Staycations in lieu of travel vacations let us have fun while living within our means and not racking up any credit card debt. Plane trips, especially for whole families, quickly run into thousands of dollars, not to mention the way restaurant meals cost double to ten times what you’d spend cooking at home. Plus, any [...]
Entries Tagged as 'carbon footprint'
Staycations: The No-Cost Phone Visit Vs. The Thousand-Dollar Trip
June 28th, 2009 · No Comments · entertainment, lifestyle, money, simplicity, transportation
Tags: carbon footprint·email·family·fun·green living·happiness·ktylerconk·long-distance relationships·phone conversations·relationships·staycations·thrift
House Votes on Carbon Cap & Trade Bill This Friday
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · politics, sustainability
Thor Hinckley, manager of the nation’s leading renewable power program, supplied this guest post. Thor is my husband. To quote from Nobel laureate Al Gore: “For those who care about the global warming catastrophe — this is the moment”. The Waxman-Markey legislation known as the Carbon Cap and Trade bill is coming up for a [...]
Tags: Al Gore·bipartisan politics·cap and trade bill·carbon footprint·climate change·global warming·Repower America·Waxman-Markey bill
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
I’m In Love! His Name Is WES . . .
June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · health & well being, lifestyle, sustainability, transportation
Call me lovestruck, call me dreamy-eyed. Forgive me if I’m a little gushy today. WES and I have discovered each other. WES takes me to all the best places . . . from Beaverton all the way to Wilsonville . . . through lush, green countryside . . . fertile wetlands . . . . [...]
Tags: 844steamtrain·bike lockers·carbon footprint·climate change·commuter rail·green living·happiness·Higgins·love·trains·WES·Wilsonville
