Peter Thiel’s Lessons for Green Firms

  There is a lot of good advice from Peter Thiel in Zero to One. I recommend reading it. Every environmentalist should read chapter 13, ‘Seeing Green’. It gives some great advice on what it will take make clean technology successful. He also explains why too many green firms flop.   7 Basic Questions To … Read more

Wither European Environmental Law?

I am clearing out some old papers and came across some old reports on the Implementation of EU Environmental Law. Well, to be fair, the reports are so old they refer to Community Environmental law.   In light of the new direction in Europe of doing very little, if anything, on the environmental front, and … Read more

Mr Vella’s job interview

If you missed Monday 29 September’s European Parliamentary’s confirmation hearings of Malta’s Karmenu Vella I wanted to provide a recap. He’s been given the reponsibiltiy for both the  Environment agenda and  Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.  A mamouth task made only easier by a seemingly clear signal from the new Commission to do little new on … Read more

How to Scuttle Overfishing? Tax the Catch

A friend recently gave me  a book of Gary S Becker “the Economics of Life”. They are a collection of his articles in Business Week. The late Professor Becker, a Noble Prize winner for Economics, nearly turned down the opportunity to write the column for Businessweek. I am glad he did not. I’ve been working on … Read more