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How To Add Eight Years To Your Life

June 22nd, 2012 · 4 Comments · health & well being, transportation

We add eight years to our lives if we exercise regularly. That’s more than if we quit smoking. So reports

How To Follow Through On New Year’s Resolutions

December 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · health & well being, lifestyle, simplicity

I’m not just a fan of New Year’s resolutions, I’m a cheerleader for them, and for positive change in our lives in general. As a former counselor who’s worked with a full spectrum of folks — from underachieving college students and the worried well to late-stage alcoholics and drug addicts – I have a realistic [...]

Happiness In The High Desert

June 12th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, lifestyle, money, nature, Oregon

What did I do last night and how happy did it make me? I went running in the high desert, sang and got people to sing with me — for a 9 on my 1-10 scale of happiness. I’m in Bend, Oregon, for a conference on public participation. To the right is the type of [...]

Twenty Ways to a Simpler, Happier Life, Part I

March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · food & drink, health & well being, home & garden, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation

My pursuit of the Diamond-Cut Life (a life rich in joy and low in consumption) still leaves me plenty vulnerable to the excesses of U.S. culture. I love finding little inroads to simplicity and happiness like the ones I’ve listed here. I’ll publish the second half later this week. Gracefully end memberships that are no [...]

Bike. Walk. Joy.

March 10th, 2009 · 9 Comments · energy, health & well being, lifestyle, sustainability, transportation

Did you know that 40% of trips made in the U.S. are two miles or less in length? That’s walking and bicycling distance. Yet cars are currently being used for most of those trips. So much physical, sensual pleasure being bypassed as we vegetate in our vehicles! And carbon emissions needlessly created. And overweight-ness perpetuated. [...]

Fierce Vitality In Ashland, Oregon

February 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · entertainment, lifestyle

When do you feel the most vibrantly alive? Where do you feel it in your body? What activity or situation stitches your body, soul and heart all together into a joyous whole? I accidentally tripped into the zone of fierce vitality last night like Alice falling into the rabbit hole. It started out sedately. I [...]

The 80-20 Rule Of Resources

February 6th, 2009 · No Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, sustainability

I had this great plan. So many things start out that way (is it like this for you, too?). I see in hindsight that my plan did not take the 80-20 rule of resources into account. It’s a spin-off of Pareto’s Principle (Pareto being an Italian economist). To get myself to go running more during [...]

Staying Safe During Snow Adventures

December 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · community, lifestyle, simplicity, transportation

We’re in the full grip of winter, not just here in Portland Oregon but in much of the country. Given the impact of our heating bills on both our wallets and carbon emissions, tomorrow’s post will be “How To Slash Your Heating Bill”. And given that many roads are impassable to vehicles right now, today [...]

Rethinking Cars And Public Health

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation

I have another thought or two on the proposed bailout of the American auto industry. Then later this week I’ll be reporting on desalination, the increasingly popular, carbon-intensive transformation of ocean water into drinking water. While acknowledging that job loss in the auto industry (or anywhere) is extremely painful, let’s take a step back and [...]

The Wrong Use of Used Shoes

December 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, sustainability

As I entered the Hillsdale branch of the public library here in Portland just now, I was greeted in the lobby by great stacks of lightly-used athletic shoes stacked neatly in containers. Lots of containers, probably hundreds of pairs of shoes. “Oh good,” I thought warmly, “they’re collecting shoes for people who don’t have any. [...]

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