Small Victories in Environmental Battles

During the coming election there is likely to be a lot of talk about environmental initiatives, in addition to the uproar over health care reform and the slow economic recovery. The environmental debate will likely focus on a few well known debacles, in an effort to paint the entire environmental movement in a negative light. But while those

The Red Bus of My Youth

Some of my fondest memories from early childhood involve an old red hippie van that my parents used to drive. My dad kept the thing together with string and bailing wire. It couldn't make it up a hill without shaking. No amount of car polish would ever have made it shine. And when I was a kid it was a constant source of embarrassment. I didn't