Watching General Motors going through its tortured downsizing, bankruptcy and reinvention of itself makes me think of how bloated our relationship to cars here in the U.S. has been for decades. (And I wish with all my heart that every laid-off employee will find a new job soon.)
What all of us need and have always [...]
Entries Tagged as 'carpooling'
Saving Up To $12,384/Year Via Vanpooling
June 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, energy, health & well being, lifestyle, money, sustainability, transportation
Tags: carpooling·cars·General Motors·green living·happiness·Oregon·thrift·vanpooling
Building The Web of Community
March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, health & well being, sustainability
As much as I like people and friendship and community, I rarely feel I have enough of any of these in my life. I want more. I blame the deficit partly on my own individualistic tendencies. (After all, I was a self-employed artist/writer from 1992-2004, and some individualism goes with the artistic territory).
But more fundamentally, [...]
Tags: artist·carpooling·Christmas cards·conferences·email·friendship·happiness·movies·people·trainings·vacations·writer
Vanpool As Study Hall
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · community, sustainability, transportation
I’m back after a week-long break from Diamond-Cut Life. I’ve been reading Bill McKibben’s excellent book Deep Economy . . . . . was delighted by President Obama’s speech last night (clean energy, what a concept!) . . . . . attended a good Illahee lecture about desire . . . . have been organizing [...]
Tags: carpool·carpooling·environment·happiness·relationships·vanpool
Top Ten Tips For Carpooling, Part II
January 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · sustainability
I have a 100-mile commute here in Oregon, from Portland to Salem, the state capitol, that I do three times a week with a congenial carpool (six of us in total). Carpooling is saving me $6,800/year, using this cost calculator. I also telework two days a week, and teleworking will be the subject of a [...]
Tags: carpool·carpooling·commuting·consensus·fantasy leagues·majority rule
Top Ten Tips For Carpooling, Part I
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · money, simplicity, sustainability, work
Coming up on my one-year anniversary in my carpool, I recently wrote a post about how it is saving me $6,800/year according to this cost calculator. (I have a 100 mile round trip, and five carpool partners). I’m also saving a lot of carbon emissions, and arriving at work and back at home sweeter and [...]
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