Jeff Merkley, of my home state of Oregon, is now one of the top hopes in the nation for the Democrats to take leadership of the U.S. Senate. Yesterday’s election results mean that he’ll be running against Republican incumbent Senator Gordon Smith in the November election. I want him to win! My household will be [...]
Entries from May 21st, 2008
Jeff Merkley For U.S. Senate
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · politics, sustainability
Tags: bipartisan politics·Democrats·global warming·Jeff Merkley·Oregon·Republicans·U.S. Senate
Sex And The City, Portland style
May 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments · entertainment, lifestyle
Here is my Portland, Oregon response to Sex And The City: The Movie. It is Green Girls Take On CRAG. Read it to see what I mean. My Green Girls social circle has more fun and is more joyful, I suggest, than the characters in the hit HBO series. Why do I think that? We [...]
Tags: consumption·Green Girls·happiness·Sex And The City: The Movie
High Energy Prices: Good
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments · simplicity, sustainability
I’m sipping my coffee at 6 a.m. at Stumptown in Southeast Portland (joy). The Oregonian’s front page shows an ocean of the 72,000 faces that turned out to see Barack Obama yesterday (yes, I voted for him, too) and the lower right corner story is: “Who loves high energy prices? The environment.” The gist is [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide·carbon footprint·carpooling·consumption·economics·environment·global warming·life·philanthropy·social justice
Off The Grid In The Ancient Forest
May 18th, 2008 · No Comments · nature, sustainability
I’m here at Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center for the weekend, off the electricity grid, yet wi-fied onto the Internet grid. A huge snowdrift (it was a hard winter) blocks half my view out the window of the lodge. But it and pretty much all the snow in Oregon is melting fast with the sudden [...]
Tags: Brendon Connelly·carbon footprint·forest·nature education·Opal Creek·renewable energy·solar panels
Heat Wave: Slow Down
May 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments · simplicity, sustainability
Here in Portland, Oregon we’re expecting 95 degrees today, which for our mild climate is a major heat wave. How to cope with it? I suggest we do what people did for the 99.9% of human history prior to the invention of air conditioners. They slowed their pace down so they wouldn’t overheat themselves. And [...]
Tags: 97215·AC·air conditioners·coal plants·energy conservation·global warming·green living·hydropower·off the grid·Opal Creek Ancient Forest·Portland·solar panels
