Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got… until it’s gone?
This morning the fine folks of my fair city of Toronto woke up to a strike by city workers, including the outside workers responsible for garbage pickup.
This is as good as a time as any to provide few tips on how to manage your waste when you don’t have he convenience of regular door-to-door pickup.
It wasn’t long ago that policy analysts in North America were circling around each other arguing which was the better policy for pricing carbon: Implementing a cap-and-trade system that would regulate large emitters but give them the flexiility to meet them by trading emissions credits; or setting a carbon tax on all greenhouse gas-producing fuels so that everyone pays the price of pollution?
As the North American debate winds down more or less in favour of implementing a cap-and-trade system sooner than later, the Europeans are having a completely different and far more advanced discussion on the role of taxation on carbon.
