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 →
This is a guest post from my friend Christina, she of joy-riding fame. What makes a neighborhood delightful, a place we want to be, that urban planners’ favorite word: “livable”? My own lovely neighborhood on the west flank of Mt. Tabor here in Portland, Oregon, has been grappling with a problem. The city has a [...]
Tags: bike lanes·livability·Mt Tabor·neighborhood·urban planners
Guest post by award-winning journalist Colleen Kaleda: My husband and I recently bought a 96 year old house in a close-in neighborhood of Northeast Portland. If our land could talk — oh what would it say? Perhaps that it wants to shed its excess pavement. Our sidewalk still has hand-forged steel rings where horses used [...]
Tags: Colleen Kaleda·concrete·culture·demolition·development·environment·EPA·land·Leo Reynolds·life·neighborhood·outdoors·pavement
The following is a guest post by Jim Meyer. Diamond-Cut Life welcomes your topical submissions. If you would like to write a guest post, please contact us. Let’s get frank about the current pressures on the US lifestyle and environment as it’s been constructed up to now: A lot of people are getting squeezed. We [...]
Tags: best picture·bicycle·car-free·cars·climate change·convenience·culture·development·early adopters·economics·environment·grassroots·green lifestyle·green living·happiness·Infrastructure·neighborhood·parks·public transit·social change·sprawl
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