There’s Nothing Like Eating Crow in the Morning
Let me start by saying this is not an apology. When my wife and I sold our 1998 Honda Accord a few years back and bought a small SUV (a RAV4), we contemplated a hybrid, specifically a Ford Escape,...
View ArticleTwo Blocks
New York. There is probably no other city in the U.S. that so personifies and represents America and the American spirit. Yet it is also not like any other city in the country, thus giving visitors and...
View ArticleDispatches from the Bus: The Commute
This dispatch was in part inspired by Megan’s recent post about not using her car. My wife and I are in a slightly different situation. We have two kids and both work full-time. When we had one I...
View ArticleSchools, Food, and Educating for Sustainability
There’s been a fair bit of news lately about the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.” Some want to postpone the implementation of the legislation ostensibly to provide more time to get vendors on...
View ArticleSo Many Ways to Go on Wheels…
At night my wife and I read books to our two kids. We often read the same ones for weeks at a time. Our younger one has been into a Sesame Street book titled, “I Can Do It” that features a section that...
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