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Prop C, Baby!

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Energy, Politics, Sustainability | No Comments »

Two days left, for a lot of things, but especially for Proposition C in Missouri. My last post was about the measure as is this one. I spent a few hours this morning canvassing with literature outside the Edward Jones ...

Pick Your Cancer

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Ideas, Politics, Sustainability, Technology | 1 Comment »

Ohhhh 'bama, what have you done? Offshore drilling? Really? Our cancer isn't the dependency on foreign oil, it's the dependency on oil period, and other fossil fuels, from wherever they hail. Oil taken from our backyards, or coal from our stripped lands, ...

It’s Electric, Boogie, Woogie, Woogie!

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Sustainability, Technology, Transportation | 2 Comments »

I've searched the web to get on a waiting list for an electric car and have been disappointed. Are these manufacturers that far from delivering a working product that they're not even taking names? Shame on them. If anyone knows ...

A Study In Contrast

Saturday, July 12th, 2008 Posted in Design, Sustainability, Transportation | No Comments »

Katie and I head back east (to the Midwest) tomorrow after 10 days of sun and fun, and a little bit of learning. We spent most of our time in Sacramento and San Francisco, though we drove between the two ...

San Francisustainability

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Sustainability | No Comments »

The wife and I are in San Francisco, California this week on vacation.  As most of you probably know, no other city in America offers the same level of sustainability. From zero emission public buses to no plastic bags, from city-wide recycling ...