{"id":243600,"date":"2010-01-28T17:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:47:47","slug":"video-the-facts-of-cap-and-trade-from-an-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243600","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Facts of Cap and Trade, From an Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDF is known for unconventional tactics. We often experiment with new ideas to find the ways that work. However, this time I had a chance to do something truly off-the-wall.<\/p>\n<p>I was asked to make a video with the coalition <a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.cleanenergyworks.us\/\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanenergyworks.us\/\">Clean Energy Works<\/a> that explains cap and trade in a way that non-economists could understand, i.e., in English. (And with clever animation.)<\/p>\n<p>What were they thinking?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the idea was just crazy enough to work. Here are a couple of reactions so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/daily.sightline.org\/daily_score\/archive\/2010\/01\/21\/the-facts-of-cap-and-trade\"  href=\"http:\/\/daily.sightline.org\/daily_score\/archive\/2010\/01\/21\/the-facts-of-cap-and-trade\">Sightline Daily<\/a> calls it \u201cthoughtful and friendly\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Treehugger said it&#039;s a \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/01\/facts-cap-trade-video.php\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/01\/facts-cap-trade-video.php\">brief but relatively thorough explanation<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check it out, let us know what you think, and spread the word.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=Zj4OfE5myqQ:yTgIVTv-Lo0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=Zj4OfE5myqQ:yTgIVTv-Lo0:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=Zj4OfE5myqQ:yTgIVTv-Lo0:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=Zj4OfE5myqQ:yTgIVTv-Lo0:u0Zhe-nyOHo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=u0Zhe-nyOHo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=Zj4OfE5myqQ:yTgIVTv-Lo0:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/environmentaldefense\/~4\/Zj4OfE5myqQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDF is known for unconventional tactics. We often experiment with new ideas to find the ways that work. However, this time I had a chance to do something truly off-the-wall. I was asked to make a video with the coalition Clean Energy Works that explains cap and trade in a way that non-economists could understand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}