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 [...]
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 [...]
iGreen at GreenBuild: How the Web Empowers Designers to Build Sustainably
I’m pleased to announce – albeit after the fact – that I participated on a “virtual” panel discussion at the GreenBuild conference today. Which is to say, while GreenBuild is happening in Phoenix, Arizona, I sat on the panel, via my Web cam, in Portland, Oregon, and chatted with some illustrious Internet friends who were [...]
…and I dropped the blogging ball! More about the Solar Decathlon…
Sorry for going on hiatus after my last post from DC about the Solar Decathlon. The truth of the matter is that the weather was 100% miserable the entire time I was there, and I had not the time nor the space to blog: my hands were numb and it was raining, thus making it [...]
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… if [...]
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 [...]
Give it up for Streetcars!
I am a native of the Midwest, specifically the Greater Cincinnati area, so I try to pay attention to what’s going on in my hometown. Today I was pleased to stumble upon this post on the CincyStreetcar Blog entitled, What do America’s Top Ten Cities have in common? Why, streetcars of course! As per [...]
My 14-year-old car got 40 mpg today.
Not that I’m boasting but, wow….that’s kind of amazing right? I guess that’s the flatness of California’s central valley combined with my car’s wind-friendlier profile and small engine. I’ll take it, in any case!
That said, I’ve arrived safely at the first stop on my Unemployment Tour, Palo Alto. Situated conveniently in the southern part of [...]
Ryan Reynolds is coming on tour with me
Ok, not really, but since I put all of my books either in storage or sent them home, I got this issue of Entertainment Weekly to have something to read and was delightfully surprised to find out that Ryan Reynolds’ favorite Web site is Treehugger.com. Treehugger is awesome and is my one-stop source for all [...]
Meet Dorothy.
Dorothy is my new set of wheels. Well, she is new to me, but actually she is quite old. She’s a 1995 Ford Escort Wagon with only 27,000 miles that I received from a private owner for a VERY reasonable price. She is in excellent condition for a car her age, and if I play [...]
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