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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'transportation'
Mind-Hiking With Stephanie Routh
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · community, sustainability, transportation
Tags: Alice B. Toeclips; Willamette Pedestrian Coalition·Portland·Stephanie Routh
Turning Over A New Leaf?
January 10th, 2010 · No Comments · transportation
What car trumps the hybrid Prius, so popular in progressive and now even mainstream circles, and proves its emissions-virginity by . . . . having no tailpipe?
Answer: the Nissan Leaf, an 100% electric vehicle (EV) coming out later this year. Thor and I went to a Nissan-sponsored event last month here in Portland at the [...]
Tags: EV's·Nissan Leaf
Embracing Our Sphere Of Influence
January 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · energy, entertainment, food & drink, global warming and climate change, health & well being, home & garden, nature, spirituality & religion, sustainability, transportation
Have you ever stared down a paralyzing fear – and gained mastery of it, to where you then walked into your power, your sphere of influence? This is my long-promised sequel to Alison Cassandra Barcelona, in which I’ll tell why I feel hope rather than despair about
Tags: 350.0rg·collapse·copenhagen talks·faith·nightmares·roommates·sphere of influence
Cattails, Not Corn, Into Ethanol
December 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · energy, global warming and climate change, transportation
You might have already known this, but I did not, and am intrigued to have found out: ethanol, the gasoline substitute that can help the U.S. achieve much-needed energy independence from the volatile Mideast, does not have to be made from corn, at all. That’s good news for two reasons: it takes huge fossil-fuel inputs [...]
Tags: cattails·Climate Masters program·corn·energy independence·ethanol·Eugene·Joshua Skov·The Good company·Tim Thurkow
Cars, Climate And Creature Comforts
November 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · community, global warming and climate change, transportation
My post Rethinking Our Entitlement To Travel drew a thoughtful, in-depth comment from Tyler Karaszewski which draws my respect but not my agreement.
In Tyler’s vision, 50 years from now we’ll still be driving as much as we please, but in cars emitting little or no carbon. The transformation to a low-carbon world will have been [...]
Tags: creature comforts·electric cars·future·natural world·standard of living·stewardship·Tyler Karaszewski
