Salon.com has an interesting (and somewhat catty) exchange between James Howard Kunstler and Amory Lovings: “Sparks Fly.”

I don’t know much about Kunstler, save the Salon.com interview “After the oil is gone” from last week, but I have read Lovins’ Natural Capitalism and found it to be a really inspiring and thought-provoking book.

I’m not sure I would say I totally agree with or disagree with either Kunstler’s or Lovins’ arguments in the Salon piece. They book make valid points. I wish that their little back-and-forth dealt more with the deeper issues than technical/petty things (e.g. how Lovins’ paper “Winning the Oil Endgame” was peer-reviewed, the technical benefits of Lovins’ Rocky Mountain Institute campus, etc.).

Nonetheless, I’m always interested in reading about the new urbanist movement so the article was slightly informative.