My carpool-pals don’t just help me save gas money and carbon emissions, they also pass good information on to me. Thanks to my baseball-loving ‘pool, I’ve learned about Andrew Brown, the relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics who uses his bicycle and BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to get to the ballpark for [...]
Entries from June 19th, 2008
Hood To Coast
June 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · entertainment, health & well being
Running is just about the most natural sport possible, the sport our pre-Industrial ancestors did, the one that doesn’t burn any fossil fuels. You’d think that fun in the time of global warming would make liberal use of running — and it would, but you’d need to rethink Hood To Coast. Hood To Coast is [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·climate change·environment·exercise·global warming·green living·happiness·Hood to Coast·jet-skiing·Mount Hood·Oregon·running·Seaside·Tmberline Lodge
Fun In The Time Of Global Warming
June 15th, 2008 · No Comments · community, entertainment, health & well being, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability
With Summer Solstice and the first day of summer coming up on Saturday June 21, my theme this week will be earth-friendly recreation, or Fun In The Time Of Global Warming. Professional work tends to keep us up in our heads, thinking so hard we practically get divorced from our bodies. I really hate that [...]
Tags: 10k·beer·carbon footprint·carpooling·culture·energy conservation·environment·exercise·global warming·green living·half-marathon·happiness·Hefeweisen·Helvetia·Hollywood·Hood to Coast·hybrids·life·movies·outdoors·running·thrift
Love, Sex and Sustainability
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · simplicity, sustainability
Living sustainably takes an ongoing focus. It takes mindfulness. My experience is that all kinds of things, but especially addictions, destroy that mindfulness. Years ago I was smitten with a man, a man beautiful inside and out, who was — you guessed it — unavailable. I obsessed about him for weeks, neglecting other things in [...]
Take The Green Out Of Golf, Please
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments · lifestyle
A short post having just returned from the Southwest. I’ve learned it takes between 2200 to 3500 gallons of water to support each single game of golf played in a desert environment. This, in an American West of shrinking aquifers and a world of growing food shortages and record levels of starvation. I’m seeing a [...]
Tags: climate change·culture·exercise·golf·golf courses·outdoors·water·water conservation·West
