{"id":59,"date":"2008-12-20T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-12-20T10:24:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T17:24:38","slug":"obamas-energy-pick-steven-chu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Energy Chief Pick: Steven Chu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong>Energy@Berkeley: Solutions for Global Warming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18:05 Energy efficiency and conservation is and will remain the lowest hanging fruit for the next several decades, there\u2019s no question about this.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFree markets fail when there is what\u2019s called a commons problem. So what\u2019s a commons problem ? It\u2019s a common shared resource. The fish in the ocean is a common shared resource, and so when one country or one sector doesn\u2019t have total control over this resource, they might think \u201cwell, I gotta fish what I can fish, because someone else might over fish and cheat me out of my fair share\u201d, let me put it bluntly, that\u2019s typically what happens , that also happens in air and water pollution issues, sharing of water resources across borders, and the climate change issue and greenhouse gasses is the ultimate commons problem.<\/p>\n<p><em>The choice of Steven Chu provides strong clues as to the direction of Obama\u2019s upcoming Green New Deal:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>21:15 Buildings are 40% of the energy consumption in the United States \u2026 Many many progressive architects tell me you can save a factor of two in energy which would have a payback in five years or less. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HbjJxXgyxGE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HbjJxXgyxGE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Energy@Berkeley: Solutions for Global Warming 18:05 Energy efficiency and conservation is and will remain the lowest hanging fruit for the next several decades, there\u2019s no question about this. &#8230; Free markets fail when there is what\u2019s called a commons problem. So what\u2019s a commons problem ? It\u2019s a common shared resource. The fish in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}