Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Bikes
A friend once described Seattle to me as very “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”… things are constantly moving around in that city, whether on land or by water, and it’s a lot to take in, but thrilling all at the same time. Portland is much the same way, although to a lesser extent. One thing that [...]
100
I can’t honestly say that I’ve had enough time to process what I got out of Living Future 10, because I’ve spent the last week playing catch up and doing other important things. So I’m just going to pause to point out that this is my 100th post on the Green Design Collective since I [...]
PDX’s Pedal Nation Bike Show
I went to the Pedal Nation Bicycle Show in the Portland Convention Center over the weekend. I don’t think it requires that many words to tell you how awesome it was; I would rather show you.
LILAWAC rides again!
Back in February, I wrote a post here about my experiences living in Los Angeles without a car, and how I thought those stories were worth sharing, which resulted in my starting a blog by the same name (Living in Los Angeles Without A Car, or LILAWAC for short). Shortly thereafter, my friend Erin – [...]
Green designers do graphics, too
Behold, the new Seattle Department of Transportation Bike Map. Made by my friend Erin, who is awesome. Erin did her first iteration of this bike map as part of her graduate thesis at the University of Washington. Go see more of Erin’s awesomeness at her Web site and blog. And then ring your bike bell [...]
Living in Los Angeles Without a Car
It seems like a very far away experience for me, now that I’ve been living in Portland for nearly 9 months (aka the sky has been Pantone Warm Grey since October), but before my current situation I was living in Los Angeles for grad school. And, as you might have picked up from the title [...]
Copenhagen Commences
Ah, Copenhagen. You’ve been getting all sorts of action this year, haven’t you? First you crush our hopes of having the Olympics in Chicago and now you gather our world leaders together via their 1,200 limos and 140 private planes … to a conference on the deleterious effects of pollution on our global climate. But [...]
Don’t get mad, get wordy
This Thanksgiving holiday, I can’t stress enough how lucky we all are for our health. When I think of the hot mess that is our healthcare system, I am amazed and grateful that I have remained mostly healthy and have not had to go through what some people do to get treated. When I think [...]
So long Cash for Clunkers, we hardly knew ye
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced this week that after a wildly successful and very brief run, the Car Allowance Rebate System, aka CARS or Cash for Clunkers, will end this Monday, August 24. I took a screen shot of the Web site just in case it isn’t there when you click the link. Soooo… [...]
How do you recycle a car?
Tucked away in Wednesday’s edition of All Things Considered on NPR was a short bit where they discussed listener letters, and they answered one letter that was sent in after a report on the Federal Government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program. Specifically the listener wanted to know “what happens to the ‘clunker’ after it is turned [...]
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