by Alison Wiley Sustainability needs lots of entrepreneurs. It needs outside-the-box thinkers and doers to help us find new ways of producing, consuming and being of service to each other. I’ll bet that you, yourself, have a talent or idea you’ve fantasized about making a living at. I spent 1992 to 2004 as a small [...]
Entries from August 12th, 2008
Top Ten Tips For Entrepeneurs, Part I
August 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · lifestyle, sustainability, work
Tags: art·business·entrepeneur·relationships·self-employment
Oregon’s New Solar Highway
August 8th, 2008 · 8 Comments · energy, transportation
Oregon’s new ‘solar highway’ project officially kicked off yesterday at the I-5/I205 interchange — yet another intersection between energy and transportation as the fields work toward sustainability (see Electric Vehicles). Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is partnering with Portland General Electric to install solar panels that will produce 104 kilowatts of energy — equivalent to [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·economics·green living·PV·renewable energy·solar energy·solar panels·Steve Roe
The Dalai Lama And Nicholas Kristof
August 7th, 2008 · No Comments · politics
I suggest that the best thing you could read today would be Nicholas Kristof’s piece in the New York Times on the Dalai Lama and China. All that I will do is explain why I’m suggesting that. To go five miles up into the big picture, we human beings as a species are in our [...]
Tags: Dalai Lama·Nicholas Kristof·religion·spirituality·technology
Green Wedding: Community As Capital
August 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · community, health & well being, lifestyle
I’ve read that the average wedding in the U.S. costs $20,000. (I wonder how many fights ensue over getting it all paid off?) Portland’s green wedding of the year, that of our friends Noelle Studer and Eli Spevak, was long on community, short on materialism. The joy and vitality were palpable. Here Eli and Noelle [...]
Tags: bike caravan·Eli Spevak·environment·exercise·green living·happiness·Mount Tabor·Noelle Studer·outdoors·Peninsula Park·relationships·wedding
Soaring Above PZEV To Zero Emissions
August 4th, 2008 · No Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, simplicity, transportation
I had an exhilarating swoop into the heart of the diamond-cut life Saturday night when I bicycled all the way home from my mother-in-law’s house. (For newcomers to this blog– welcome! — the diamond-cut life is happiness chiseled down to its essence, with excess consumption stripped away). I felt free and strong as an eagle bicycling from [...]
Tags: bicycling·carbon emissions·carbon reduction·climate change·energy conservation·global warming·green architects·green living·Honda hybrid·Nathan Good·net zero home·pzev·Tom Kelly
