Archive for January, 2009
Carrier Pigeon Diary 20
This past Monday I added a diary entry rhapsodizing about the carrier pigeon’s keen ability to handle robust hauls from the grocery store. Unfortunately, I haven’t been terribly good at adding photos of the box bikes in action, though I have received several emails from readers asking for said photos. With this in mind, I [...]
Today’s Heating Fuel Prices
Listed here are today’s prices for home heating fuel delivered from our friends at Star Oil in Portland (Star is the distributor for Oregon-sourced and refined bio-diesel from Sequential Biofuels): #2 Oil (good-ole fashioned petroleum heating oil) 100 gallons: $1.92/gallon 200 gallons: $1.72/gallon B20 Bio-diesel (20% bio-diesel, made almost exclusively from waste veggie oil collected [...]
Carrier Pigeon Diary 19
The bitter cold of recent has kept our family indoors far more than we’d like, so the carrier pigeons have been sitting patiently in the garage. While family rides may be rare these days, I have managed to keep the wheels turning for trips to the grocery store. Grocery-getter trips really enable the box bike [...]
Got Milk?
This post was extracted from the article titled, Milk for the Masses, originally published January 21, 2009 at http://www.towseyfrench.com.
Back in the summer of 2005 we moved to a new home in NE Portland. Almost immediately after moving in I took note of a unique weekly visit to our neighbor’s home by a lanky, gray-haired man [...]
Milk for the Masses
Back in the summer of 2005 we moved to a new home in NE Portland. Almost immediately after moving in I took note of a unique weekly visit to our neighbor’s home by a lanky, gray-haired man driving an enormous unmarked truck, which obscured my view of his activities across the street. This fascinated and [...]
The Bear Brick Era Begins
Back on December 17, I published a post about my initial test of the manufactured wood fuel known as the Bear Brick. Here’s what I really liked about Bear Bricks: Relatively local, renewable fuel source, manufactured by Bear Mountain Forest Products in Cascade Locks, Oregon Produced using waste by-products: a mixture of douglas fir, cedar [...]
Carrier Pigeon Diary 18
It was a beautifully sunny and crisp day that called me to the road today. Mindful of the clock, I had a couple of hours before my youngest daughter’s nap, so I decided to load `em up in my pigeon and move on down the road! I didn’t have any specific destination in mind, but I [...]
Electrical Consumption and My Carbon Footprint
This post was originally published January 9, 2009, at http://www.towseyfrench.com.
Leave it to a Portland energy geek to ponder the electrical impact of his family’s wood stove –as if thinking about the carbon impact of burning wood was not enough. Whatever the case, that’s exactly what’s been buzzing in my bonnet these days.
Heating your home requires [...]
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