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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the meantime, independent thinkers are busy hatching schemes to beat the system. "A great learning process is going on," says Madison Draftsman Dan Greco, who describes himself as a "lay expert" in conservation. On Block Island, R.I., where the last sizable stands of trees were cut and sent up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

In Alaska, where thinking hard to stay warm can be a requirement for survival, 258 residents?one out of every 2,000 souls, a rate higher than anywhere else in the U.S.?submitted ideas to a Department of Energy small grants program. Elizabeth Hart of Galena won $13,800...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

It is easy to dismiss such tiny projects as tinkering?as it is easy to dismiss the wood-stove phenomenon. Crab wastes and the body heat of chickens are not going to save postindustrial America (though Ecologist Barry Com- moner believes that methane, generated from a wide variety of wastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

There are drawbacks to this unbudgeable stubbornness, of course. Despite the inventiveness that it accompanies, it is at its roots a resistance to change. And the changes that the society has shown itself willing to make so far are small ones. They do not inconvenience in serious ways. Yes to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

This season of makeshift and grumbling, however, may turn out to have been the period in which the U.S., without really noticing that its attitudes have shifted, passed a balance point toward the acceptance of solar energy. A principle of architecture's postmodern school is that architecture is not an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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