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Great Oregon Shake Out Today, 10:15 a.m.

January 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · health & well being, Oregon, sustainability

At 10:15 a.m. this morning, January 26, I’m joining 35,000 other Oregonians in practicing for a major earthquake. I’ll drop, cover and hold on. A little-known fact is that Oregon is in a subduction zone and will have a major earthquake, probably sooner rather than later. Today is the 300th anniversary of Oregon’s last big [...]

This Place Called Oregon

September 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · nature, Oregon

I’ve been merrily preparing for my 50th birthday party, which will take place November 13th and includes my singing in a rock band with friends new and old. Here is one of the songs we’re performing — I like writing new lyrics to existing melodies. Feel free to

Oregon’s Popularity: Be A Giver Rather Than A Taker

July 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · food & drink, lifestyle, Oregon, sustainability, transportation

Here in Chicago at the BlogHer conference, I find a near-uniform reaction from people when they learn I am from Oregon. They almost swoon. “Oh, Oregon!” these nice ladies exclaim. “It’s so green and beautiful.” Learning I am from Portland in particular amps up the positive response. “Oohhh, Portland. I love Portland. I want to [...]

Oregon’s Best Writer, Part II

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · entertainment, health & well being, work

Who read Moby Dick in the fourth grade, has a great-grandmother who starved to death in post-Bolshevik Russia, believes you should retire at night tired from honest work, and notes that many corporations exhibit sociopathic behavior? That would be Robert Leo Heilman, the author from rural Oregon I interviewed recently on the phone. I see [...]

Ban the Bag Portland!

July 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, health & well being, lifestyle, money, sustainability

The following is a guest post by Hanmi Meyer, Diamond-Cut Life’s site admin. Portland Rise Above Plastics Single-use plastic bags represent one of the greatest environmental catastrophes of our generation. It is estimated that 60-80% of all debris in the ocean is plastic. Plastics take hundreds of years to break down at sea and most [...]

The Fourth In The Forest

July 5th, 2009 · No Comments · lifestyle, nature, simplicity

If less is often more, then haiku is one of my favorite ways to practice that happy discipline. I wrote these yesterday afternoon while camping on the Fourth of July. Fourth of July at Moss Creek Campground Fireworks, begone. The piney air penetrates My limbic brain-stem. Intoxicated On The Fourth Tipsy on pine air I [...]

Oregon’s Best Writer: Robert Leo Heilman, Part I

July 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · community, sustainability, work

The Pacific Northwest where I live is a rich, complex environment so fertile that it gave rise to the coastal Indian custom of potlatch, a gift-giving ritual in which the more you gave away to others, the more status you had. (Hmm . . . what could we learn from that?) In modern times, my [...]

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

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 [...]

The Pleasures Of Pedicabs

June 19th, 2009 · No Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, transportation, work

Yesterday afternoon I alit at the Amtrak station here in Portland, heavily laden with my laptop, book-bag and purse. It would be quite a trudge to where I needed to go. What should conveniently appear at the curb but a pedicab, pedaled by a lovely young woman named Margaret? Margaret, who leases her pedicab from [...]

Happiness In The High Desert

June 12th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, lifestyle, money, nature, Oregon

What did I do last night and how happy did it make me? I went running in the high desert, sang and got people to sing with me — for a 9 on my 1-10 scale of happiness. I’m in Bend, Oregon, for a conference on public participation. To the right is the type of [...]

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