Today’s post is a brief one as I sit here at Stumptown Coffee in southeast Portland, Oregon. I’m sipping from a real mug instead of a disposable cup. Have you ever noticed how much more sensual the porcelain feels against your lips than a flimsy paper cup? How pleasing its warm weight is in the palm of your chilly hand on a winter morning?
It turns me on, to be honest.
Which
Tags: carbon footprint·climate change·coffee·culture·environment·ethics·global warming·green lifestyle·life·No Impact Man·sensuality
As I’m following the primaries, two things keep coming to mind: why isn’t global warming central to the problems the candidates are addressing? And why aren’t we and the media expecting more courage and leadership from them on such an obvious problem?
Newspapers nattering about likability reminds me of the guys rearranging the deck chairs as the Titanic was sinking. The largest scientific consensus that the world has ever seen
Tags: candidates·carbon footprint·climate change·culture·economics·global warming·life·primaries·Senator Gordon Smith
Doug Glanville has an important editorial in the New York Times today. He’s saying that our culture’s deepest fears drive athletes’ use of steroids, i.e. fear of aging, failure, vulnerability, being replaced, etc.
‘Play without steroids despite your fear’ is his summary advice to players, which is what he reports he did himself as a pro baseball player.
He’s touching into much more than professional sports. Everyone, athletic or not, has to
Tags: aging·athletes·carbon footprint·climate change·culture·Doug Glanville·environment·fear·global warming·steroids
In my last post I talked about overspending with credit cards and overspending the earth’s resources needing a similar solution: live happily within our means. It feels so much better this way, believe me.
Here are my Top Five recommendations for how to break free of credit cards, based on how I did it. (Note: If your debt comes from medical expenses or not earning living wages
Tags: consumer debt·credit cards·culture·environment·green lifestyle·personal finances
Confession: I am a former credit-card addict. Many years ago I racked up huge debts, played all the games of transferring my balances, thought I was very smart, la la la.
Today I have zero debt, and am much happier. (Smarter, too.) I think many others could be happier in this area, as well. I suggest we all break free of credit cards and stop using them.
How do credit cards relate
Tags: carbon footprint·culture·environment·finances·happiness·life·money management
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