It’s the last day of the month, a good day to look at household finances and where money was well spent and less well spent. You know me; I embrace thrift.
I continued my theme of drinking less alcohol, including in social settings where ‘everyone’ is drinking, and it’s been wonderful. It saves money but just [...]
Entries from April 30th, 2009
The Best $400 We Spent This Month
April 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments · community, money, transportation
Tags: alcohol·bicycling·Fred Meyer·Oregon·relationships·Somalia·technology·thrift
The 99th Day Of A Greenish President
April 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · energy, politics, sustainability
Thankfully, President Obama is getting it. He may not exactly embrace a diamond-cut life (for instance, he keeps his thermostat up and drinks bottled water), yet that’s nothing in light of the bigger-picture changes he has been initiating at a lickety-split pace. The below, rounded up from Huffington Post, are in addition to Michelle Obama’s [...]
Tags: economics·environment·green-collar jobs·Obama·Van Jones
The Sexiness Of Spring
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments · food & drink, home & garden, nature, simplicity, sustainability
Millions are unsuccessfully looking for jobs, our climate is warming faster than the scientists’ worst-case scenarios and now we also have a swine flu epidemic. Ai-yai-yai. All of those are important, but today I’m drilling down deeper into a universal constant in all our lives: the food that keeps us alive.
Living in the city as [...]
Resources For Good Living: Suggest A Link!
April 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · sustainability
Hanmi and I are assembling Resources For Good Living, our new page that will go live in June. It’s a directory of links to sites, services, businesses, advice, etc. that support a diamond-cut life (a life high in joy, low in consumption). We’d love your suggestions on links to include! Click here to contribute.
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Being A Good Lover
April 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · food & drink, health & well being
Happy Earth Day! (This is going to make sense; just give it a minute.) The other day I was working outdoors with my friend Taylor, whose girlfriend Jasmine is a songwriter. “Jasmine told me I inspired her to write some new lyrics,” he told me.
I thought for a minute as I pulled weeds. “I think [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·fun·green living
