The Boston Herald has a piece about how working from home can save the planet.
And I thought the people selling their information products exaggerated! Unlike the get rich quick ads though, this one had no disclaimer!
This is a trend that will affect working at home and telecommuting though, however overblown the hype.
But hey, if your boss let’s you work at home as a result and that’s what you’ve always wanted, I suppose you won’t mind too badly.
I’ve blogged about the findings of this report here. According to the Copenhagen Consensus, the Kyoto measures are overpriced and will likely produce negligible results at best. Here’s how the Global Priority List of the Copenhagen Consensus was derived:
A panel of economic experts, comprising eight of the world’s most distinguished conomists, was invited to consider these issues. The members were Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University, Robert Fogel of the University of Chicago (Nobel laureate), Bruno Frey of the University of Zurich, Justin Yifu Lin of Peking University, Douglass North of Washington University in St Louis (Nobel laureate), Thomas Schelling of the University of Maryland, Vernon Smith of George Mason University(Nobel laureate), and Nancy Stokey of the University of Chicago.
The panel was asked to address the ten challenge areas and to answer the question, “What would be the best ways of advancing global welfare, and particularly the welfare of developing countries, supposing that an additional $50 billion of resources were at governments’ disposal?” Ten challenge papers, commissioned from acknowledged authorities in each area of policy, set out more than 30 proposals for the panel’s consideration. During this week’s conference the panel examined these proposals in detail. Each paper was discussed at length with its principal author and with two other specialists who had been commissioned to write critical appraisals, and then the experts met in private session. The panel then ranked the proposals, in descending order of desirability:
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