Random links
- Carbon In, Carbon Out: Sorting Out the Power Grid
- What sort of carbon footprint do electrical vehicles have in the US? In regions with a high percentage of coal power "charging an electric car sends as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as driving a car rated at 31 to 40 m.p.g., about the same as a current compact model", but where the electricity comes from cleaner fuels "the equivalent miles per gallon is higher than the best of today’s hybrids." (HT: KP)
- Do Children Harvest Your Food?
- "U Roberto Romano's poignant film, The Harvest/La Cosecha (2011), being screened across the country for Farmworker Awareness Week (March 24-29), informs us that nearly 500,000 children as young as six harvest up to 25 percent of all crops in the United States."
- Go public when children die in care, say Alberta protesters
- ”The local chapter of the small national organization wants the provincial government to publicly state how many children die in care each year, and to lift the ban preventing parents from publicly naming children after they've died in care.” See also The Silence of the Press When Children Injured in Foster Care.
- Executive board composition and bank risk taking
- ”... we use difference-in-difference estimations that focus exclusively on mandatory executive retirements and find that younger executive teams increase risk taking, as do board changes that result in a higher proportion of female executives. In contrast, if board changes increase the representation of executives holding Ph.D. degrees, risk taking declines.” Compare to the argument that having few women in the banking sector lead to excessive risk taking and the recent (current?) financial crisis.