Agenda 21: The United Nations Threat To Control Our Lightbulbs, Our Lifestyles and Our Lives
9:36 am in Business & Politics, compact fluorescent lights, heritage buildings, michele bachmann, politics, sustainable development, urban planning by TreeHugger
I disagreed with TreeHugger Brian the other day, about what is driving the Tea Party madness in Washington. He said money; I said ideology. Here's why.
In my spare time, I am active in the Heritage Preservation movement; I think old buildings and communities are more than relics from the past, they are templates for the future. For the last year I have been trying to determine the cause of a remarkable rise in the belief that property rights are sacrosanct, even in...Read the full story on TreeHugger




Graham and David's Chickens in Dorset, Ontario. Image credit Lloyd Alter
Campbellford is a lovely little town of 3500 people in bucolic Northumberland County, Ontario; I know quite a few people who have fled the city and are teleworking from there. But certain urban ideas are not welcome there, such as raising your own chickens. 
Kaid Benfield of the NRDC was in Wilmington for the
Just over two years ago I asked TreeHugger prez Ken and editor Meg if I could take on a time-consuming volunteer gig as President of the 





