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December 1, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- bushrollbacks, energyefficiency, midnightregulations
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...
October 24, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
- Tags:
- dirtyfuels, liquidcoal, liquifiedcoal, oiladdiction
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...
August 14, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Reviving the World's Oceans
- Tags:
- drilling, gasprices, lairdhamilton, oil, surfing
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...