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Eco triptych: Compost giveaway, corporate breakaway, and climate rideaway, in a day around the bay

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Last Saturday was one of those days on the calendar that seems to magically attract all the cool happenings around town. Usually with multiple invitations on the same day you […]

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bicycle, community, consumerism, economy, energy, photo essay, soil
Will Car2Go be the ultimate beneficiary of Zipcar and Avis' collaborative competition?

Sharing for Profit – I’m not Buying it Anymore

February 24, 2013by Sven 6 Comments

Reading about The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy in Forbes Magazine, I get a strange feeling in my belly. There is, on one hand, the automatic delight at seeing […]

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consumerism, economy
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Talking trash with PBS NewsHour

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A few weeks ago my partner-in-muse Deb and I welcomed Spencer Michels and his crew from the PBS NewsHour to our house. To be more specific, to our kitchen. The […]

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cities, consumerism, photo essay, politics, soil
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Biking the train to the swap meet, or life in a carbon-proportionate world

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About a month ago I got a snapshot of what it might be like to live in a less fossil-fueled and growth-driven world. I had been working on an assignment […]

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