What’s this and who’s writing it?
I’m Alison Wiley, and I live in Portland, Oregon. My blog, The Diamond-Cut Life, is about chiseling our consumption down to the core of happiness. What do we really need to consume and do in order to have both happiness and integrity in the face of global warming?
I think joy comes from honest work, relationships, connection to nature, sharing resources and using our bodies instead of machines whenever possible. Given that global warming is the problem of our time, my focus is on living in solutions rather than complaining about the problem. Please comment on my posts so that we are all putting our heads together.
I’ve done projects for the Oregon League of Conservation Voters and Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center, and I won the Program of the Year award for a car-trip-reduction program I led and expanded in 2007.
I have a B.S. in Sociology from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and an M.S. in Counseling Psychology from California State University, Fullerton. My wonderful husband Thor Hinckley heads the nation’s leading renewable energy program at Portland General Electric.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Brian Davies // Mar 18, 2008 at 2:13 am
Hi Alison,
My wife Kim and I also thoroughly enjoyed the Crater Lake Trip. I do hope that you can pass along your contact information - it would be great to stay in touch about the Bicycle related transportation we discussed. Take good care, and say hello to Thor for us.
Brian and Kim Davies
2 Dave // Mar 20, 2008 at 12:56 am
Hi Alison,
Here’s a juicy little graphic that was posted on our bulletin board
http://learningfundamentals.com.au/resources/combating-global-warming-mind-map/
- Dave
3 Joe Lowe // May 12, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Alison,
Hi, I came across you blog while searching Grist. I am a journalism student at Ohio University beginning a project to study the advantages and disadvantages of online environmental reporting. Would you have time or be interested by helping with an interview?
Thanks, Joe Lowe
4 Frank // Jun 13, 2008 at 9:10 am
The new site looks great! Nice job.
5 Danny Bloom // Jul 15, 2008 at 3:48 am
alison
i used to live in corvallis and eugene, time when Mt St Helens blew. graduate work at OSU. Now in Taiwan, Japan, Alaska. From Boston 1949.
did i ever tell you about polar cities? it’s my take on the glo war future, but with a positive happy ending maybe in 3500……but yes, we are in big trouble now, and we need NEW thinking and I love your idea of getting rid of all our so called entitlements to travel, consumption etc….we don;’t need half those things, most of them we dont need…..sigh
danny, homeless, retirement fund less, own nothing, no car, coasting to the finish line…. and working on polar cities, aka LOVELOCK RETREATS ideas…
northwardho.blogspot.com
what do you think of polar cities idea? just to get people THINKING!
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