MOTHER’s Newsworthies: Jim Weaver, Amory and Hunter Lovins and Junior Johnson

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Congressman Jim Weaver works to create jobs and another form of energy conservation use by using slash wood-burning waste.
Congressman Jim Weaver works to create jobs and another form of energy conservation use by using slash wood-burning waste.
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Amory and Hunter Lovins made a documentary film called Lovins on the Soft Path (Bullfrog Films, 1982), which attempts to present the basic energy principles that, if followed, could bring about an economically viable future.
Amory and Hunter Lovins made a documentary film called Lovins on the Soft Path (Bullfrog Films, 1982), which attempts to present the basic energy principles that, if followed, could bring about an economically viable future.
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Junior Johnson, race car driver/builder, created a retreat place for him and his wife by turning a cattle barn into a peaceful Blue Ridge Mountain homestead.
Junior Johnson, race car driver/builder, created a retreat place for him and his wife by turning a cattle barn into a peaceful Blue Ridge Mountain homestead.

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Congressman Jim Weaver Aims to Turn Waste Into Energy

Every spring and fall, smokestacks smear the blue skies
over Oregon’s forests with haze as thousands of tons of
logging slash are burned to clear the ground for

  • Published on May 1, 1982
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