Tag: bag tax
Taxing for Green Behavior?
Written by Bob Lalasz | March 31st, 2010
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The District of Columbia’s tax on plastic shopping bags has generated $150,000 in revenue while cutting the number of bags handed out by city establishments by 85%. Do you like using taxes to nudge people toward green behavior? How else should government and society be encouraging a deeper shade of green — if at all? Leave a comment below.
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, January 26
Written by Darci Palmquist | January 26th, 2010
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Today’s top 5 green news stories online:
- Can an energy-harvesting soccer ball reduce kerosene use in Africa? (Green Inc.)
- Wind power is on the rise… last year the industry grew 39 percent, despite the economic downturn. (NY Times)
- Just a 5 cent tax on plastic bags can make people bring their own to the grocery store. (The Vine)
- Twenty years later, the Exxon Valdez oil spill still lingers on Alaska’s beaches. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Could a ‘green’ industrial revolution — think electric cars and renewable energy — save Michigan? (The Daily Green)
