This is a guest post from my friend Christina, who has a Master’s degree in nursing from Yale and the most irrepressible spirit I’ve met here in my Mt. Tabor neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. In May I put down the gauntlet to my boss. Bike to work one day a week starting
Entries Tagged as 'bicycling'
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. [...]
Tags: Bicycle Transportation Alliance·bicycling·Mount Tabor·Seven Virtues Coffeehouse·Stephanie Nolls
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 [...]
Tags: bicycling·blackberries·concerts·Edgefield·greed·Mt. Tabor Park·Oregon Zoo·summertime·The Fray
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 [...]
Tags: bicycling·carbon footprint·consumption·contest·energy conservation·family·fun·gift certificates·green living·happiness·life·links·Oregon·outdoors·religion·renewable energy·resources·thrift·water
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 [...]
Tags: bicycling·carbon footprint·cars·Cascadia Pedicab·fun·green living·happiness·Oregon·outdoors·pedicab·technology
