Airline Travel: A No-Fly Zone for Environmentalists?

I’ve just returned from a business trip to California. For those of you who are keeping score, that’s a rather large footprint that extends from the nation’s capitol to the Pacific coast. A 3,000 mile greenhouse gas trail that enlarges my personal footprint.  If there’s an upside, it’s that I shared my guilty pleasure with [...]

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Simple Living, Personified

I wanted to pass along a site well worth reading. That’s Swell is a blog written by Megan, an artist who, along with her husband, David, as made a serious commitment to simple living.  Here’s a link to her story.  She gives detailed descriptions of how she makes buying decisions, products she buys and where [...]

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Supressing the Need for Speed, Part I

 

It’s about 6:45 am, time to begin my morning commute to work. Actually, commute isn’t nearly descriptive enough for this trip. A better word might be odyssey. Fortunately, the sun is coming up over the horizon, and Aretha Franklin is serenading: 
“At work, I just take time 
And all through my coffee break time
 
 

I say [...]

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Cutting My Footprint at the Farmer’s Market

It’s a bright sunny afternoon, and I’m enjoying a trip to a local farmers’ market in Fairfax, VA. 
It’s a great experience moving among shoppers inspecting fresh fruits and vegetables, honey, flowers and other items. I’ve always loved farmers’ markets.  It’s an intimate setting where producer and consumer can meet up close and personal. I still have [...]

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Reducing Consumption of Bottled Beverages

 
Today is a memorable day in my journey. I’m about to make my first significant lifestyle change. It’s nothing major, mind you, but it’s a step in the right direction.  I’m about to change a ritual I carry out about two or three times a week, in which I dispose of about 15 plastic bottles at the recycling [...]

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