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Yet Another Economics and Poop Post

By Andy Ewing | Published: September 18, 2008
It turns out that there are tons of incentive problems with cleaning up after your pet, meaning that as a dog-owning economist with a blog I’m obligated to write about all of them.  I talked about the idea of placing a special bin on city streets for dog-waste in yesterday’s post with an eye toward [...]
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Energy Independence

By Andy Ewing | Published: September 17, 2008
Claire sent me a link to this older article earlier today about San Francisco’s attempt at converting dog poop into energy.  From the article: Under the pilot plan, announced this week, Sunset Scavenger will place biodegradable bags and what are tastefully called dog-waste carts in a popular San Francisco dog park. The dog poo will [...]
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Should I do this?

By Andy Ewing | Published: October 6, 2007
I just read this article on a service that for about $65, you can take a swab of your dog’s cheek, send it off to a lab, and in a few weeks find out exactly what breeds make up your pup.  While I have a pretty good idea of the main breeds that make up [...]
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