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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.
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The Happy Greed Of Summer

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments · entertainment, lifestyle, transportation

I try to not be crazily greedy in the summertime. But it’s difficult, after the many months of rain and cold and dark you get living so far from the equator.

Summertime is not about a greed for things or possessions. Summer, at least for me, sparks a near-manic greed for experiences, the experiences I [...]

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Introducing: Resources For Good Living, Plus Contest With Two $50 Winners

June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · energy, entertainment, food & drink, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation, work

My sidekick Hanmi Meyer and I are pleased to be posting this morning our new page Resources For Good Living. It’s a set of links, well-labeled and organized, to cool sites that help us increase our happiness and lower our consumption. While this opening date  is a bit behind schedule (the summer solstice had been [...]

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The Pleasures Of Pedicabs

June 19th, 2009 · No Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, transportation, work

Yesterday afternoon I alit at the Amtrak station here in Portland, heavily laden with my laptop, book-bag and purse. It would be quite a trudge to where I needed to go. What should conveniently appear at the curb but a pedicab, pedaled by a lovely young woman named Margaret?
Margaret, who leases her pedicab from Cascadia [...]

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Humbled By Haagen Dazs! The Plan . . .

June 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments · food & drink, health & well being

My consumption habits are definitely still a work in progress. Not only has Carpool Guy pointed out to me that I’m crazy to do a 100 mile commute three days a week (something I had actually admitted up front) but I have a pathological relationship to Haagen Dazs ice cream. Here is the deal, and [...]

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