“Pause — are they the things on the dog’s feet?” Mahamudi asked me last night. We were doing our twice-weekly reading lesson here at my house. He arrived in the U.S. from Somalia three years ago. Now he is 14, and like his parents, he never learned to read or write in his native language. [...]
Entries from August 25th, 2010
Portland Sustainability Experts Name ‘Behavior Change’ As Top Pick
August 13th, 2010 · No Comments · sustainability
This is a guest post by Thor Hinckley, who manages the nation’s leading renewable energy program at Portland General Electric. Thor is also my husband. At a meeting yesterday held at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, I was very encouraged to see a room full of sustainability experts endorse “behavior change” as a key strategy for forming a [...]
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Grabbing Back Our Lost Opportunities
August 4th, 2010 · No Comments · community, entertainment, health & well being
I’m inspired today by a good piece at Get Rich Slowly by Robert Brokamp on the high cost of modern gadgets. Mr. Brokamp points out that his iPhone, alone, costs him $1,251 per year, counting in the taxes he has to earn and pay beyond the $876 he’s paying to the iPhone folks, themselves. I [...]
