This year I did a lot of remote work, but I don't like it nearly as well as in-person teaching. I also have a hard time focusing when I'm at home, but that's probably in part because my whole family has been home, too. I think there are a lot of jobs where telework makes a whole lot of sense, though. Any jobs that are mainly technology based -- like my friends who do coding and website usability. There's no reason for them to have a commute. I feel a lot of guilt about my commute (50 miles each way). My commute is this long because of the two-body problem: my spouse works in a different city than I do. I don't have a solution.

I just attending Robin Wall Kimmerer's lecture in Seattle (on the 21st), and she encourages gratitude towards earthly gifts as a different way of looking at "natural resources." I agree that gratitude helps us feel moral obligation. I think one way we can encourage the sense of gratitude is by talking about it, and teaching our children. If we normalize it to our children and in our social group, then maybe we have a chance of encouraging this sense of gratitude in a higher percentage of the population.

I know my area quite well. I grew up here, and I spent a lot of time walking around my neighborhood with my mom. I didn't get a driver's license until I was almost 19, so I did a lot of walking. There used to be more convenient stores here -- there was a grocery store in my neighborhood when I was growing up, but now it's gone. I like knowing the area and feeling connected to this place, but I also feel like I can't truly claim to be a native here, because I'm not from an indigenous tribe. But my grandparents lived here, and my parents were born here, and I was born here and have returned here as an adult. I try to connect to my place here in the ways that Robin Wall Kimmerer describes -- I'm trying to become naturalized to this area, the way a non-native but non-invasive plant becomes naturalized. I'm trying to become "indigenous to place" as she describes it. I really like that sentiment, and aspire to it, but I'm not sure I understand all of the implications yet.

Options include makings wells if the lack of water is the issue. Perhaps transportation. Maybe donate to charity.

While the logistics may get harder as the population expands we just need to grow the yields more.

It was very easy to say the least. By using public transport or car.

It really is easy to fall down a rabbit hole when on social media. I noticed it was hard to limit my time at first, but now I have other things I can focus on. I have also noticed there really is no need to spend hours on social media. 

I love supporting my local farmers, decreasing the fuel spent and the time food spends traveling from the farm to my table, and eating fresh food in season. As I have spent more time focusing on fresh food in season, I find that my body often craves what's in season. This time of year I'm really into salads, but by fall I'm more into a hearty roasted squash, or baked potato. It seems to work out.

In the producton of the most common types of meat available large amounts of co2 are produced so if less is bought they might have to scale back production.