The following is a guest post by Hanmi Meyer, Diamond-Cut Life’s site admin.
Portland Rise Above Plastics
Single-use plastic bags represent one of the greatest environmental catastrophes of our generation. It is estimated that 60-80% of all debris in the ocean is plastic. Plastics take hundreds of years to break down at sea and most types [...]
Tags: activism·climate change·conservation·energy conservation·environment·green living·Oregon·outdoors·peak oil·petroleum·plastic·saving money·surfrider foundation·thrift·waste
If less is often more, then haiku is one of my favorite ways to practice that happy discipline. I wrote these yesterday afternoon while camping on the Fourth of July.
Fourth of July at Moss Creek Campground
Fireworks, begone.
The piney air penetrates
My limbic brain-stem.
Intoxicated On The Fourth
Tipsy on pine air
I decline the wine, and write
Of independence.
Independence [...]
Tags: Camping·Fourth of July·fun·happiness·independence·Little White Salmon·Michael@NW Lens·Moss Creek·Oregon·outdoors
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
Yesterday afternoon I alit at the Amtrak station here in Portland, heavily laden with my laptop, book-bag and purse. It would be quite a trudge to where I needed to go. What should conveniently appear at the curb but a pedicab, pedaled by a lovely young woman named Margaret?
Margaret, who leases her pedicab from Cascadia [...]
Tags: bicycling·carbon footprint·cars·Cascadia Pedicab·fun·green living·happiness·Oregon·outdoors·pedicab·technology
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 [...]
Tags: American Pie·Bend·exercise·fun·happiness·high desert·Janet Johnson·Oregon·outdoors·public participation·running·thrift
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