Finding Climate Hope in the Fog of Trump Ninety-three days in, Trump’s presidency has already been rough going for anyone concerned about climate change.  We need some hope.  To celebrate Earth Day, let’s look at the potential upside—huge, tremendous, big league potential upside—that Donald Trump brings (however inadvertently on his part) to the effort to […]

Dead people have some of the best ideas. Unfortunately, since they aren’t around to tweet, blog, or pop-up on CNN, we sometimes lose track of great thinkers even when their ideas have staying power. And so it is with E.F. Schumacher, author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, a classic first published […]

For better or worse, it’s not just what we say, it’s how we say it.  I have changed this website’s name from “Cap-and-Trade Is Beautiful” to “Cap Carbon Now” for several reasons.   First, “Cap Carbon Now” offers the reader a call to action as opposed to, well, an observation.  Second, it emphasizes the most important […]

Welcome to CapAndTradeIsBeautiful.com.  This post is for testing out the new website.  Please bear with me as I continue to work out the kinks.  Thank you.