tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81787902011-04-21T16:29:10.272-07:00davidfromozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584920114012153504noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178790.post-57197463673957215442008-06-18T04:54:00.001-07:002008-06-18T04:55:33.790-07:00I've stopped posting to this blog and moved everything over to the <a href="http://fromoz.com">fromoz blog</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8178790-5719746367395721544?l=davidfromoz.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>davidfromozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584920114012153504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178790.post-36123792045481461372007-10-15T04:18:00.000-07:002007-10-16T04:23:22.038-07:00So this year I decided to try to be a lot more environmentally responsible. Here is an update on what we did and how it worked out.<br /><br /><h2>Living</h2><br />Coming to Japan we chose countryside living over city living. (thats probably not better!) We live in a small house. Importantly, its a very short drive to work and we can walk to shops and restaurants. Its a longish walk to the station.<br /><br /><h2>Car</h2><br />We bought a nice small car. Its a Nissan Tiida (Versa in USA). We got the smallest engine. I have not fixed my bicycle. This is one of my big failings on the environmental plan.<br /><br /><h2>Travel</h2><br />We decided against a trip to Australia for New Year instead choosing Taiwan. And we haven't done any international recreational travel since.<br /><br /><h2>Work</h2><br />I have tried hard to reduce business travel too. This is tricky because I don't want to be ineffective at work. If I am then our competitor who does continue to travel will just take our business and the travel will be done by somebody else. I want to start to leverage remote meeting technology and video conferences more and early in projects. I used my FTP server to distribute test software so I didn't have to ship it.<br /><br /><h2>Consumption</h2><br />We eat locally. Tochigi has great local fruits and vegetables especially. And we eat it a lot. Our weakness here is wine. We drink a lot of imported wine!<br /><br />Overall, I feel pretty good about our efforts. The one area I really need to improve is business travel. But as I said, I don't want to be inefficient in this because I run the risk of just transferring the travel to somebody else.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8178790-3612379204548146137?l=davidfromoz.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>davidfromozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584920114012153504noreply@blogger.com2