Green-sky proposal

Tackle air-quality issues and you tackle health-care reform

The drag of poor air quality on the economy is mounting, costing the state of California alone close to $30 billion per year and, if my own reckoning is somewhat accurate, about six percent of total U.S. gross domestic product, or about $700 billion, a figure that should sound pretty familiar.
China, which just this year surpassed the U.S. in carbon emissions, or pollution, on a total tonnage basis, figures its poor air quality costs it 5.8% of GDP ... Full Story »

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by Marsha Iverson - Nov. 19, 2008

Kostigen connects the problems of air pollution, health care, and economic recovery in this thoughtful analysis, suggesting that the incoming administration can build its own trifecta of success by linking the solutions.

It's time we recognized that environmental quality is the new industrial/economic niche we've been looking for: tie the overhaul of the failed automotive industry to new jobs and new investments in alternative technologies. We're already at the point where everything we know is wrong. How 'bout we use this crisis to expedite our leap into the next--the Green--Industrial Revolution?

These are the hard facts of pollution and environmental degradation. We can talk nice about policy and politics and programs, but it’s the affects on people with ... More »

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