Heat Waves — In Red and Black

Heat Waves — in Red & Black: Home, sweet carbon-neutral, home

William Rau

Last year, Illinois households burned 422 trillion cubic feet of gas resulting in 23 million metric tons of CO2 emissions. That matches annual tailpipe emissions of 5 million autos. Energy audit crucial in helping improve our house’s energy efficiency by 85 percent

Heat Waves in Red & Black: Putin’s petrostate under kleptocratic ‘reiderstovo’

William Rau

Russian oligarchs are named incorrectly. America has oligarchs, men whose extraordinary wealth can sway governments. As Gilens and Page (2014) show, economic elites and big corporations get their way when Congress crafts legislation whereas ordinary citizens have negligible impact. Wealth…

Heat Waves — In Red & Black: PAYS to provide water like it’s a human right

William Rau

Climate and Equity Jobs Act program helps fight the scarcity and inequality that economics creates Last month, I explored physical shortages of water and nature-based approaches to closing deficits in drinking water. A more common American problem is rapidly accelerating…