The following piece ran in the New York Times on Sunday, Feb. 10th and features CCAN director Mike Tidwell. The reporter was most interested in the corn stove co-op he founded. See CCAN’s website for more on the Save Our Sky Home-Heating Cooperative

Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You

By ALEX WILLIAMS
The New York Times
Published: February 10, 2008

AS a suburban environmentalist, Mike Tidwell, 45, of Takoma Park, Md., always felt like a walking contradiction.

Though he had quit his job as a journalist to work for environmental nonprofit organizations, Mr. Tidwell viewed suburbs (his own hometown is just outside of Washington) as places built “to defy nature,” he said, giving everyone “their own little kingdom of grass and space”

But the problem with suburbs, many environmentalists say, is not an issue of light bulbs. In the end, the very things that make suburban life attractive