Two weekends ago, San Francisco’s migrating street party known as Sunday Streets found itself...
Recent Ruminations
Peopled Streets
Sunday Streets SF: Love me Tenderloin Edition
Liberating Streets: Of bubbles, hobby horses, and tumbling towers
Today Sunday Streets returned to my neighborhood in San Francisco’s Mission District. Sunday...
When Little People Take Over Big Streets
Yesterday was the kickoff to the 2012 Sunday Streets season in San Francisco, an event that creates...
Where the Streets Have No Lanes (OccupyStreet)
Yesterday, Sunday Streets returned to my neighborhood. After making an early stop in May and...
How Hot Soup is Making the Planet Cooler
For the past three months, my daily walk down the street has been seasoned by a small but quite...
Imagine There’s No Cars in the Streets
It isn’t hard to do! This year’s third Sunday Streets, the City of San...
The Bike Reporter
Remembering the victims of a car-eat-bike world
Last Wednesday night I joined about 80 fellow cyclists in a memorial ride to honor seven cyclists...
Biking the Solar Roofs of Southern Germany, to See the Change...
My mom and stepdad live in a small village between Lindau and Wangen in the Allgäu region of South...
Chevron touts big oil profits = past. Cyclists generate people...
Well, there couldn’t be a better symbolism of yesterday’s shareholder meeting at...
Biking the train to the swap meet, or life in a carbon...
About a month ago I got a snapshot of what it might be like to live in a less fossil-fueled and...
You Can Ride Your Bike to Work? Really?? WTF!
Yesterday, as part of National Bike Month, the 17th annual Bike to Work Day was observed and put...
A Bike Ride in Orange
A few weeks ago I went to a presentation entitled Lessons from Amsterdam: How San Francisco Can...
Towards Zero Waste
A Mighty New Recycling Beast at San Francisco’s Pier 96
The chance the Birdie missed (but is still within grasp of a reusable mug)
Bay Area reduces water consumption by up to 40%, civilization does not collapse
California drought: can a few drops in your bucket make a difference?
The dirty truth about life in the digital age
Soil
Turning Waste into Wine: A Pilgrimage to the Composted Land
It is said that Jesus was able to turn water into wine. While such truly miraculous skill to this...
How hard is it to serve a nutritious meal to 5000 people, using...
Well, really not that hard at all. Since the first Feeding the 5000 event was held in London’s...
Eco triptych: Compost giveaway, corporate breakaway, and climate...
Last Saturday was one of those days on the calendar that seems to magically attract all the cool...
The Good Food Revolution Goes Vertical
This is a story about something that is right in this world. It’s a story of inspiration and...
The Seeds They Are A-Changin’
The Matador Travel Network just published my piece about my German ancestral roots in the seed...
GMO OMG WTF are we eating?!?!
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…
Solstice Greetings! It’s been a while since my last dip into the beet spread, so with the sun...
Ten Years a Citizen
Sunday (05/10/15) was my 10 year anniversary as an American citizen. What has it meant? What have I...
Zen Monks to CA Governor Brown: “Don’t even THINK...
I have a sticker in my office that says “Zen Buddhism: Don’t even think about it...
Remembering the victims of a car-eat-bike world
Last Wednesday night I joined about 80 fellow cyclists in a memorial ride to honor seven cyclists...
A solstice message from ancient roots
It is quite puzzling that cultures across much of the northern hemisphere have chosen the season...
The Dark Side of Consumerism: What Landfills and Nursing Homes...
Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects—and to help people in remote Indian villages...