Posted by Deron Lovaas in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
I cut my teeth on environmental work volunteering with the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) back in 1991. This was in the wake of 1990, a remarkable time which included the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day, Congress amending the Clean...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
It's a tough time for print media, with unrelenting competitive pressures from proliferating alternatives for getting news and information on television and online. The magazine In Business: Creating Sustainable Enterprises and Communities became the latest casualty, closing its doors after...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
"A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground." - Anonymous An old claim has been brought to my attention again. Hybrids pollute more than Hummers because of one component: The battery. Not believable, and definitely not true! The best...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
This week marks the beginning of "The Good Life," a new column on salon.com about living an environmentally responsible life as a citizen and consumer.As the proud owner of a Honda Civic hybrid, I don't entirely agree with this first...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Living Sustainably
Passionate defender of nature Edward Abbey once said that "growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell."Skepticism about growth isn't unusual among those of us interested in conserving natural resources. I have thought a lot about this...
