Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
"Do you want a plastic bag?" "Um, okay..." "That'll cost you a nickel." "Oh, well, never mind. Thanks anyway." That's the exchange I had with a Subway cashier today. As I was paying for my food, she piled my sandwich,...
Posted by Rob Perks in Living Sustainably
I live about 10 miles as the crow flies from Washington, D.C. in Rockville, Maryland. About 10 years ago my wife and I bought our first home in the neighborhood of Twinbrook, a pleasant place of modestly-priced Cape Cods built in the...
Posted by Rob Perks in Living Sustainably
From the administration that views conservation not as a necessity but a virtue, this little nugget buried in yesterday's WashPost story about Bush's raft of 'midnight regulations' rolling back environmental protections stood out: "On Nov. 19, the OMB ordered the Energy Department to...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
The coal industry has a dream -- that one day our cars and trucks will run on liquefied coal. They tout this as a way to free America from its addiction to oil -- 60% of which we export from foreign...
Posted by Rob Perks in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans
I was lucky enough to grow up not too far from the beach, so I've spent a good part of my life – but not nearly enough – surfing. I rode my first wave as a teenager off the Outer...
