Articles by Jonathan Hiskes
Jonathan Hiskes is a writer in Seattle and a former Grist staff reporter. Find him at jonathanhiskes.com and on Twitter.
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Mother Earth not invited to housing summit
No surprise here, but Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner & co. gave no mention to sustainability at Tuesday's summit on housing and what to do about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Living in ‘the latest Hollywood global disaster movie’
Save your $10 and skip the movie theater this summer. "The litany of weather incidents during the summer of 2010 reads like the latest Hollywood global disaster movie," Nathanial Gronewold writes at Climatewire.
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Senate bill would make energy-efficient mortgages mainstream
Heating, cooling, and electrifying a home costs money -- more than the average family pays for property taxes. Shouldn't homeowners pay attention to those costs? Shouldn't mortgage lenders? A bill backed by Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) would direct banks to start paying attention to energy.
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How Obama could make housing policy greener
On Tuesday, the Obama administration is holding a large summit on how to reshape federal housing policy and eventually offload mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the government bailed out in 2008. It'll be a Very Serious event in which the health of the economy gets top billing and the health of the planet will be lucky to get even a passing mention.
