I’m often drawn to the things that people don’t want to talk about. You know, the elephant in the living room syndrome. Today, that uncomfortable topic is the rebuilding of New Orleans.
Along with other excellent people and organizations, Mercy Corps has been helping do the above. Last week I was at Jimmy Mak’s when Neal Keny-Guyer, the CEO of Mercy Corps, was speaking. So
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On the first day of my new job in Salem, Oregon yesterday, I left my house in Portland before 6 a.m. and got home about 6:4o p.m. I spent three hours and forty minutes total on the commute, including walking to and from the Capitol Mall to my building.
Ye gads. To think that millions of people around the world do this for decades of their lives in
Tags: Capitol Mall·carbon footprint·carpool·carpooling·environment·global warming·Portland·reverse commute·rideshare·Salem·saving money
My blog The Diamond-Cut Life is about chiseling our consumption down to the core of happiness. What do we really need to consume and do in order to have both happiness and integrity in the face of global warming?
In other words, how can each of us give legs to sustainability?
I think that joy for most human beings comes from honest work, friendship, connection to nature, sharing resources and even
Tags: carbon footprint·climate change·culture·friendship·green living·happiness·locavore·nature·New American Dream·sharing resources·sociology·Wake Forest University
I got up at 5 this morning and immediately put on my fleece pants, top and socks. (It’s a bummer that fleece is so great when it’s derived from petroleum). I was still cold so I turned the heat on — not petroleum.
Thor and I have almost pure biodiesel (B99) in our oil furnace. We bought it from Star Oil, who bought it from SeQuential Biofuel. So we’re heating
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My definition of happiness — the diamond-cut life — involves integrity as well as joy. And integrity was what I heard from evangelical Dr. Paul Metzger as he confronted the shortcomings of conservative Christianity in his book Consuming Jesus at his reading and discussion at Powells Books here in Portland the night before last.
The major shortcoming of modern evangelism and particularly megachurches is “giving people what they want
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