Greetings from Alison Wiley here in Portland, Oregon. I'm a writer/doer/thinker who lives happily by putting people, nature and God ahead of accumulating more stuff. Read more →
I’m penning just a short post today before I take the bus into downtown Portland for meetings on transportation options. (Happily, it appears that the statewide/interstate rideshare project we’ve been working on for a long time will officially be granted its funding today.) As the world’s climate talks in Copenhagen approach their conclusion on Friday, [...]
Tags: civil disobedience·Copenhagen·demonstrators·Dr. Martin Luther King·James Howard Kuntzler·long emergency·Mahatma Gandhi
It’s a frigid 18 degrees as I write here in Portland, Oregon, with the air so dry that the skin on the back of my right hand is brittle, cracking into little red lesions, despite my frequently rubbing lotion into them to keep them supple. In this same moment, Copenhagen, Denmark where the world climate [...]
Tags: alternative energy·climate·Copenhagen·Economist·GDP·weather
Why is 350 the most important number in the world? In what way are the world’s leaders deciding the future of the earth in Copenhagen this December? And despite Bill McKibben’s brilliance and his Deep Economy being one of my all-time favorite books, why did I leave his keynote address at the Muddy Boot Festival [...]
Tags: Bill McKibben·carbon emissions·Copenhagen·government·Muddy Boot Festival·sacrifice
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