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What’s Better Than A Benefit Concert?

December 13th, 2012 · 2 Comments · energy, global warming and climate change

I love that rock artists like Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi raised money for victims of Hurricane Sandy in the benefit concert last night. What I’d love more, though, is for the victims, and all of us, to become more disaster-resilient. The U.S. poles and wires electricity system that broke apart in the Northeast like matchsticks last month is

Making It Real: Barbara’s Story

December 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · community, spirituality & religion

Barbara Kutasz penned this post about the unlikely, vibrant venue in which Christmas became real to her this year. Barbara is a friend and fellow member at Lincoln Street Church here in Portland, Oregon. (If you thought us Portlanders are too liberal to embrace church, please think again: some of us progressive folks love God [...]

Adventures of Eco-Warrior Chick, Part I

October 18th, 2011 · No Comments · health & well being, Oregon, transportation

This emerging series is brought to us by an alter-ego of mine who calls herself Eco-Warrior Chick. She’s kind of edgy and out there. If she offends anyone, well, take it up with her in the Comments section. I hate gear. Anything with moving parts that isn’t in the human, plant or animal kingdom tends [...]

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Tags: gear·Next Adventure·outdoors·Portland·rain

Mind-Hiking With Stephanie Routh

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · community, sustainability, transportation

Last Friday afternoon here in Portland, Oregon brought us the most dazzling weather of the young year, with sunshine that sparkled like diamonds off the Willamette River. I celebrated the beauty of the day with a run along said riverfront and then meeting up with Stephanie Routh, definitely my best coffee date of the year [...]

Checking In: On Joyful Sabbatical

February 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · sustainability

Long time without a post! When I had lunch with my friend Allison Hamilton yesterday (Allison is the creator of Oregon’s innovative solar highway), she said she’d been assuming my silence at Diamond-Cut Life was because I’d been busy house-hunting. She knows that Thor and I are seeking a somewhat larger house, while staying in [...]

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Tags: blogging·Portland·sabbatical

Heat Wave: Slow Down II

July 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · energy, health & well being

This is a revised reprint of a May 2008 post. Here in Portland, Oregon we’re having 100 degrees plus for days running, which for our mild climate is a major heat wave. How to cope with it? I suggest we do what people did for the 99.9% of human history prior to the invention of [...]

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 [...]

The Psychology Of Naysayers On Global Warming

July 19th, 2009 · 16 Comments · sustainability

I embrace differences of opinion. Democracy is based on it, and we make each other smarter and stronger when we exchange views. However, for a literate person in 2009 to claim that human-caused global warming is not a reality is akin to a literate person in 1859 claiming slavery in the South was not a [...]

One Portlander’s View of Michael Jackson

June 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · entertainment

Brief post today — My first thought when I learned of the death of Michael Jackson was: I hope he finds more peace now than he did in his troubled earth-walk. My second, actually ongoing thought as his life and death fills the airwaves and the front page of the New York Times is: wouldn’t [...]

The Emotional Bandwagon Condemning Sam Adams

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · politics, sustainability

I just read another denunciation of Portland mayor Sam Adams, this one by Timothy Egan in the New York Times. Mr. Egan is outraged that Adams lied about his affair with an 18 year old in 2005. Lots of people are riding that bandwagon with him. I’m on a hill with a different perspective. What [...]

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