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 · Oregon, carpooling, cars, green living, happiness, lifestyle, thrift, transportation
Fun In The Time Of Global Warming
June 15th, 2008 · No Comments · 97215, carbon footprint, carpooling, community, culture, energy conservation, entertainment, environment, exercise, global warming, green living, happiness, health, hybrids, life, lifestyle, outdoors, simplicity, sustainability, thrift
With Summer Solstice and the first day of summer coming up on Saturday June 21, my theme this week will be earth-friendly recreation, or Fun In The Time Of Global Warming.
Professional work tends to keep us up in our heads, thinking so hard we practically get divorced from our bodies. I really hate that about [...]
Tags: 10k·beer·carpooling·half-marathon·Hefeweisen·Helvetia·Hollywood·Hood to Coast·movies·running
Great, Green Job Opening
May 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment · carpooling, climate change, environment, global warming, green living, sustainability, transportation
I’m hiring! Rather, the state agency I work for is hiring me a full-time assistant to work on the Governor’s Commuter Challenge (I am the program manager). Full job description and link to apply is here
Perhaps I’m biased, but this is the coolest project in the greenest state in the nation (Oregon). The theme of [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·carpooling·Oregon·sustainability·work
Carpool Survivor
April 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · carbon footprint, carpooling, hybrids, lifestyle, simplicity, transportation
I am lucky enough to be in a carpool with five great people for my two-hour round-trip commute. (I found them through Carpool Match Northwest.) We save money, save emissions and have fun. So on the morning of April Fool’s day I tossed off a prank email to them.
I wrote: “It has been such a pleasure knowing you! My new inheritance means I can now afford a
Tags: abandonment·April Fools·Carpool Match Northwest·carpooling·family·joke·prank·Prius·rideshare·Salem·Steve Earle·Survivor·work
