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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Celebrating the Fourth, Diamond-Cut Style

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Happy Fourth of July! It’s our nation’s birthday. I’ve posted Ideas for celebrating below, based on this basic life-principle we all tend to forget:
A nation starts its life in the beginning as land, as earth — before people arrived to populate it. And that land, the soil, water and things that grow on it, are [...]

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