From the
Social Security Update, a newsletter put out by the Social Security Administration:
...[Social Security's] eight-story Southeastern Program Service Center in Birmingham, Ala., boasts the largest green roof on any General Services Administration-leased building. The roof reduces the building's carbon footprint with oxygen-producing plants and vegetables. The building also features a raised floor system that provides better ventilation for improved air quality; a "natural light harvesting" system is designed to capture as much natural sunlight as possible; and accessible public transit allows more employees to use public transportation.
By BJORN LOMBORG
ReplyDeleteMay 8, 2009
For two years before Copenhagen Consensus 2008, teams of experts wrote papers identifying the best ways to solve the world's biggest problems: air pollution, conflict, disease, inadequate education, global warming, malnutrition and hunger, sanitation and water challenges, subsidies and trade barriers, terrorism and gender-disparity issues. They identified the investments that would best tackle each challenge and outlined the costs and benefits of each.
A group of prestigious economists -- including five Nobel laureates -- gathered and examined this research. They took the long menu of investments and turned it into a prioritized list of opportunities. At the bottom -- the least cost-effective investment the world could make to respond to any of these problems -- was dealing with climate change through immediate CO2 cuts, as the Kyoto Protocol attempts.
Bjorn Lomborg is the director of the Denmark-based think tank the Copenhagen Consensus Center and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming."