Just found out about a cross-country sustainability bicycle tour underway called Changing Gears. Melissa Henige and Andy Davis will document their trip online, as a movie, and as a book. They will be looking for ways that people in the U.S. are incorporating sustainability into their lives, and interviewing interesting people as they go. From their home in Bloomington, Indiana they will travel all the way to California. Check out their blog here.
Photo Credit: Andy Davis
Today was the first day of the Oak Park Farmers Market, and we celebrated by buying early turnips, spinach, kale, and green onions. The asparagus was also beautiful. We ran into a friend, Bernell Loeb, who has put her wonderful art online, take a look. We ran into other friends, which is the best part of the Farmers Market, after all.
GreenSource has a short interview with William McDonough, the author of Cradle to Cradle and we (along with thirty other people) are going to have dinner with him tomorrow night right here in Oak Park, IL, where McDonough will keynote the Greentown Conference. That's a lot of links for one sentence, and that's what will happen to you if you start reading McDonough and following his activities -- you'll start making links between how we consume things and how they are designed. It seems fitting that McDonough, an architect, will be speaking here in Oak Park, the site of the first studio of that other architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. And maybe it says that we are just a little over-immersed in this stuff when I confess that this dinner is my husband's 55th birthday present.
A good way to get an introduction to McDonough is through TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. This annual conference hosts the world's most fascinating people and charges them with using 18 minutes to give "the talk of their lives" -- then it shares the talks free on the web via the Creative Commons licensing agreement.
Comfortable, quick (three hours non-stop from Indianapolis to Chicago), and ONLY $22.00, the Megabus is steadily expanding its network in the U.S. after hopping the ocean from the U.K. Since last fall this no-frills company (that's how they keep the prices so low) has finally installed a sign identifying WHERE the bust stop is! Oh, joy! But the buses are the real thing, comfy and clean, and it so nice to be able to read a book or sleep instead of nodding off to the sound of the droning highway as we drive....
Comfortable, quick (three hours non-stop from Indianapolis to Chicago), and ONLY $22.00, the Megabus is steadily expanding its network in the U.S. after hopping the ocean from the U.K. Since last fall this no-frills company (that's how they keep the prices so low) has finally installed a sign identifying WHERE the bust stop is! Oh, joy! But the buses are the real thing, comfy and clean, and it so nice to be able to read a book or sleep instead of nodding off to the sound of the droning highway as we drive....
