SierraActivist

First of all, happy bike to work day, everyone! DC was pretty ideal for a ride today – although, personally, I think that more or less every day is a great day to bike to work.  ...

Tomorrow, May 17th, is Bike to Work Day in DC! Those of you who registered can meet up at locations around the city to grab a free t-shirt, meet up with other bike commuters, and enjoy ...

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for all of us at Team Spinach, so apologies for the long hiatus.  For my part, travel to some exotic locations (Costa Rica & Nicaragua – ...

It has been a tough few weeks.  Between the Boston Marathon, Texas plant fire, poison-laced letters to a senator and the President, and your average local shenanigans that never make ...

To our Spinach readers and web searchers – Happy Earth Day!  This month is my one-year anniversary with the Spinach blog and I will say it has been a happy one-year relationship. Here ...

Since it’s finally starting to be somewhere closer to spring here in the nation’s capital, I’m back to bike commuting.  It’s always a switch that is not without ...

OK, so it’s spring.  Or, allegedly, it’s spring, even though it snowed today.  EVENTUALLY it will finally get warmer, and that means It’s time to swap out that wardrobe – ...

Do you live in the Washington D.C. area and have an occasion to celebrate?  I have a new recommendation for you. I would like to introduce you to a bar on wheels called the Trolley ...

I’ve just recently joined the world of android users, and I will admit that after three years of living in the dark ages I’ve been going a little bananas downloading apps ...

After reading TheGreenLight’s latest repost about “the grandma who was told to be green”  there was one consistent thread I thought I’d follow up on.  See, a lot of folks ...

#prospective Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The ...

As everyone around Washington, DC is likely aware of by now, “Snowquester” has been and will be a BUST for snow in DC and most of the neighboring counties. I highlighted ...

The system impacting the Washington, DC area is expected to deepen (strengthen) significantly through the rest of the day, with many now calling for accumulations in the range of the ...

This system is proving to be quite the forecasting challenge. As noted in my previous email/forecast, the most significant factor that will determine how much snow the DC metro and ...

I appreciate the recent blog post by the EPA Office of Environmental Justice. First, because it is outgoing Administrator Lisa Jackson’s recap on her top priority while she was at ...