I think many perceive green wonky people to be grim, austere Puritan types. But my experience is quite different from that. Here’s what my dining room sounded like (loosely translated) last night when my Green Girls social circle came over for dinner. I was proposing a CRAG to them as I had planned.
Micki: “So what’s this CRAG thing? A guy I can date?”
Me: “No, honey, it’s a Carbon
Tags: addicted·carbon footprint·climate change·dinner·green living·twelve step groups
On March 2 I wrote about my household’s deliberations over which hybrid should be the replacement for our single car, a battered 15 year old Nissan. People have been asking me, “So what have you decided?” It’s almost like they’re wondering if a new baby will be a boy or a girl.
The answer: we don’t want this new baby (new car) until late summer. At the earliest, if then
Tags: babies·economics·embodied energy·environment·hybrids·life·new car·sex
I am happy to learn this morning that Pierce County in Washington is protecting its rich farmland in the Puyallup Valley from developers.
Why? I’ll get really basic. The land has already been developed. It was logged many years ago and converted into farmland. Farmland is its highest, most brilliant and diamond-cut use. The Pacific Northwest soils are so fertile they support more biomass than any other soil
Tags: developers·development·economics·environment·farmland·happy·land use·Pacific Northwest·sprawl
My idea of today’s best read is not anything by me, but rather, John Tierney’s excellent article on carbon footprint and behavior change in the New York Times.
I entered his contest to invent the best name for a little device that will give people a steady feedback loop on their home’s energy consumption. Research shows that these visual cues nudge people into consuming more carefully and using less
Tags: carbon footprint·climate change·environment·global warming·happiness·John Tierney·life·Nudge
This past Saturday night we went to the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s (BTA’s) annual awards dinner and auction, attended by about 800 people. It’s called Alice B. Toeclips and it was invented about a decade ago by my awesome friend and mentor Karen Frost, the founding director of the BTA.
I had good conversations with great people at Toeclips, and just one reservation I’ll get to in a minute
Tags: Alice B. Toeclips·auctions·bicycles·consumption·culture·cycling·development·economics·fundraising·grassroots·Metro·nonprofits
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