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Leave A Light On For Me
In 2006, I received a packet of neighborhood watch information from the Office of Neighborhood Involvement (a division of the City of Portland), which included an interesting report on home burglaries and night-time illumination. Essentially, the report indicated that a nationwide survey of police department records showed that in those cases where a break-in was [...]
Orenco Drives
In today’s Oregonian, Dylan Rivera reports that professor Bruce Podobnik just completed a study gauging social interaction among residents of urban and suburban areas. In his paper, Podobnik reports that a majority (two of three) of residents at Orenco Station, the award-winning neighborhood touted as an ideal of mass-transit oriented New Urbanism, drive personal automobiles [...]
The Daily Environmentalist
The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices is just as valuable today as ever. The value of this book lies in its deceptive simplicity. The authors somehow manage to clearly provide the necessary insight to help anyone get a grasp on their environmental impact, and then make a simple plan for effectively reducing said impact…
Lower heating costs and smaller footprint for 09-10
The US Government Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration projects average household expenditures for space-heating fuels to be $960 this winter (October 1 to March 31), a decrease of $84, or eight percent, from last winter. This forecast principally reflects lower fuel prices combine with slightly milder weather (expected) than last winter. The largest expenditure [...]
Resources for a Low-Car Lifestyle
This post contains prices and links for a variety of utility bikes, accessories and other resources that I discussed during my low-car lifestyle utility cycling clinic. The list includes family and utility cycling products that you can find readily from dealers in Portland, Oregon. Prices and availability updated on May 26, 2009.
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 [...]
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