James Carper Loses Job as Editor of Professional Builder

, former editor-in-chief of

Professional Builder magazine, reportedly lost his job after writing an editorial taking issue with the National Association of Homebuilder’s (NAHB) anti-environment stance. Healthy homes builder and author John Bower, writing on the Green-building e-mail discussion group, notes that Carper was reacting to a strong anti-environmentalist position taken by NAHB president

H. Daniel Pincus on the “takings” issue. Pincus’ piece on private property rights, about a bill in Congress (H.R. 1534), appeared in an opinion piece in the same edition. Bower also says that Carper’s reaction may have been unduly personal (the editorial included the statement: “Take a pill and settle down, Danny.”), and that other issues, predating this incident, may have contributed to the firing.