Last week I named the very best diet for weight loss as being one of low car use. That’s because our bodies were designed to get us from place to place with this cool gait called walking. My husband and I share just one car, and use public transit, our feet and our bikes for many of our trips. It’s more fun, too.
What else has been rising in the
Tags: bicycling·Bowling Alone·carbon footprint·environment·fun·global warming·movies·Robert Putnam·television·walking·weight loss
Last night five friends of mine, new and old, got together at Colleen and Thad’s house in NE Portland. We had wine, a delicious potluck dinner and animated-to-hilarious planning of our Carbon Action Reduction Group.
Honestly, it would have been fun and funny even without the wine. The four sled dogs milling around our legs added a lot to the happy hubbub. Bottom line: We’re going to do it! We’re
Tags: carbon footprint·climate change·culture·dinner·economics·energy conservation·environment·friendship·fun·global warming·life·sled dogs·wine
If you’re stressing over your taxes being due today, I empathize. I have SO been there (though not any more. Here are my tips on breaking free of credit card and consumer debt.) Now I am a tax non-begrudger. I willingly pay taxes because I want to live in the civilized kind of society they make possible.
I see roads and highways as
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I’m intrigued by (Oregon) Governor Kulongoski’s speech last Friday on transportation and global warming. It’s not many politicians who are brave enough to consider peak-hour tolls, which are also known as congestion pricing.
London and Stockholm have found that these reduce rush-hour traffic by about 20%, which is huge in the transportation context. The tolls were highly unpopular at first, but became more accepted as people found themselves spending
Tags: carbon footprint·congestion pricing·gas tax·global warming·Governor Kulongoski·highways·pricing signals·roads
You have probably read by now that our country has been getting dramatically more obese for twenty years now. Most people I know seem to want to lose weight and be more lean and fit. Diets, though, are famous for non-lasting results and nasty backlash effects.
My philosophy of the diamond-cut life naturally has a different take on weight loss and dieting than the mainstream culture does. (I’m
Tags: bicycling·cars·CRAG·culture·diet·fitness·global warming·green living·obesity·Safe Routes to Schools·weight loss
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