what’s your Walk Score?

Yesterday I wrote about the qualitative benefits of living in a place with high walkability.  Now I can put a number to it: 91.
That’s my Walk Score, calculated at www.walkscore.com.
It’s a tool for the real estate industry, which calculates things near an address, like stores and schools, etc.  I don’t know if it takes into account public [...]

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walkability

I feel so lucky because I live in a place where I can walk to the majority of my everyday needs.  Within a 20-minute walk — approximately a mile’s distance — I can go to the public library (a few branches), meet my friends for tea at any number of local (non-national chain) cafes, buy organic [...]

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plastic containers: Reuse

This seems like a no brainer, but that’s often the nature of everyday sustainable, isn’t it?
Take-out and doggie bags are a reality in my life.  However, just like the commercials for V8 vegetable juice where the person slaps herself on her forehead and exclaims, “I should have had a V8!”, there’s many a time my [...]

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