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Monday, February 6th, 2012I flew out to San Diego last week for a conference on Sustainable Remediation. It was great! I love this group of experts who are so committed and engaged in implementing sustainable protocols and methodologies into remediation projects. I had a few observations while I was traveling and thought I would share them with you [...]
Palisades Park Commission
Monday, January 9th, 2012We’ve been enjoying the unseasonably warm weather with some nice weekend hikes lately - we’ve been finding spots of nature and taking advantage of it wherever we can!. This weekend, we went for a ramble through the Palisades Park - and stumbled upon some ruins called “Millionaires Row” which really piqued our interest. One of [...]
Tractor Trailer Aerodynamics
Monday, January 2nd, 2012I drove to Ohio and back again this weekend with my partner and the little dudes to ring in the New Year at Aunt Kate with my partner’s aunts and uncles - and on the way, cruising on Rt 80, there were a few tractor trailers with lots of modifications. I’ve seen many of them [...]
Rochester UFO Sightings!
Monday, October 24th, 2011A friend of mine sent a truly awesome link to a local Rochester campaign designed to get people onto public transportation - the Rochester Vanishing campaign boldly points out that “ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN ROCHESTER, OVER 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS VANISH. I mean, check out this awesome graphic (courtesy Rochester Vanishing): THAT is compelling. Really [...]
Bus Vs. Taxi
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011Today was my lucky day- I got to spend a few luxurious hours floating in a hot spring, watching birds flit overhead, and swimming down a long tunnel into the darkness of a hot cave- and I appreciated every minute of it! On my way out there, though, I had a Tiny Choice to make: [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Carpool!
Saturday, September 24th, 2011Let’s face it: when you’re most busy, adding inflexibility into your schedule can seem like the worst thing in the world. And for many of us carpooling really does seem to be the area of environmental change that is the most difficult to wrangle, because it adds another (or several others) equally-as-busy schedules into the [...]
Free Bikeshare For Fashion Week
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011Apparently, this is Fashion Week here in NYC, which I didn’t know until I was out and about and running into what were apparently fashion shows on practically every corner. And, normally, Fashion Week wouldn’t excite me in the least. But then I passed the absolute coolest thing down in the Meatpacking District, and I knew I [...]
Camping Choices
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011I’ve written before about the camping choices my family and I make - small car camping! We fit everything into our compact car (with roof rack), squeeze our bodies into the car, and head out merrily to find our adventure! (For those of you in other countries, this may not seem groundbreaking, but - in [...]
Carmegeddeon!
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011In the Carmegeddon Thunderdome, only the BICYCLES leave! Did you hear about the LA freeway being shut down this weekend? I didn’t, really, until I noticed that lots of tweets this weekend included the hashtag #wolfpackhustle - which is so hilarious that I had to look it up. It turns out that while Rt 405 [...]
Electric Motorcycles!
Monday, June 20th, 2011I had a super exciting day last week - the kind of day that I can’t stop talking about. It started out pretty reasonably, I had a day full of errands so I worked at home in the morning, then rode my motorcycle to the shop for a maintenance appointment. Instead of getting someone from [...]
June Bikey Links
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011Kid Learns to Ride a Bike, Feels Happy of Himself (best video ever!) People Are Awesome: Anonymous Donor Giving Cash to Toronto Cyclists for Their “Leadership” Bikes Used To Sell Everything (while I’m not pro-shilling, I am pro-biking…) The Yike Bike could make bike commuters of us all (in between fits of Yike-related giggling, that [...]
What if everything ran on gas?
Monday, June 13th, 2011That’s the question that this Nissan Leaf commercial asks: It’s pretty cute, and also pretty scary. I think it’s important to remember, though, that this is a really good illustration of TAILPIPE emissions - if you flip this message around, it can easily represent localizing the effects of electricity generation for all of your daily [...]
Why hello there, Chicago Airport
Monday, May 23rd, 2011I posted last week that I was having a hard time working out some travel choices - I had to fly to Chicago, see, and I didn’t know if I’d be able to hack the public transportation trip there. I know, what a horrible thing for a co-blogger to confess on her very own website [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Adventure Nearby!
Saturday, May 21st, 2011Now that the weather’s warming up for many of us, it’s time to shake off those winter blahs and get outside again. As you plan vacations and getaways and daytrips, first take a moment to think about what’s nearby and what kind of local adventures you can have. Whether there’s a park you’ve never been [...]
How to fit in better travel choices?
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011I’ve found myself telling a lot of people lately that when I find myself making a non-green travel choice? it’s because I’ve run out of time. Ugh! And that’s so true for me now - I’m flying out this afternoon for a conference in Chicago, and I need to get to Laguardia Airport. Which is [...]
Smartphones Instead of Cars
Thursday, May 12th, 2011For someone who’s online nearly all the time, I’ve always been behind the curve on my choice of mobile phones. A few months ago I upgraded to a keyboard phone for texting, but when I switched plans recently I downgraded back to a regular simple basic cellphone like they had back in 1982 (seems like [...]
Going Slow really DOES make mileage better
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011I’m vacationing this week and we are riding around the mountains in western VA on our motorcycle - and one of the things that we really enjoyed was traveling the Skyline Drive - not only is it an old CCC project, it’s also incredibly gorgeous (see the photo above for proof!). The Tiny Choices angle [...]
Making bigger choices a little tinier
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011I mentioned before that I’m helping out with my companies Better Way to Work week - and between that and the increases in gas prices, I’ve been trying to think of more creative ways to convince people to give a new thing (like public transit, carpooling, or even just avoiding plastic bottles) a shot. I [...]
Vacationing: the (kitcheny) things we bring
Monday, May 2nd, 2011I’ve said a few times that I like camping small, and motorcycle travel because it limits the amount of stuff that I can BRING with me. Packing light is important to me (and I think to Jenn too) because, well, sometimes you just need to be able to hop on a bus and not worry [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Do something for Bike Month!
Saturday, April 30th, 2011Here in the U.S. of A., May is bike month! In honor of this month of advocacy, evaluate where you can work bicycling into your busy schedule. Make extra time to get where you’re going so you’ll have time to take your bicycle on short neighborhood trips, to the grocery store, or over to a [...]
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