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Entries from May 31st, 2008

Great, Green Job Opening

May 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment · sustainability, transportation, work

I’m hiring! Rather, the state agency I work for is hiring me a full-time assistant to work on the Governor’s Commuter Challenge (I am the program manager). Full job description and link to apply is here
Perhaps I’m biased, but this is the coolest project in the greenest state in the nation (Oregon). The theme of [...]

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Getting Consumed By Sustainability

May 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · sustainability, work

How do we sustain ourselves as we work on sustainability? There is so much work to do, how do we keep from being just another group of American workaholics, set apart only by a bigger vision and slightly different consumption patterns?
It’s 3:49 a.m. as I’m writing (I have insomnia). My upcoming day, my recent days, [...]

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Saving Money With Carpooling

May 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments · sustainability

I’m reading about the pain of high gas prices, and the auto industry shrinking, and Americans actually driving a bit less. While I care about people’s pain, I’m not experiencing it, myself. My husband Thor commutes via TriMet (the public transit here in Portland, Oregon), and I carpool with five other people to get to [...]

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Two-Minute Task For Global Warming

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments · sustainability

Happy Memorial Day weekend! It’s time for a patriotic activity. Please join me in doing a specific two-minute task today: cut and paste below the dotted line and email it to noimpactman+nadler+pelosi@gmail.com (it looks like a weird email address but, don’t worry, it will work).
What’s this for? My fellow blogger and change-agent Colin Beavan at [...]

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Paying For Our Airline Baggage

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · simplicity, sustainability, transportation

“More Ways To Make Us Pay” was the Oregonian’s headline yesterday for an article on airlines now charging for baggage due to the rising cost of fuel.
In my counseling days, we called that attitude ‘playing victim’. I would have used a different headline for the paying-for-baggage story, something like “Now We Get Paid [...]

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