Port Townsend, Washington
Sustainable Ferries? Instead of the taking the long route I had planned through Tacoma and Olympia to get to Port Townsend, I decided to take [...]
Seattle, Washington
RMI, SeaTac and SkyNRG partner on Sustainable Aviation Fuels Although eliminated from the Kyoto and Paris Climate Accords, the aviation sector is one of [...]
Whidbey Island, Washington
The Last Straw On Thursday evening, July 19, Neo and I were sitting with friend David Monahan in a seemingly idyllic location—Dave’s “cabin” (more like [...]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Named Roads: The Sea-to-Sky Highway The City of New Orleans, a folk song written by Steve Goodman and popularized by Arlo Guthrie in 1972 introduced [...]
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Range Anxiety Revisited If you have been following my pre-trip posts since Earth Day, you might remember my post, “Range Anxiety?” where I described the [...]
Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada – Day 2
Red Trees On the last leg of the Icefields Parkway, descending from the Columbia Icefield Discovery Center, I began to notice that intermittent trees in [...]
Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
Icefields Parkway According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), only 2.8 % of all the water on Earth is fresh water and glacier ice [...]
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada – Day 2
Off-The-Road Carbon Reduction Reducing greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is the holy grail of addressing climate change. We absolutely must reduce our carbon to [...]
Glacier National Park, Montana
Going-to-the-Sun The Going-to-the-Sun Road through Glacier National Park is among the most beautiful drives in the world. Open fully only in summer, the 50-mile [...]
Whitefish, Montana
One Soul in the Tree Our drive to Whitefish, Montana, from Canyon Village, Wyoming, a 466-mile diagonal endeavor through eastern Montana, was broken up [...]