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 [...]
Inside an Airstream Trailer
Currently writing to you from inside an Airstream trailer! Lots of fun stuff here today….if the Airstream’s a rockin’ don’t come knockin’…
The “green” road trip; can we make this happen?
Last week I posted about the GreenDesignCollective’s Portfolio Project, where I am inviting fellow unemployed architects and designers to host their online portfolios on the GDC for free for a period of up to a year. These are the first steps towards creating a true “green design collective”, partially inspired by groups like the Hyperform [...]
Emily’s Ten Commandments of a Greener Office
1. Thou shalt avoid “vampire power” by unplugging appliances when not in use.
2. Thou shalt use coffee mugs instead of paper cups – and dishtowels instead of paper towels – as much as possible.
3. Thou shalt not purchase disposable plastic water bottles unless thou is dangerously parched.
4. Thou shall turn off thou’s computers at the [...]
The hard part is over…
…and now the fun can begin! I’m referring to the final throes of my thesis, which is the main reason that I created this site in the first place. I gave my final presentation on March 11, and the document itself is just about done as well. So now I can get back to blogging…
I [...]
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