Earlier this week Ozzie Zehner, author of Green Illusions, voiced his opinion about the new electric Tesla SUV in the Christian Science Monitor. His belief:  Electric cars don’t make future environmental problems simply disappear. Lloyd Alter from Treehugger agrees with Zehner in his new article and survey “Should Environmentalists Cheer for Electric Cars?”   Alter talks about Zehner’s new book in his op-ed piece that was published on Feb. 13. Click here to read the story, take the survey and see the results! Continue reading An environmentalist and the future of the electric car

Are hybrid and electric cars really better for the environment? Ozzie Zehner used to think so; he used to be enthusiastic about electric cars. But he says he was wrong. In his new book, Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism, he argues that we don’t have an energy crisis, we have a consumption crisis. He persuasively argues for a change of perspective. Zehner recently published an op-ed piece in The Christian Science Monitor about his conclusions using the recent release of the Tesla SUV as a springboard to talk about how electric cars … Continue reading Electric car solution or problem

Kathleen Flenniken, author of Famous (2006) is now the Washington state poet laureate for 2012-2014. In a news release from Humanities Washington and the Washington State Arts Commission Flenniken said, “This is a dream job — speaking in support of the arts and humanities, and of poetry in particular, getting a chance to organize poetry events around the state, visit schools, reach kids and teachers and remote communities.” Click here to read the full story from The Seattle Times. Famous is a winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, and was widely praised. Barbara McMichael from the Olympian (Olympia, … Continue reading UNP author named state’s poet laureate