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Mind-Hiking With Stephanie Routh

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · community, sustainability, transportation

Last Friday afternoon here in Portland, Oregon brought us the most dazzling weather of the young year, with sunshine that sparkled like diamonds off the Willamette River. I celebrated the beauty of the day with a run along said riverfront and then meeting up with Stephanie Routh, definitely my best coffee date of the year [...]

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How Vampire Bars Relate To Coal Plants

January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · community, energy

Life often involves not getting what we want. Examples: the non-outcomes of the Copenhagen talks, the recent Supreme Court ruling on corporate spending for elections, and the torrential downpours that dominated my visit to Disneyland last Monday.
Sometimes, though, we do get what we want. Examples: Portland General Electric has announced it will shut down Boardman, [...]

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Enchanted With What I’ve Already Got, Part II

December 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, food & drink, home & garden

What do I feel like eating tonight? Shall I drop by the grocery store for it, or go out? That is a game I’ve often played in my life, a modern game common in developed countries because we have so many choices, so much food, so many restaurants. It hasn’t been proven, though, that the [...]

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Enchanted With What I’ve Already Got, Part I

November 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments · community, lifestyle

Remember when we were teenagers and it was so great when our parents would leave and we’d have the house to ourselves? A part of me is evidently still a teenager, because my husband left early yesterday morning for a week of wonky policy-type stuff in the east, and I’m all atwitter over having the [...]

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This And That, Approaching Thanksgiving

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, work

I’ve added a delicious new book by Amy Minato to Books I Love, one that would be great to read over the Thanksgiving weekend . . . .  at work, the rideshare proposal I’ve been working on for months with many others is finally reaching closure, thank the Goddess . . . . . Green [...]

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