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
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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
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Tags: developers·development·economics·environment·farmland·happy·land use·Pacific Northwest·sprawl
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
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Tags: Alice B. Toeclips·auctions·bicycles·consumption·culture·cycling·development·economics·fundraising·grassroots·Metro·nonprofits