Posted by Jon Coifman
Presidential candidates have been out and about this week talking about their respective plans to create thousands of new “green collar” jobs. It’s the right idea, but the wrong way to talk about it. Building the clean, sustainable, energy efficiency...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
Don't be alarmed on your way to work if the Hummer in the next lane is being driven by a chicken. Two animal rights groups have launched high-visibility campaigns arguing that eating meat causes more global warming pollution than your...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Living Sustainably
I did an hour-long segment on plastic grocery bags today on the Diane Rehm Show, a nationally syndicated NPR program produced by WAMU in Washington, D.C. The other guests were Sam Shropshire, Alderman from the Seventh Ward in Annapolis, Maryland...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Living Sustainably
I am sitting at Chicago O’Hare International Airport for the second time in two weeks. Our own David Goldstein’s book is in the airport shops, displayed right next to the latest offering from Donald Trump. No word from the...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Living Sustainably
Big piece in the Washington Post yesterday about how kids never get outdoors anymore. The basic story is always out there, but is enjoying a flourishing resurgence thanks to some new statistics. It has been all over the place the...
