Archive for the 'Sustainable living' Category

E-recycling in DC

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

D.C.-area people should note that the EPA will have having an electronic recycling drive on Sunday, April 20:

Event Location and Details Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Freedom Plaza, Washington, DC Corner of 13th and E Streets, NW Metro: Metro Center and Federal Triangle

no Federal property please!
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Atlanta people! Freedom from the car!

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Few friends come as good as K. (for Katharine, who’s identified herself with her blog, so I’m glad to do the same) who writes at pointedview. So I think she’ll forgive me for cribbing her whole post, addressed to metro Atlanta residents. But leave her the comments; it’s how you show the love.

Metro Atlanta residents: […]

Shared bike comes to DC

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Self-service shared bicycle stations, featured in European cities, comes to the United States first in Washington, D.C. (Or perhaps not; there seems to have been programs elsewhere. So it must be the automated, self-service piece.) A good idea, I think given our strong transit use and relatively flat terrain.

The stations locations, plainly, couldn’t be better […]

Practice now to cope later

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Whether you look to the emerging global environmental crisis, the emerging global financial crisis or the spiritual and cultural crisis that may come from the two, I think life is going to be harder for most people as time goes on. Of course, for millions, the hardship may be fatal or at the very least […]

One way I find US made goods

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I’ve rehearsed before why I prefer and promote US made goods, but sometimes they’re hard to find in certain sectors. So I use a variety of resources to find leads. The irony is that one of my favorites is a Canadian source. (I’ll choose Canadian goods over other countries’ when that’s an option.)

There’s a fun […]

Green growing edges

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Any current or former seminarian will know about those d**d growing edges. Places where you can improve, explore, consider. And since public self-reflection is both a discipline for Holy Week and honored in the New England Christian tradition, here are some of my next steps for greener living. If that’s not too sick making.

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I still drink tap water

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Tap water is cheap, democratic (in that water authorities provide a public good) and remarkably safe. It doesn’t take enormous amounts of oil to be bottled and shipped. Apart from the rare, unavailable bottle — mostly when I’m hot and exhausted in tourist areas of D.C. and there’s no fountain, or when I’m visiting someone’s […]

Ethical consumption update

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The pressure on world grain production — crop failures, diversion of biofuel production — has created huge price increases and I have a hard time imagining how millions of the world’s poorest people will manage to eat when they get priced out of the cheapest food available.

Point one: Cyclone and storm damage leaves Bangladesh’s […]

Weight goal (stage one) met

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

I’m a half-pound under 210, meaning I’ve passed the goal I set for myself to meet by the end of March.

Just a little happy boasting. But I continue to remember those who are having a harder time being the healthy weight they hope and work to be.

Getting clothes the right way

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I just mentioned Project Runway: a delightful show with tons of pluck that enlivens an industry that I want far, far away from me. (I enjoyed Six Feet Under, too, but that doesn’t mean I trust funeral homes now.) The unspoken assumption of the show is that women are decorative and probably vain, and […]


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