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 sustainable [...]
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Portland Sustainability Experts Name ‘Behavior Change’ As Top Pick
August 13th, 2010 · No Comments · sustainability
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My New Approach To Climate Change
July 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · energy, global warming and climate change, sustainability, transportation
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced there will be no climate change bill this year. Many of us are disappointed, and outrage better describes the reaction of many who’d let themselves hold hope of responsible leadership concerning climate. I just read the Grist article and comments on this topic.
I respect those willing to keep [...]
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We’re Seeking A Housemate!
July 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments · sustainability
I’ve have had so many good experiences with housemates that I’ve never understood why the practice isn’t more common among people who are post-college — even here in Portland, Oregon, where reducing your carbon footprint is a fairly normal conversation topic.
Our house is:
Newly built, spacious, with lots of light
Highly energy-efficient
Housemate’s bedroom is 12′ x 16.5′ with bathroom [...]
Back On The Bike
June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · community, global warming and climate change, sustainability, transportation
I’m sipping coffee at Seven Virtues* Coffeehouse on NE Glisan and 60th here in Portland, Oregon. Neil Young’s plaintive song Sugar Mountain is playing on the sound system. I suspect he’s referring to how I drink my coffee. I’m Seven Virtues’ first customer, having bicycled briskly over in the sharply slanted light of early morning.
I [...]
Tags: Bicycle Transportation Alliance·bicycling·Mount Tabor·Seven Virtues Coffeehouse·Stephanie Nolls
We’ve Found Our New House
May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · community, sustainability, transportation
Besides working on my novel, called Revelle, and my day job in transportation options being intense this spring, the other reason for infrequent posts this year has been Thor’s and my time-consuming search for a new house. The kind that has more than one bathroom, and is built to better earthquake and energy efficiency codes [...]
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