Summer Waxing Green Corn Moon
Oh, oh. The neighbor called and said our dogs barked constantly from 3pm to 7pm. He’s home all the time now with his m.s. I empathize with him about barking dogs, even my own, because they drive me nuts, too. I doubt they barked the whole time, but it did probably seem like it. Have to manage them for noise again. That means keeping the two mouthy whippets, Hilo and Emma, inside more. They won’t mind that a bit.
On a sad note tonight was Max’s last night. Tom said today that he and Roxanne had an appointment with the vet tonight. Max was a sweet dog, a wounded soul from his previous owner, but with more depth of character because of it. I’ll miss him.
Worked out and then went into the meeting of the Clean Energy and Renewable Energy Committee. The first hour of the meeting was a presentation by Steve Taff, an ag economist/environmental economist, on low carbon fuel standards. He advocates keeping the focus on reducing carbon build up rather than on the policy tool.
Another important part of his presentation involved the complexity of the various policy areas: low carbon fuel standards, CAFE standards and cap and trade. The tendency, he says, is to consider only one policy area at a time and to ignore the total field of policy initiatives. Keeping the whole field in mind is key to the eventual development of effective green house gas reductions.
Over the upcoming weeks I’ll unpack some of this jargon.
The committee understood the need for taking the initiative with developing legislative priorities. Makes my work easier.
