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My favorite writings of April 2008 - including ecological budget

Published in May 1st, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, ecological footprint

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A better way of “growing” in a limited world is to increase quality. Make things better fitting, smaller, and more efficient instead of just making them bigger and more powerful. With that in mind, here are the best posts [...]

Food Rationing

Published in April 25th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in ecological footprint, economy

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Food rationing has returned to the US for the first time since World War II. Along with the ongoing bet of which will reach $5/gallon first — gas or milk (I say gas)– this is one of an emerging list of symptoms that the idea of exponential growth of the economy and people on a [...]

Tap water

Published in April 7th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in ecological footprint

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I’m blown away when a person is able to spend more than $20k a year on living expenses. But then I realize that they have little appreciation of the value of money [relative to what the money is spent on]. It’s treated like water and it slips through their fingers. Turn on a pressurized faucet [...]

Saturday Roundup - ecological freelance edition

Published in March 8th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, ecological footprint

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I’m off to another training session for my new job. I’m fairly excited about it because it’s a job that gives an immediate feeling of accomplishment and because of the time-control it offers. Now I discovered that it also offers significant control over our taxes. Woohoo!
In other news, check out this new supposedly green dream [...]

My favorite writings of February 2008

Published in March 2nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, ecological footprint

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It is interesting how valuation is sometimes determined by things other than value. For instance, if a reader agrees with an author the reader will say that the post is well written and vice-a-versa (*). So with that in mind (given that I like myself), here are my favorite posts for February 2008, hmmm [...]

Bicycle commuting

Published in January 4th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Transportation, ecological footprint, fitness

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The past year I have been commuting by bike on most work days. The distance is about 6.2 miles and my odomoter shows 1736 miles for the year. Granted, I have done some recreational riding as well including a half-century, that is 50 miles, on some particularly crazy Saturday, but I doubt that totals more [...]