Diamond-Cut Life

Sustainable Living: More Joy And Less Consumption In The Face Of Global Warming

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Ousting The Pavement

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Guest post by award-winning journalist Colleen Kaleda:
My husband and I recently bought a 96 year old house in a close-in neighborhood of Northeast Portland. If our land could talk — oh what would it say? Perhaps that it wants to shed its excess pavement.

Our sidewalk still has hand-forged steel rings where horses used [...]

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Paddling the Carbon Lifeboat

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Ewan O’Leary, the founder of the carbon offset company Little Carbon Feet, wrote the below (in italics) in response to my and Brandt Smith’s dialogue on Rethinking the Entitlement of Travel. I agree with Ewan that we’re in a lifeboat (emergency) situation with needing to reduce our carbon emissions — hence the title “Paddling the [...]

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Tags: carbon footprint · development · energy conservation · global warming · green living · lifestyle