PAE - Portland

Today is the final day of the Drawdown Challenge so it will be my final daily post (for now) on Women & Educations. I'm wanting to close out my learning process by recapping a couple of key take-aways: 1. Educating girls and women is good for their local communities & the global economy. 2. Educating girls and women & family...

Coffee and Chocolate contribute to deforestation in poor nations.  I've started to research what choices I can make that are sourced ethically.

So odd that I have been working with geothermal options in projects for several years, but I don't understand the details of how it could be more broadly adopted. And how ground source heating and cooling differ from how we value geothermal energy period. I need more study on this!

Stay the course - pick my battles, where I can focus and let others focus on other battles. Be more open to others' ideas and concerns. Have faith that as long as our developed economies can find ways to profit from solving climate challenges we will see behaviors change and products improve. Keep voting with my wallet and then telling the...

Pretty normal to see cyclists on the roads - downtown and outside. But there are some groups who give us all a bad name by just not being smart about courtesy on the roads. And there are WAY TOO MANY cyclists on sidewalks around here! General education about traffic rules, etc. 

Who knew - Portland has a whole pedestrian plan first issued in 1998. Being updated in 2018! See both links for interesting resources and take the Vision Zero Pledge!  https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/72504  https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/40390

Inspiring case studies about the impact of educational access to girls & women around the world. An example from Tara in Nepal: “I heard that staff, from a project called STEM, were in our village to collect information about out-of school girls to help them with their education. I put my name down and was selected to join the Step...

Had not heard this term - but after learning a bit, this is a useful approach way back when settlers, and before them, native people, made the most of resources.

Even without having time to really research this I am eager to understand how this process actually works and what the future holds.

In a study done by Orb Media, plastic fibers were found in 83% of drinking water samples and 93% of bottled water samples tested. https://www.vox.com/2018/4/21/17247994/earth-day-2018-plastic-climate-change