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Archives – Spring 2011

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

ROBERT HUFF, Stack Suite #8, Acrylic, oil, pencil, and gold leaf on paper, 29 × 67 inches, 1994.
Collection of the National Academy of Sciences.
Stack Suite #8
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An Energy Agenda for the New Congress

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

At the beginning of this new Congress, it is already becoming clear that energy policy will have a major place on the agenda. Part of that is because the president made clear… Read More

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Greening the Built Environment

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

There was a stunted debate in Washington and the country in 2009 about climate change that ended the way many debates do these days: with a hung jury and no action. Yet… Read More

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Climate Politics

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Energy and innovation were major themes in the 2011 State of the Union Address. Barack Obama called for investment in “clean energy technology” to “create countless new jobs for our people.” The… Read More

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Washington’s Media Maze

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Policy analysis should not be merely an academic exercise. The goal is to inform and influence public policy, and therefore it has to reach the movers and shakers and the decisionmakers. That… Read More

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Forum – Spring 2011

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Technology innovation: setting the right policies
In “Fighting Innovation Mercantilism” (Issues, Winter 2011), Stephen Ezell has identified a truly vexing problem: the proclivity of important countries (notably China) to… Read More

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From the Hill – Spring 2011

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Obama proposes essentially flat 2012 R&D budget

On February 14, the Obama administration proposed a fiscal year (FY) 2012 R&D budget of $147.9 billion, a $772 million or 0.5% increase from FY… Read More

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The Smart Grid: Separating Perception from Reality

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

There is a widespread expectation in the United States and around the world today that the smart grid is the next big thing, a disruptive technology poised to transform the electric power… Read More

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Is Climate Change a National Security Issue?

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Around the planet there is growing momentum to define climate change as a security issue and hence as an agenda-topping problem that deserves significant attention and resources. In December 2010, for example,… Read More

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New Voices, New Approaches: Drowning in Data

Issues — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000

I was at the most undignified moment of moving into my new office—barefoot and on tiptoes on my desk, arranging books on a high shelf—when one of my fellow professors at the… Read More

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