - The New York Times/International Herald Tribune. The average European today emits half the carbon of an average American and uses far less electricity. It takes 40 percent more fuel for an American car to drive a mile than a European car. Europe overall has managed to reduce its ecological footprint to half that of the United States for the same standard of living.
October 7, 2010: 'Europe Energized?' With Steven Hill
and Hans-Josef Fell (English)
Discussion: 7 October 2010 - held at the Free University Berlin. Steven Hill discussed the challenges of sustainable energy policy and politics in the USA and Germany with Hans-Josef Fell, energy spokesperson for the German Greens. Moderator, Miranda Schreurs, director of the Centre for Environmental Policy Research at the FU. The discussion was opened to the audience and continued for at least another half an hour, with far more interesting questions than could be dealt with!
and Hans-Josef Fell (English)
Discussion: 7 October 2010 - held at the Free University Berlin. Steven Hill discussed the challenges of sustainable energy policy and politics in the USA and Germany with Hans-Josef Fell, energy spokesperson for the German Greens. Moderator, Miranda Schreurs, director of the Centre for Environmental Policy Research at the FU. The discussion was opened to the audience and continued for at least another half an hour, with far more interesting questions than could be dealt with!
Will US Be Able to Deliver on Its Deal with China to Reduce Carbon Emissions?
Article: 17 Nov 2014 - China-US Focus. Presidents Xi Jingping and Barack Obama recently reached a bilateral agreement to reduce carbon emissions. The landmark agreement, jointly announced in Beijing, includes new targets for carbon emissions reductions of 26 to 28% from the United States by 2025.
Article: 17 Nov 2014 - China-US Focus. Presidents Xi Jingping and Barack Obama recently reached a bilateral agreement to reduce carbon emissions. The landmark agreement, jointly announced in Beijing, includes new targets for carbon emissions reductions of 26 to 28% from the United States by 2025.
Obama Needs an Energy Policy Like Europe's: Lessons From the Gulf of Mexico
Blog posted: 29 June 2010 - Huffington Post. Also posted as: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico - 17 May 2010, Social Europe Journal. Europe has built an impressive network of routes for high-speed trains that crisscross the continent, with even more in the works funded by $27.5 billion earmarked by the EU. But the US really has no high-speed train lines to speak of, and Obama has allocated only $8 billion for construction. That's too bad because trains emit only a third of the carbon per passenger compared to air travel.
Blog posted: 29 June 2010 - Huffington Post. Also posted as: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico - 17 May 2010, Social Europe Journal. Europe has built an impressive network of routes for high-speed trains that crisscross the continent, with even more in the works funded by $27.5 billion earmarked by the EU. But the US really has no high-speed train lines to speak of, and Obama has allocated only $8 billion for construction. That's too bad because trains emit only a third of the carbon per passenger compared to air travel.
Inspiration Across the Pond
Article: 29 March 2010 - E’Sharp. Hill explains why the failure of Copenhagen was a failure of Obama to deliver, not Europe. Although the US is by far the largest per capita carbon emitter in the world, Obama pledged to reduce carbon emissions by a paltry 4 percent from 1990 levels. Europe offered 20 percent by 2020, and 30 percent if the US would match it. But Obama knew he did not have enough votes to push the legislation through the US Senate, so instead, he turned to the Chinese for a deal without including the EU.
Article: 29 March 2010 - E’Sharp. Hill explains why the failure of Copenhagen was a failure of Obama to deliver, not Europe. Although the US is by far the largest per capita carbon emitter in the world, Obama pledged to reduce carbon emissions by a paltry 4 percent from 1990 levels. Europe offered 20 percent by 2020, and 30 percent if the US would match it. But Obama knew he did not have enough votes to push the legislation through the US Senate, so instead, he turned to the Chinese for a deal without including the EU.
Book Review: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Reviewed in: The National Memo, 1 Nov, 2014 - Hill reviews book by Naomi Klein. Naomi Klein’s new book is a call to arms in the global fight to reduce carbon emissions. She is a skilled journalist who knows how to marshal facts, write stories and provide evidence about a potentially bleak, carbon-choked future.
Reviewed in: The National Memo, 1 Nov, 2014 - Hill reviews book by Naomi Klein. Naomi Klein’s new book is a call to arms in the global fight to reduce carbon emissions. She is a skilled journalist who knows how to marshal facts, write stories and provide evidence about a potentially bleak, carbon-choked future.
Windmills, Tides, and Solar Besides: The European Way of Energy, Transportation, and Low Carbon Emissions
Article: February 2013 - Environmental Law Reporter. Europe leads and the U.S. lags in one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century — ecological sustainability. Picture windmills, tidal turbines, and solar panels on rooftops, dotting the picturesque landscape.
Article: February 2013 - Environmental Law Reporter. Europe leads and the U.S. lags in one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century — ecological sustainability. Picture windmills, tidal turbines, and solar panels on rooftops, dotting the picturesque landscape.
Europe vs the US: Seven Reflections
Article: 26 January 2010 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. Europe leads in readiness for global warming with widespread deployment of common sense conservation practices and ‘green design’, as well as renewable energy technologies like solar and wind power, more efficient mass transit and more. It’s created hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Europe’s ecological ‘footprint’ (the amount of the earth’s capacity that a population consumes) is about half that of the US for the same standard of living.
Article: 26 January 2010 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. Europe leads in readiness for global warming with widespread deployment of common sense conservation practices and ‘green design’, as well as renewable energy technologies like solar and wind power, more efficient mass transit and more. It’s created hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Europe’s ecological ‘footprint’ (the amount of the earth’s capacity that a population consumes) is about half that of the US for the same standard of living.
Germany Leads Europe's Wind and Solar
Energy Revolution
Article: 28 October 2008 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. Hill takes note of the 'eco-friendly' principle in practice: "While Passing through Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, my eye is struck by the escalators turning off automatically when no one is standing on the belt. They are a model of energy efficiency and design, as are (as I discover on my travels) the low flush, two- or three-button toilets and the motion-sensitive hallway lights in most European hotels, museums and households. The bulbs are the new low wattage kind that yields the same luminosity for a fifth of the power, instead of the incendiary 100 watt fireballs still used in most American living rooms and office."
Energy Revolution
Article: 28 October 2008 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. Hill takes note of the 'eco-friendly' principle in practice: "While Passing through Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, my eye is struck by the escalators turning off automatically when no one is standing on the belt. They are a model of energy efficiency and design, as are (as I discover on my travels) the low flush, two- or three-button toilets and the motion-sensitive hallway lights in most European hotels, museums and households. The bulbs are the new low wattage kind that yields the same luminosity for a fifth of the power, instead of the incendiary 100 watt fireballs still used in most American living rooms and office."
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