Coming up on my one-year anniversary in my carpool, I recently wrote a post about how it is saving me $6,800/year according to this cost calculator. (I have a 100 mile round trip, and five carpool partners). I’m also saving a lot of carbon emissions, and arriving at work and back at home sweeter and [...]
Entries from January 23rd, 2009
Top Ten Tips For Carpooling, Part I
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · money, simplicity, sustainability, work
Tags: carpool·carpooling·cars·commuting·thrift
Inaugural Elation: There’s A ‘We’ Here
January 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · sustainability
My coworkers and I crammed into our boss David’s office yesterday morning on his invitation (he’s the one with a television) to watch Obama’s inauguration. Rick Warren’s prayer, Aretha Franklin’s rendition of “America”, the taking of oaths and our new President’s speech all held us rapt and riveted. Early on, David, who has three grown [...]
Tags: bipartisan politics·economics·global warming·inauguration·interdependence·manuebo·Obama·renewable energy
Nights Of Passion, No Regrets In The Morning
January 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · entertainment, lifestyle
My favorite tagline ever belonged to the Portland Opera: nights of passion, no regrets in the morning. I actually wrote today’s post (written in the past, but in the present tense) during a concert of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, but the principle of the passion-tagline rings true across the board: the arts make our lives [...]
Tags: brass·culture·happiness·music·orchestra·Oregon·portland symphony orchestra·Schitzer Auditorium·trumpet·violins
Carpooling Is Saving Me $6,800/year
January 16th, 2009 · No Comments · lifestyle, money, sustainability, transportation, work
Next month I’ll celebrate my one year anniversary at my job — and my carpool will have saved me $6,800. To figure that out, I used the calculator at Carpool Match Northwest, which is also where I found my congenial carpool (six of us now) in the first place. My situation is actually both better [...]
Tags: carpool·Carpool Match Northwest·carpooling·climate change·commute·green living·happiness·Oregon·telework·thrift
