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Essay Bee
GREEN Reactor column
[Published in The Blue Paper newspaper on July 19, 2013.]
Essay Bee
Is it something like a Spelling Bee, but for composition? Over the 4+ years since I was appointed, I invariably draw the quizzical response “Essay Bee???” when I mention a meeting of the SAB – better known as Key West’s Sustainability Advisory Board. Then, just the word ”Sustainability” will often induce eye glaze-over. Or sudden realization of being late for an appointment. Or a jump to the next article in the newspaper….
Still here? Okay, let’s see if I can pull off a discussion of Key West’s SAB that will engage you, even if you’re not especially enamored of wonkish infrastructure talk. (more…)
GREEN Backlash Backlash
GREEN Reactor column
[Published in The Blue Paper newspaper on July 5, 2013.]
GREEN Backlash Backlash
The seeds of our last age of enlightenment were planted in the 1960s and blossomed in the 1970s with theestablishment of the Environmental Protective Agency (under Richard Nixon!) and celebrated with the brand new Earth Day celebration. During that age grew the seemingly indisputable idea that “saving the planet” was a natural thing. Everyone paying attention recognized that man’s explosive population growth and unconstrained expansion would doom us — and so proceeded to sow the seeds of salvation. But even while doing so, they continued to love those big-ole cars and – and the cheap gasoline powering them.
After having lived through the rapid progress of the Space Race, they were sure that nuclear power would soon be refined into a cheap practical energy source that would obliterate the smog of the coal and petroleum-based power plants. After the scare of the Oil Embargo of ‘73/’74 — when people wouldn’t stand for higher gas prices (almost a dollar, for god’s sake) — they quickly adopted mileage standards to eventually reduce the cost of driving. And with it, the demand for oil. (more…)