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Oregon’s Popularity: Be A Giver Rather Than A Taker

July 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Oregon, 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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One Portlander’s View of Michael Jackson

June 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · entertainment

Brief post today — My first thought when I learned of the death of Michael Jackson was: I hope he finds more peace now than he did in his troubled earth-walk. My second, actually ongoing thought as his life and death fills the airwaves and the front page of the New York Times is: wouldn’t [...]

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The Emotional Bandwagon Condemning Sam Adams

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · politics, sustainability

I just read another denunciation of Portland mayor Sam Adams, this one by Timothy Egan in the New York Times. Mr. Egan is outraged that Adams lied about his affair with an 18 year old in 2005. Lots of people are riding that bandwagon with him. I’m on a hill with a different perspective. What [...]

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Buying Our Carbon Offsets

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · energy, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation

by Alison Wiley Asking Linda Quirk of Run 7 On 7 to buy carbon offsets for her extensive air travel (see last post) reminded me and my husband to buy our offsets for 2008 (we can estimate the carbon we’ll burn for the rest of the year). Note: while I think that buying carbon offsets [...]

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