I grew up near Los Angeles in a baseball-loving family. We bled Dodger blue, went to games at Chavez Ravine and thrilled to Tommy LaSorda’s passionate leadership of his team. Like most people in the L.A. basin, I drove everywhere, usually by myself, on congested freeways. I hated the way congestion wasted my time, and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'transportation'
Transportation’s Version Of The San Diego Padres
July 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · transportation
Tags: baseball·San Diego Padres
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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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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Of Health Care And Rideshare
March 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · health & well being, politics, transportation
I’m deeply pleased that President Obama is signing our nation’s health care bill into law today. I have a couple of thoughts about it, and then a parallel in my own work-life.
In my view and perhaps the view of other progressives, millions of people gaining access to doctors and medicine is important, even fundamental to [...]
Tags: health care·rideshare
