As we entered the quant Fresh Start Diner on Main Street in downtown Oberlin, Ohio, bells jingled as the door shut behind us. “Just sit anywhere” the server said. A quick glance around indicated that “anywhere” may have been a hallway in a former life but was recently transformed into an immaculate eatery with a […]
Advancing Sustainable Transportation. 1.0 Introduction. Part I of this series provided some real data that illustrated how a plug-in hybrid vehicle can indeed reduce our dependence on fossil energy (e.g. oil and coal) – using technology available today. Part I illustrated how it is possible to put together a personal solar PV “system” that allows […]
New Plates 1.0 Introduction. Getting a different car means new license plates. I dislike taking a number and waiting in line at the DMV. Fortunately I remembered to take a good book to read and the new vehicle registration took just over an hour on a Thursday afternoon. Because of the example set by my […]
Transition to sustainable living includes sustainable transportation – the topic of this segment – but first a recap of previous entries. Phase I: Electricity. As you recall in June of last year we decided to become sun farmers and installed solar PV panels to harvest current sunlight and convert the sun’s energy to electrical power […]
Is this an extra day for playing catch-up with our Star, or is this to be a day for setting into motion the quantum leap of consciousness that is needed for a viable planetary future? While we’ve been asleep, corporations and politicians, big banks and Wall Street, have been busy beneath the radar screen. And […]
How fitting to set aside a day each year to give thanks and pay attention to the fruits of the earth; perhaps this is the one lasting legacy of the indigenous people who loved this land. Of course they gave thanks daily to the earth and the water and the sun and the air that […]
Sorry Family and Friends, but we just couldn’t not do this. You probably already guessed what. You know this obsession we have with sustainable living and the application of solar technology to everyday life? That’s right, we just had to carve a solar jack-o-lantern this year. We call this year’s pumpkin “Two Solar Spooks.” It […]
This weekend we visited Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah – an amazing display of Mother Earth normally not visible to us. Because of the unique erosion of this portion of the great Colorado Plateau, the underlying strata called the Pink Cliffs and Grey Cliffs are exposed for all to see. In this region, […]
Well folks, on Aug 29, 2011, we turned off the natural gas line to our home and became another of the growing number of homes around the Planet that are switching to Geothermal Heat Pumps (GHP) for heating and cooling needs. Free (of Fossil Fuel) at Last – at least for our home. Phase II […]