CynthiaParkhill

School is out this week, in observance of Thanksgiving, but I want to reinforce “Walk and Roll” each Wednesday at Santa Rosa Charter Scho...

In the spirit of reducing our carbon footprint, of enhancing personal wellness and honoring the interdependent web of life, I’m asking co...

My latest “Suggest a Title” recommendation to my public library concerns Bikenomics, How Bicycling Can Save the Economy by Elly Blue (Mic...

I subscribe to various email lists related to library services to children, and in response to requests for recommendations on two very di...

My latest delivery of sewn bills and crowns for Hat People in southern Oregon was a trip that saw me taking a table-top ironing board home...

“This librarian travels by bicycle and bus.” I’ve started a new blog to officially house my writings about auto-dependence alternatives. It...

Bridge along the Bear Creek Greenway north of Ashland Jonathan and I rode our bikes up the Bear Creek Greenway on Saturday, from Ashlan...

From the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (citing a 2009 National Household Travel Survey), come a variety of statistics about U.S...

In an online discussion of videos about interviewing techniques, a classmate raised the point that an assumption by the producers that appli...

In Crunch by Leslie Connor (Katherine Tegan Books, 2010) a family’s bicycle repair business is the only thing keeping people on the road ...

For the past three weeks, my daily commute on Lake Transit has offered me an occasion to read Straphanger by Taras Grescoe (Times Books,...

Cost of travel for transit-proximate and car-dependant households Source of data: Taras Grescoe, citing Brookings Institute study From ...

Jonathan spent this past weekend at the Kate Wolf Festival , where he worked in our friend Evan’s clothing booth. The festival takes place e...

Screen capture: Voting break-down from Mother Earth News poll results An email from Utne Reader this week invited me to take a “green ve...

Among the messages on an e-mail group I subscribe to, were the instructions not to buy gas on April 15. The timing was ironic because I had ...

The car has been out of commission this week. Something is wrong with the struts and we've been afraid to drive it. For $15 I got a week...

The rutted dirt driveway seemed to go on forever and we shifted uncomfortably on our hay-bale seats as a man on a tractor pulled the makeshi...

Good luck turning left if you’re driving south on Calistoga Street through Middletown during the evening commute. You can wait an awfully lo...