I’m deeply pleased that President Obama is signing our nation’s health care bill into law today. I have a couple of thoughts about it, and then a parallel in my own work-life. In my view and perhaps the view of other progressives, millions of people gaining access to doctors and medicine is important, even fundamental [...]
Entries Tagged as 'rideshare'
Of Health Care And Rideshare
March 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · health & well being, politics, transportation
Tags: health care·rideshare
Carpool Survivor
April 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · lifestyle, simplicity, transportation, work
I am lucky enough to be in a carpool with five great people for my two-hour round-trip commute. (I found them through Carpool Match Northwest.) We save money, save emissions and have fun. So on the morning of April Fool’s day I tossed off a prank email to them.
I wrote: “It has been such a pleasure knowing you! My new inheritance means I can now afford a
Tags: abandonment·April Fools·carbon footprint·Carpool Match Northwest·carpooling·family·hybrids·joke·prank·Prius·rideshare·Salem·Steve Earle·Survivor
The Five-Carat Commute
February 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · simplicity, sustainability, transportation, work
On the first day of my new job in Salem, Oregon yesterday, I left my house in Portland before 6 a.m. and got home about 6:4o p.m. I spent three hours and forty minutes total on the commute, including walking to and from the Capitol Mall to my building.
Ye gads. To think that millions of people around the world do this for decades of their lives in
Tags: Capitol Mall·carbon footprint·carpool·carpooling·environment·global warming·Portland·reverse commute·rideshare·Salem·saving money
