Street Life Sunday Streets SF: Love me Tenderloin Edition August 31, 2013 Two weekends ago, San Francisco’s migrating street party known as Sunday Streets found itself...
Community • Street Life Liberating Streets: Of bubbles, hobby horses, and tumbling towers June 3, 2012 Today Sunday Streets returned to my neighborhood in San Francisco’s Mission District. Sunday...
Street Life When Little People Take Over Big Streets March 12, 2012 Yesterday was the kickoff to the 2012 Sunday Streets season in San Francisco, an event that creates...
Street Life Where the Streets Have No Lanes (OccupyStreet) October 24, 2011 Yesterday, Sunday Streets returned to my neighborhood. After making an early stop in May and...
Food & Farm • Inspiration • Street Life How Hot Soup is Making the Planet Cooler June 7, 2011 For the past three months, my daily walk down the street has been seasoned by a small but quite...
Bikes • Street Life Imagine There’s No Cars in the Streets May 10, 2011 It isn’t hard to do! This year’s third Sunday Streets, the City of San...
Bike Reporter • Soul Remembering the victims of a car-eat-bike world May 26, 2014 Last Wednesday night I joined about 80 fellow cyclists in a memorial ride to honor seven cyclists...
Bike Reporter • Energy • Travel Biking the Solar Roofs of Southern Germany, to See the Change... September 12, 2013 My mom and stepdad live in a small village between Lindau and Wangen in the Allgäu region of South...
Activism • Bike Reporter Chevron touts big oil profits = past. Cyclists generate people... May 30, 2013 Well, there couldn’t be a better symbolism of yesterday’s shareholder meeting at...
Bike Reporter • Community Biking the train to the swap meet, or life in a carbon... January 16, 2013 About a month ago I got a snapshot of what it might be like to live in a less fossil-fueled and...
Bike Reporter You Can Ride Your Bike to Work? Really?? WTF! May 13, 2011 Yesterday, as part of National Bike Month, the 17th annual Bike to Work Day was observed and put...
Bike Reporter A Bike Ride in Orange May 6, 2011 A few weeks ago I went to a presentation entitled Lessons from Amsterdam: How San Francisco Can...
Resources • Soil Turning Waste into Wine: A Pilgrimage to the Composted Land January 22, 2015 It is said that Jesus was able to turn water into wine. While such truly miraculous skill to this...
Food & Farm • Soil How hard is it to serve a nutritious meal to 5000 people, using... October 14, 2014 Well, really not that hard at all. Since the first Feeding the 5000 event was held in London’s...
Energy • Soil Eco triptych: Compost giveaway, corporate breakaway, and climate... April 9, 2013 Last Saturday was one of those days on the calendar that seems to magically attract all the cool...
Food & Farm • Soil The Good Food Revolution Goes Vertical March 6, 2013 This is a story about something that is right in this world. It’s a story of inspiration and...
Soil • Travel The Seeds They Are A-Changin’ January 10, 2013 The Matador Travel Network just published my piece about my German ancestral roots in the seed...
Food & Farm • Justice • Soil GMO OMG WTF are we eating?!?! October 26, 2012 So there’s a proposition — Proposition 37 — on the ballot in California that would make the...
Soul The Winter Beet: Why I’m still an optimist… December 21, 2015 Solstice Greetings! It’s been a while since my last dip into the beet spread, so with the sun...
Inspiration Ten Years a Citizen May 12, 2015 Sunday (05/10/15) was my 10 year anniversary as an American citizen. What has it meant? What have I...
Activism • Soul Zen Monks to CA Governor Brown: “Don’t even THINK... February 7, 2015 I have a sticker in my office that says “Zen Buddhism: Don’t even think about it...
Bike Reporter • Soul Remembering the victims of a car-eat-bike world May 26, 2014 Last Wednesday night I joined about 80 fellow cyclists in a memorial ride to honor seven cyclists...
Soul A solstice message from ancient roots December 22, 2013 It is quite puzzling that cultures across much of the northern hemisphere have chosen the season...
Consumerism • Inspiration The Dark Side of Consumerism: What Landfills and Nursing Homes... October 30, 2013 Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects—and to help people in remote Indian villages...