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 [...]
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110,000 New Jobs In Solar Industry
May 16th, 2009 · No Comments · energy, lifestyle, sustainability, work
Tags: development·Frank Marquardt·green careers·green living·green-collar jobs·happiness·Oregon·renewable energy·solar energy·technology·The Solar Job Guide
The Best $400 We Spent This Month
April 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments · community, money, transportation
It’s the last day of the month, a good day to look at household finances and where money was well spent and less well spent. You know me; I embrace thrift. I continued my theme of drinking less alcohol, including in social settings where ‘everyone’ is drinking, and it’s been wonderful. It saves money but [...]
Tags: alcohol·bicycling·Fred Meyer·Oregon·relationships·Somalia·technology·thrift
Bike. Walk. Joy.
March 10th, 2009 · 7 Comments · energy, health & well being, lifestyle, sustainability, transportation
Did you know that 40% of trips made in the U.S. are two miles or less in length? That’s walking and bicycling distance. Yet cars are currently being used for most of those trips. So much physical, sensual pleasure being bypassed as we vegetate in our vehicles! And carbon emissions needlessly created. And overweight-ness perpetuated. [...]
Tags: bicycling·carbon footprint·conservation·energy independence·exercise·fossil fuels·fun·happiness·life·outdoors·technology·walking
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
