Who read Moby Dick in the fourth grade, has a great-grandmother who starved to death in post-Bolshevik Russia, believes you should retire at night tired from honest work, and notes that many corporations exhibit sociopathic behavior?
That would be Robert Leo Heilman, the author from rural Oregon I interviewed recently on the phone. I see him [...]
Entries Tagged as 'family'
Oregon’s Best Writer, Part II
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · entertainment, health & well being, work
Tags: art·autodidact·family·life·Oregon·Overstory: Zero·relationships·Robert Leo Heilman·transformation
Carbon Emissions: Focus On Individuals Rather Than Businesses?
July 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · sustainability
I hope the G-8 related climate talks in Italy today seriously consider Princeton researchers’ outside-the-box proposal to reduce carbon emissions (CO2). Carbon is the main driver of global warming; this new approach is part of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative that’s based at Princeton .
The Princeton group is suggesting we measure and reduce the collective carbon [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·family
Staycations: The No-Cost Phone Visit Vs. The Thousand-Dollar Trip
June 28th, 2009 · No Comments · entertainment, lifestyle, money, simplicity, transportation
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 [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·email·family·fun·green living·happiness·ktylerconk·long-distance relationships·phone conversations·relationships·staycations·thrift
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
Twenty Ways To A Simpler, Happier Life, Part III
April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · community, food & drink, health & well being, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability
This is the final installment to my three-part series on inroads to the Diamond-Cut Life (a life rich in joy, low in consumption). In Part I I talked about everything from drinking less to letting the phone ring to having one car-free day a week. In Part II I suggested creating no new debt, [...]
