Composting is easier than taking out the garbage once a week.
I'm not very good at remembering to take out the garbage or the recycling on the proper nights. Thankfully, it's not really a problem when I forget to put the garbage out because our garbage can is rarely ever full. Today, for example, it's still not touching the brim, and
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Apr 5, 10
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Front yard vegetable gardening
When I lived in Germantown, I learned everything I could about gardening. I thought I was a natural because everything I planted sprouted like crazy. Even things I didn't plant grew there, so I figured I must have some magic touch. Of course, then one day I read that the
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Mar 31, 10
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Day 176 of My Car-Free Experiment – Time For Car-Free Happy Hour
Today's picture: Save the date and leave your keys at home. Next Tuesday is your chance to join the active transportation movement at Louisville's monthly Car-Free Happy Hour. You'll see posters like this one popping up all over town. Louisville's monthly Car Free Happy Hour started last fall. It's
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Mar 9, 10
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Day 174 of My Car-Free Experiment – You Get a Charge Out of This
Today's picture: Electric bikes. They're not in Louisville shops yet, but plan on seeing them soon. The Yike Bike folds to carry on a bus or train. It requires no effort. But isn't that kind of defeating the point? Electric bikes and electric-assist bikes are taking off in Europe. I'm
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Mar 7, 10
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15,000 Farmers Can't Be Wrong
When it comes to Earth Day and Arbor Day, a lot of people talk the talk, but how many really walk the walk? I've always felt that for all the unduly-placed guilt on the average consumer to "reduce their carbon footprint", the best solution to do one's tiny part to
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Mar 31, 10
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Day 188 of My Car-Free Experiment – Time to Plan Earth Day!
Today's picture: We're just a month away from Earth Day, April 22. This will be the 40th anniversary of a day set aside for the hardest working planet in our solar system. This button is my souvenir from the first Earth Day, way back in 1970. I was just a
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Mar 22, 10
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Day 200 of My Car Free Experiment - Bikes Add To Easter Parade
Today's picture gallery: On Saturday morning my neighborhood's main drag became a lovely spring promenade, with a long stream of slow-moving vehicles. Residents from far and wide jammed the sidewalks in front of Heine Brothers Coffee to enjoy the Frankfort Avenue Easter Parade! Motorized parade floa
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Apr 4, 10
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Call for Cyclists: Human-powered Moving Party!
Get free coffee and snacks, and have fun putting your bicycle to good work! Bicycling For Louisville, the local bike advocacy non-profit, is moving its office from downtown to the much more pedal-friendly Clifton and they need your help. They're organizing a human-powered move from their old office
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Feb 12, 10
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Getting a Food Education
The economic impact of our buying behavior gives us a widely understood, clear and strong voice in determining the food landscape of our communities. Beyond little doubt there is, and has been for some time now, a progressive movement in Louisville towards a more sustainable food network. There are
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Mar 27, 10
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Does anyone out there still use the phone book?
There is a phone book sitting on my porch. It's bee there for several days now. I don't want it in my house because, although I do not yet have the hovercar or the jetpack, I do have Google (and an old Yellow Pages should the power go out). The
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Mar 29, 10
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Day 146 of My Car-Free Experiment – Two Roads Diverged in a wood
Today's picture: It started out as a sweet mountain bike ride downtown in the snow. But instead of taking my usual bike route, I took the road more traveled – and that made all the difference. I should have listened to Robert Frost this morning when I ventured out in
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Feb 9, 10
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Day 157 of My Car-Free Experiment – 'Other Side' of the Tracks
Today's picture: It's another video – a really important one for anyone who rides a bike. You see, most cities aren't yet up to speed, so to speak, with making streets safe for bicycles. My cycling pals Tom Armstrong and Dave Morse sent me this from STREETFILMS: CAUTION! If you
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Feb 20, 10
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Day 151 of My Car-Free Experiment – Bike Move Hauls Whole Office
Today's picture: This post includes a photo essay on Flickr with 235 images of people on bikes hauling furniture and office equipment and supplies. Bicycling For Louisville invited volunteers to help move their office from South Second St., downtown, to Frankfort Ave. in Clifton. About 20 cyclists s
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Feb 14, 10
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Day 143 of My Car-Free Experiment – And a Friend Goes 'Car-Lite'
Today's picture: It's "Car-Free Happy Hour." If you enjoy leaving your car keys at home – even if only occasionally – join walkers, TARC riders, and bicyclists who take the road less traveled, too. This month it's Tuesday, Feb. 16, at The Bodega on E. Market St. My friend Dominic
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Feb 6, 10
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Day 160 of My Car-Free Experiment – It's Travel Well Orchestrated
Today's picture: He's our invisible bicyclist, Matt Milewski, 33, a violinist in The Louisville Orchestra. I met Matt at a traffic signal on Main Street back on Feb. 3, when we were both in a hurry to get to work. If you're headed downtown in the morning, watch out for
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Feb 22, 10
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Day 139 Car-Free: Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.
Today's Picture: It's in motion. A nifty little YouTube film clip my son Adam sent to me. You'll hear Steve Jobs compare computers and bicycles. Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." When Steve Jobs, one of the most innovative minds in the computer world today says,
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Feb 1, 10
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Day 152 of My Car-Free Experiment – Pushing The Envelope Is Risky
Today's picture: That's me on the right. I was eight years old when I received a Steve Canyon Fighter Jet and Helmet for Christmas in 1959.
On Christmas Day, 1959, my two sisters received look-alike dresses, white faux-fur hats for Sundays, and dolls – all the very latest stuff, to be sure.
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Feb 16, 10
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Goodbye Possibility City...
[from Tonya] My husband and I really thought this was a Possibility City when we moved here in 2005. We lived in the cheap, extremely polluted, neighborhood called Rubbertown while we worked on updating our work experience, education, and fixing our finances. We met some great people and had fun
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Mar 19, 10
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Green vs germs?
I have, for a while, seen commercials comparing the benefits of using reusable sponges vs paper towels. That sponges can be used over and over, and therefore more environmentally friendly. Yes, I am aware that every commercial is biased towards the advertiser's product. But it does seem logical to m
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Jun 13, 10
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