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A Beautiful Marriage of Dance And Sport

November 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · entertainment, global warming and climate change

I’m enchanted to read about “Battle of the Blades”, the Canadian TV show that pairs champion ice dancers with professional hockey players. The artistic athletes do ice-dance routines in a competition format similar to “Dancing With The Stars” — and have quickly reached similar popularity.
Why am I enchanted? At least two reasons: Dance and sport [...]

Bike. Walk. Joy.

March 10th, 2009 · 3 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.
The [...]

Renewables Are Not Sugar-Daddies, But Equal-Opportunity Lovers

March 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · energy, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability

In his lean, lovely book Deep Economy, Bill McKibben explains that we should see wind and solar energy as our partners in meeting our energy needs. They’re not sugar-daddies, like fossil fuels, giving us whatever we want when we want it. (OK, sugar-daddy is my phrase, not Bill’s. So is equal-opportunity lover). We have [...]

Why Bother? Three Great Reasons

April 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments · sustainability

Of all the good pieces in today’s Green Issue of New York Times magazine, “Why Bother?” by Michael Pollan is the one that helps us see that lower-consumption lifestyles are crucial in dealing with global warming, Inventors and legislators cannot rescue us.

1.) Pollan points out that being a role model is powerful. As various citizens like you and me consume significantly less, especially in terms of fossil fuels, other

Hillary and the Concept of Legal And Rare

March 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · politics, sustainability

I’m glad that Hillary Clinton is back in the presidential race. While I wish she would mount a a truly appropriate response to global warming, I respect the way she has reached across party lines in the past as a senator to help make abortion both legal and rare. (Repeated research has shown that is what most Americans would like abortion to be.)

Let’s run today with that concept of

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