1.) Ads. Don’t want ‘em. I’m jonesing for readership, not dollars. 2.) Hatchet jobs on anyone or anything. I’m here to be constructive, not tear things down. I’ve angered some people with some measured criticism, but at the same time I’ve suggested a positive path they might consider taking. I’ve even rewarded someone who took [...]
Entries Tagged as 'green living'
Ten Things You WON’T Find On This Site
June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · lifestyle, work
Tags: ads·cars·consumption·fun·green living·happiness·life·rich and famous·technology·thrift·water
Jean Goes Green With Clothes
June 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · lifestyle, sustainability
As some of you know, I struggle not just with a weakness for Haagen Dazs, but some clothes-horse tendencies, as well. While I can proudly report 17 days of abstinence today from any ice cream (and I don’t feel deprived, I feel fine), I confess to a little shopping episode at Patagonia before I left [...]
Tags: clothes·consumption·Go Green With Jean·green living·Jean Baumann·Naked Lady Party·Rex Burkholder
Free Ways To Enjoy Ourselves
June 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, money
The economy has many of us scared and tense, whether or not we still have the job and homes we had a year or two ago. Thor and I are lucky that our jobs and house situation are yet unchanged, but of course we’ve lost a big portion of what we’d put away for retirement, [...]
Tags: fun·green living
Getting Paid For Home-Grown Renewable Energy
June 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · energy, lifestyle, sustainability, work
Vermont has beat out Oregon in becoming the first state to allow people creating their own renewable energy to be paid competitive rates for the energy they are putting into the grid. Vermont’s feed-in tariff legislation passed May 27, 2009, and is a breakthrough in the energy world, which has been dominated by large utilities [...]
Tags: green living·Oregon·renewable energy·technology·thrift
Saving Up To $12,384/Year Via Vanpooling
June 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, energy, health & well being, lifestyle, money, sustainability, transportation
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 [...]
Tags: carpooling·cars·General Motors·green living·happiness·Oregon·thrift·vanpooling
