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Living locally

A warm bikey glow

by Dorea 03.03.2012
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Last weekend, a collection of cargo and family bike folks gathered at our place. Aaron Naparstek, streetsblog founder, is here in Cambridge instead of Brooklyn for the year, and he and I put together the event to contribute to the Revolutions per Minute crowdsourced documentary by Liz Canning. If you haven’t seen the trailer, check [...]

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Unintentional Community

by Dorea 12.13.2011

In the sort of circles we travel in, there is often talk of “intentional community” and it is always considered a good thing. Sometimes “intentional community” is discussed in the context of “co-housing,” where folks own individual homes, but pool resources for common space and intentionally share things like meals, babysitting, and activities more than in [...]

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Schools, Choice, and Living Locally

by Angela 04.17.2011

Recently, Dorea and I completed the school lottery process here in Cambridge and found out that H will be attending our top choice of schools, which is also our closest neighborhood school. We are really excited about this for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is that we will be at a school [...]

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Finding my bike community

by Dorea 07.13.2010
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I began biking in earnest about 14 years ago, at age 18. I was living on my own for the first time in downtown Denver.  I needed to get to work, and I was tired of the bus. On a visit to my parents house one weekend, I saw my childhood bike hanging abandoned in [...]

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Stuff

by Angela 04.09.2010

Last night I had the great fortune of getting to hear some words from Anne Leonard at the Consuming Kids Summit and I got to re-watch the Story of Stuff on a big screen. I hadn’t seen the film in a while and of course it inspired me to reduce my consumption and waste. Leonard [...]

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These are the people in your neighborhood

by Dorea 11.22.2009

It was a beautiful New England fall day yesterday. Lots of folks were out and about in our neighborhood, and by the end of the day, I was reflecting on the riches living locally has brought to our life. We started the day at shabbat services, a 20 minute walk from our place, where we [...]

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Surviving carfree babyhood

by Dorea 02.19.2009

We recently got an interesting comment from Charlotte of Chic Cyclist, on the thread about how we gave up our car. Charlotte writes: “some vestigial teenager in me clings to the ‘option’ of having a car somewhere, just in case. I’m going to have to read about how you handled the early months of H’s [...]

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Finding the Perfect School

by Angela 01.02.2009

Recently, Dorea and I have been worrying about school. We live a little more than a quarter-mile from the Peabody school and plan to send H there in a few years when she starts kindergarten (yes, I know — we worry way too much). We know a number of families in the area who have [...]

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I love the library!

by Angela 08.14.2008

To me the library is just about the greatest place on earth. It’s like going to a Barnes and Noble where everything is free (but unfortunately there’s no Starbucks). I love it even more now that I’m a parent. Here’s some reasons you should love the library too, courtesy of Thrifty Green Thursday at Green [...]

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Surprising Benefits from Being Car Free

by Angela 07.21.2008

One surprising benefit of being car free has been the reduction of choice in our lives. This might seem counter intuitive in a world in which more choices are assumed to make us happier. But making choices takes a lot of time and energy. If we hadn’t been restricted geographically, we would have felt obliged [...]

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