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Position: Thinking Green
As we stand transfixed by the enormously powerful hurricanes churning across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, one can’t help but think about our place in the climate-change continuum. Here in the...
DATE: Sept. 15, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
A few weeks ago, we sent forth our champion with bated breath and hopeful expectations to plead our case before Tri-State, to please allow us to generate more electricity locally here at home in La...
DATE: Aug. 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Waiving rules to prevent methane pollution. Stripping wetlands of protection under the Clean Water Act. Throwing out restrictions against strip-mining mountaintops and dumping the spoils into...
DATE: July 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
“It’s all about the economics,” the expert said. “Technologies have improved to make other forms of energy less expensive than coal.” One might figure sure, that’s some tree-hugging...
DATE: June 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
We’re in uncharted waters. A presidential administration just launched an overarching attack on more than 11 million acres of previously protected landscapes. The Trump administration’s new...
DATE: May 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
This being the last column I have the privilege to write for The Durango Herald, there’s a certain pressure I feel to pen a magnum opus of sorts. Let me pour some cold water on that thought. No...
DATE: April 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
News flash: The Dalai Lama, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, just weighed in on the proposed expansion of heli-ski terrain around Silverton. Really? Truth be told, no. But have you ever noticed how the...
DATE: March 15, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Do you know the name George Lakoff? If you don’t, you should. George Lakoff is a professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and an author of Don’t...
DATE: Feb. 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
On Friday, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as our nation’s 45th president. Here’s an odd thought: What if President Trump is exactly what America needs? How, you may ask, can a man who possesses...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Of the many emails we’ve received at San Juan Citizens Alliance, this may be the oddest. “I see that you are not on board with our President elect. Please remove us from your mailing list. Proud...
DATE: Dec. 14, 2016 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Here’s a question for you. Can I call President-elect Donald Trump out as a dangerously uninformed and unprincipled bigot without alienating his supporters? Better question. Why am I worried about...
DATE: Nov. 16, 2016 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
In the past week, I have had the opportunity to speak with some truly inspiring people, and get this: a few were politicians. I know, sounds improbable, right? This election season, the words...
DATE: Oct. 19, 2016 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
