Government Failure, Grassroots Success

By Daphne Bishop This summer brought us the Senate’s egregious failure to pass a comprehensive climate change bill. But it also witnessed a burgeoning collaborative effort to ride the “wave of the future,” and get down to the nitty gritty of building an economy that is not tied to fossil fuels or fossilized ways of [...]

Posted on August 9th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Carbon footprint, Economy, Environment, Jobs | 3 Comments »

Role Models on Wheels

By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson There were no bikes to be bought, new or used, where we lived during World War II. I didn’t get a two-wheeler until I was 11, two years after the war was over. For me, riding a bike was never something I could do without thinking. I worried about every car [...]

Posted on July 12th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Carbon footprint, Climate Change, Environment | 2 Comments »