Last Friday afternoon here in Portland, Oregon brought us the most dazzling weather of the young year, with sunshine that sparkled like diamonds off the Willamette River. I celebrated the beauty of the day with a run along said riverfront and then meeting up with Stephanie Routh, definitely my best coffee date of the year [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Portland'
Mind-Hiking With Stephanie Routh
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · community, sustainability, transportation
Tags: Alice B. Toeclips; Willamette Pedestrian Coalition·Portland·Stephanie Routh
Checking In: On Joyful Sabbatical
February 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · sustainability
Long time without a post! When I had lunch with my friend Allison Hamilton yesterday (Allison is the creator of Oregon’s innovative solar highway), she said she’d been assuming my silence at Diamond-Cut Life was because I’d been busy house-hunting. She knows that Thor and I are seeking a somewhat larger house, while staying in [...]
Tags: blogging·Portland·sabbatical
Heat Wave: Slow Down II
July 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · energy, health & well being
This is a revised reprint of a May 2008 post. Here in Portland, Oregon we’re having 100 degrees plus for days running, which for our mild climate is a major heat wave. How to cope with it? I suggest we do what people did for the 99.9% of human history prior to the invention of [...]
Tags: air conditioning·coal plants·heat wave·hydropower·Portland·swamp coolers
Oregon’s Popularity: Be A Giver Rather Than A Taker
July 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · food & drink, lifestyle, sustainability, transportation
Here in Chicago at the BlogHer conference, I find a near-uniform reaction from people when they learn I am from Oregon. They almost swoon. “Oh, Oregon!” these nice ladies exclaim. “It’s so green and beautiful.”
Learning I am from Portland in particular amps up the positive response. “Oohhh, Portland. I love Portland. I want to [...]
Tags: 97215·BlogHer·land use laws·Oregon·Portland·quality of life·volunteering
The Psychology Of Naysayers On Global Warming
July 19th, 2009 · 16 Comments · sustainability
I embrace differences of opinion. Democracy is based on it, and we make each other smarter and stronger when we exchange views. However, for a literate person in 2009 to claim that human-caused global warming is not a reality is akin to a literate person in 1859 claiming slavery in the South was not a [...]
Tags: Bill Bigelow·climate change·denial·Exxon-Mobil·global warming·IPCC·ODD·Portland·psychology
