Biking the Environmental Talk, Part 5

Day 26 of Daily Footprint Project. My search for a bike continues. Yesterday, I drove 38 miles to look at an old Murray bike. What I did not know is that some of the older bikes come without brakes. To stop, I am supposed to pedal backward. Not for me, I decided.
Then I got this [...]

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Biking the Environmental Talk, Part 4

Day 25 of Daily Footprint Project. This is the bike I want:

A vintage Schwinn Beach Cruiser, for $140, on Craigslist. Above my initial $100 limit, but for such a beauty, I am willing to bend. The only problem is, it’s in Sacramento. Its owner may come to San Francisco in the near future. That means [...]

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Please Don’t Ask Me to Get a Christmas Tree, You’re Stressing me Out

Barely recovered from the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday mania, I am being asked to step right into Christmas mode. There is no avoiding the ads, the Christmas aisle at the drugstore, the daily mentions of preparations in the paper, and the creeping frenzy that I feel in my surroundings.

Real vs. Fake, Which Tree is Greener?‘ Not [...]

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La Marguerite in Environmental Graffiti (7)

Ever wonder if you can make a difference for a more sustainable world? Read the article I wrote on Lisa Max, in Environmental Graffiti:
 
‘Grandma Dreams up Big Solar Plan in Kitchen‘
 
If you are like Lisa, and have been an agent of sustainable changes in your community, drop me a note. I have this series [...]

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La Marguerite Advocates Sustainable Behavior on Groovy Green

Last week’s Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day, inspired me to write, ‘Finding a Sustainable Middle in a Country of Extremes‘.
Yesterday was Black Friday. Despite all my good intentions, I ended up joining the crowds at the mall. I have gotten much better at taming my consuming urges, to the point where I do not [...]

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Biking the Environmental Talk, Part 3

Day 24 of Daily Footprint Project. After writing the last two articles on ‘Biking the Environmental Talk, Part 1 and Part 2, I felt the pressure to follow through, and to go on Craigslist. It really helps to make one’s commitment official. My green pride was at stake, and I had to take action. After [...]

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Learning From Environmental Footprint Statistics

The Daily Footprint Project has taken me to the micro level of my personal footprint, down to the most minute details. I am only one out of six billion people, however. How do I fit within the larger picture? I wanted to know. I found this world map of environmental footprint on the Footprint [...]

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Biking the Environmental Talk, Part 2

Day 23 of Daily Footprint Project. I was to go through Craigslist to find a used bike. Instead my day got eaten up by greater priorities:

Going to the Farmers’ Market with Charlotte who is visiting from Berkeley
Taking Little Sister shopping for clothes at Target, and going swimming with her
Answering emails and commenting on other blogs
Cleaning [...]

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Biking the Environmental Talk

Day 22 of Daily Footprint Project. The numbers about the top three contributors to greenhouse gases emissions have left a permanent imprint in my brain cells. And are fueling my determination to get a bike.
Big step today. I visited the bike shop down the street, in search of a used bike. I refuse to [...]

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It’s Black Friday And I Am Just a Green Girl Wannabe

Day 21 0f Daily Footprint Project. Yesterday, I wrote an article on, ‘Thanksgiving, a Time to Shop or to Lighten Our Environmental Footprint‘, where I emphatically pronounced my disgust for all shopping conducted under the guise of Black Friday. I held my promise. Did not buy a thing. For myself. Catherine asked if I [...]

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