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 Music festivals are like buffets: A chance to try everything and you feel kind of dirty when it’s done.
With a younger and more progressive leaning audience, most music festivals strive to lessen the C02 footprint. No easy task when you consider the insurmountable waste - not every recyclable is recycled, porta pottys, etc.- and travel which is like a medieval gypsy pilgrimage. Bonnaroo - the annual festival responsible for striking a balance between indie-rock and jamnation with legendary performances - is no different but now they’re offering something completely different: A climate change compilation.
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 So how does Spokane commute?
Several years ago, the National Transportation Policy project said walkers account for 8.5 percent of trips locally and bicycles are used in 0.8 percent of trips. That compares with a rate of 1.4 r for bicycle use in other cities. (About one-third of Americans and 30 percent of Washingtonians do not drive at all.) The big shocker: Vehicles are still used 85 percent of the time in Spokane. The study concluded Spokane’s surface transportation system has not kept pace with the growth the area has experienced in the past several decades and the lower participation rates for pedestrians and mainly bicycles indicated an opportunity to obtain a significant shift from vehicle to non-motorized models.
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 If you’re looking for vintage items and designer brands at a great price, MYEXCLOSET.COM is a perfect web store that sells pre-owned items in terrific condition. Their idea is to “end the era of disposable clothing” and give clothing owners the satisfaction that their preloved clothes will find a new loving owner, while regaining a portion of what they have paid.
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 I seem to have found inspiration to continue blogging this week - in the person of Dr. Hermann Scheer. He echoes the conviction of many, that solar energy is the "It" technology solution to our energy needs globally - that and wind power. I began blogging about solar energy in a bit of a bubble, in that I didn't know much about what was going on globally but knew we needed to be shifting to solar energy if we were to create a safer world. No Nuclear (not remotely sustainable) or Natural gas (mostly methane-which is worse than CO2) - but SOLAR.
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 Discovery and the BBC’s new series, “Life” is knock-your-socks off fantastic. Seven years in the making, the all-animal cast performs feats of daring, acts of subterfuge, and engages in fantastical flirting, all captured with crazy high-def cameras that had a lifelong devotee of nature programs like myself practically gasping out loud at the NYC premiere event last week. I’m talking totally amazing cinematography and painstakingly-procured shots (one of which- an English forest scene only a minute long – was two years in the making!) of animals and plants doing what we love to watch them do.
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