My post Rethinking Our Entitlement To Travel drew a thoughtful, in-depth comment from Tyler Karaszewski which draws my respect but not my agreement. In Tyler’s vision, 50 years from now we’ll still be driving as much as we please, but in cars emitting little or no carbon. The transformation to a low-carbon world will have [...]
Entries from November 17th, 2009
Cars, Climate And Creature Comforts
November 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · community, global warming and climate change, transportation
Tags: creature comforts·electric cars·future·natural world·standard of living·stewardship·Tyler Karaszewski
The Best Entertainment I’ve Ever Had
November 15th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, simplicity
Pretend we were all alive together 300 years ago, or 300,000 years ago. What would we do for fun, in the absence of internet, movies, television, and everything else made possible by cheap fossil fuels? I think we’d do what my friends did with me last night to celebrate my birthday: entertain each other without [...]
Tags: birthdays·Colleen Kaleda·dancing·fun·haiku·Jean Baumann·labor of love·party·risotto·singing·vegetarian
Health Care: The Part Under Our Control
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · health & well being, lifestyle
Rather than write about health care reform in the U.S. (which I think is desperately necessary, just for the record), I’m going to touch lightly on another aspect of health, one more under our direct control. A more personal aspect: how we sustain ourselves. As we age, which we are all doing. While at Opal [...]
Tags: aging·Bill Cosby·health care·Time Flies
Being Fed By The Forest
November 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, nature, work
Blythe traipsed in late yesterday afternoon to our writing group’s opening session here at Opal Creek, living up to her name, towing with her a forest treasure that startled me into a double take. I’d never seen a cauliflower mushroom before. It was huger than a Halloween pumpkin but formed of air and a fawn-colored, [...]
