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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'renewable energy'
Introducing: Resources For Good Living, Plus Contest With Two $50 Winners
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · energy, entertainment, food & drink, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation, work
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
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 and [...]
Tags: green living·Oregon·renewable energy·technology·thrift
110,000 New Jobs In Solar Industry
May 16th, 2009 · No Comments · energy, lifestyle, sustainability, work
Today’s post is a guest column from Frank Marquardt, author of The Solar Job Guide.
The solar industry could create as many as 110,000 jobs over the next two years as a result of stimulus spending, according to the American Solar Energy Society. Now a new book, The Solar Job Guide, tells you how you [...]
Tags: development·Frank Marquardt·green careers·green living·green-collar jobs·happiness·Oregon·renewable energy·solar energy·technology·The Solar Job Guide
Living It Up At The Laurelhurst
April 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, energy, entertainment, work
I took myself to a movie at the Laurelhurst last night, Monday being my night on my own that I often use to see my girlfriends. I visited Vicki and her sweet but depressed dog Ruby, but then she had to go teach a community college class helping women find jobs in the current economy. [...]
Tags: culture·fun·Laurelhurst Theater·New Deal Pizza·renewable energy·Slumdog Millionaire·Vicki Lind
Renewables Are Not Sugar-Daddies, But Equal-Opportunity Lovers
March 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · energy, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability
In his lean, lovely book Deep Economy, Bill McKibben explains that we should see wind and solar energy as our partners in meeting our energy needs. They’re not sugar-daddies, like fossil fuels, giving us whatever we want when we want it. (OK, sugar-daddy is my phrase, not Bill’s. So is equal-opportunity lover). We have [...]
Tags: Bill McKibben·conservation·consumption·fossil fuels·green living·happiness·life·oil·Oregon·renewable energy·Sebastiano Pitruzzello·solar energy·sugar-daddy·technology·thrift·wind turbines
