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I recently received an email from the political action group, MoveOn.org about a new campaign entitled “Stop Price Gouging.” Their original goal was to collect 350,000 signatures, they are now approaching 500,000. I have also received a few local circulating emails, about the need to increase the gas tax. Even with record prices, we are still increasing our demand for fuel. Peak oilers are saying

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The second week of May, the kids and I were invited to go Root Digging with the Spokane Indians outside of Harrington, WA. We arrived slightly late and proceeded to get lost the last 1/2 mile, but eventually found the group of students from Wellpinit looking for Camas Root.We didn't bring a digging stick or a bag, but borrowed some, were shown which plants to look for and we were off. The area

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The City Repair Project in Portland is hosting a Village Building Convergence from May 18-27. If you aren't familiar with Mark Lakemand the City Repair, check out his website below. They are doing amazing grassroots community-building work there. The Convergence is a hands-n event that runs throughout the city. Citizens, participants, etc. will build over 30 ecological gathering places throughout

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The kids and I recently visited Seattle for their Spring Break. We stayed with friends on Capital Hill and I was reminded how much I love density. Their house is located just around the corner from Volunteer Park with a great playground, greenhouse and museum, and just blocks away from a convenient bus connection, great restaurants, grocery stores, bookstores, garden shops, and yoga studios. The

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I was across town last Thursday and decided to do some grocery shopping to kill some time, so I hit that neighborhood’s supermarket. It’s an Albertson’s, a fairly new and fancy one, a real shrine to all that is pre-packaged, ready to eat or quick to prepare. I don’t usually like shopping in these stores but it was there and we were low on some essentials.It’s the old story for me again – I have

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It’s been ages, once again, since I wrote for this site. I am in the process of finding a group of amazing sustainable Spokane women to share more frequent entries with me. But in the meantime, some quick updates. The co-housing (loose-knit intentional community) is gathering steam. The PUD was approved by the City a few weeks ago and anyone interested in more information can email me at juliet@

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It has been weeks since I have written for this blog. The form that my life has taken these past few months has been in a constant state of flux and completely unsustainable. I have often found humor in the fact that I espouse a sustainable lifestyle but on many levels fail to live up to it. Right now, I am in the process of balancing my life, setting more boundaries for myself and finishing up

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Below is a link to a group of articles in Pacific Northwest Magazine for the Seattle Times entitled "Going Green" about green construction in Seattle. I know a lot of architects in Seattle and every time I visit I am surprised how few of them have embraced sustainable issues in their work, and most of the primary design firms are giving only a cursory nod to the movement. I think these articles

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My mom got a call from pollster the other day about implementing tolls in Washington State–a fantastic idea. London implemented tolls on traffic in the core of the city during peak hours and cut congestion by 30 percent, emissions by 12 percent and increased revenue by $350 million. For more information on London and a study that San Francisco is about to undertake regarding tolls go to the link

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Steve Dallas’ Son: “Opus, Pickles and I are having the definitive scientific/religious debate of humanity: The Stars. The Cosmos. Hummingbirds. Espresso. Bonnie Raitt. The Universe! The Whole Enchilada!...”Pickles: “When will it end?”SDS: “In billions of years!!”Pickles: “No!! Any day now!!- Excerpted from “Opus,” by Berkeley BreathedLately, a friend of mine has been accusing me of being

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We are still moving forward with the cohousing project. Just when I keep thinking that there are too many complications, too fast a schedule, unwilling property owners—the process takes a turn for the best and keeps going. For a few weeks we were moving frantically ahead trying to develop a set of numbers to see if the project was even feasible, cost-wise. I toured a “Rastra-house” (Rastra is a

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The first link below proposes a smart but somewhat involved national rideshare program to get cars off the road, not necessarily people. The second link is to an article in Out There that I wrote about car cooperatives. Both tackle an engrained mind-set—that we need to have access to our cars at all times during the day to drive to wherever we want to go. This is going to be changing whether we

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Last year about this time a group of around 4 to 5 families, including mine, started seriously pursuing the idea of urban co-housing. All of us wanted to stay near the city center and all of us loved the idea of shared resources, shared childcare and shared yard work. We spent a few months looking for a potential site, visited with a few owners, but nothing seemed to pan out. This past month a 65

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Hopedance has an entire issue devoted to energy issues (www.hopedance.org). Below are a couple of links to articles I enjoyed.Interview with Tom Hodgekinson, author of How to be Idle. He discusses how with the addition of free time, you can become more involved with issues at the local level. I loved his mention of the Guild systems of medieval Europe as a model for organizing labor in a sane

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Healthy community is my “thing.” I have been interested in how to build them since I started architecture school in the late 80s. After studying in Florence, Italy, the answer seemed to lie in the city. I love the city and I love living in the middle of it. In Florence (population similar to Spokane’s) you don’t need a car or even a scooter—you can walk the entire length of it in about 30 minutes

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I recently returned from a visit to Palm Springs. I stayed in a 3,500 square foot house, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths and 10 televisions. Homes this size and larger are the norm in the Palm Springs area, and they are becoming increasingly filled with more and more stuff, bigger televisions, larger refrigerators, multiple home computers and “outdoor kitchens.” For most people living there, notions such as

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Editors of Spokesman-Review:On behalf of the Spokane Chapter of Architects, Designers & Planners for Social Responsibility, I strongly urge the City Council to take any steps necessary to ensure the wise reuse of the historic Rookery Block.The Rookery Block occupies a significant site regarding the future potential of downtown Spokane. Replacing these historic structures with a surface parking

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Bottom-up Community based economy. Link below discusses Irish Economist Richard Douthwaite's theory. Focuses on four aspects of community building:1) Local Currency; 2) Local Credit Union that invests money in the local economy from money within the local community; 3) Local Renewable Energy Co-ops; and 4) Community-based organic agriculture. Lots of links within the article.http://

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The Community Solution, a program devoted to the development and enhancement of small local communities has outlined their vision of "Ecotopia" called Agraria--a low-energy use small, sustainable community. Discusses everything from home specifications and development strategies to sustainable occupations. And a great quote at the top from Wendell Berry.http://www.communitysolution.org/

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A great graphic slideshow/overview on the Peak Oil debate. From a presentation given to Central Area Planners for Vancouver, BC. (September 2005) by Bryn Davidson, Rao-D cityworks.http://www.flickr.com/photos/46409605@N00/sets/1192840/show/

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After a two weeks of listening to peak oil presentations from Matthew Simmons, Roger Bezdek and James Howard Kunstler, today’s “River Clean-Up” at Highbridge Park was a welcome reprieve from the forecasted doom and gloom on the horizon. Thank god for community events.Seeing the 500 + citizens from Spokane turn out on a gorgeous fall day to pick up trash along the Spokane River was incredible.

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This is a great article about the future of cities and San Francisco in particular in the face of Peak Oil. Discusses Richard Register and his work with EcoCity Builders. From the San Francisco Chronicle.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/02/INGSHEVEM91.DTL

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I am in love with Governor Christine Gregoire. Wow. (I haven’t felt this way about another woman since I saw Kim Deal play with the Pixies a couple of years ago at the Big Easy). Governor Gregoire opened the “Global Oil Depletion” Summit at the Davenport Hotel on October 4th and was fantastic.She was enigmatic, intelligent, upbeat and she knew a lot about renewable energy. In fact, she wants to

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Local food, local energy, local water, local money. Tonight I listened to a download of Dr. Jason Bradford of Willits, California organizer of Willits Economic Localization (WELL) Program. Bradford began by hosting free public screenings of The End of Suburbia about a year ago. The screenings grew to a size that became unmanageable for one person and at that time, more citizens became involved.

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Last weekend my family and I went to the Northwest Renewable Energy Festival in Walla Walla, Washington. I have not been to Walla Walla in years. My only memory is when my uncle used to work there for the State Penitentiary. We left far too late; after a soccer game, discussions with the siding contractors working on our house, and a last minute request by my mother-in-law (whom I love dearly) to

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The other day I was talking with a friend about the difference between optimism and hope. The optimist, we discussed, believes that everything is fine and will continue to be fine. A hopeful individual, on the other hand, accepts when life is not good, but recognizes that through change life can expand, and hopefully, move into something richer—a more fulfilling way of being. Change is not

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