Category Archives: Live More Lightly Tour

Live More Lightly on WOOLOO

By victoria | Published: July 8, 2009
I have just entered a competition to present my Live More Lightly Workshop in Copenhagen as part of the cultural activities  surrounding the United Nations (UN) Conference for Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark from December 9th to 18th, 2009. Check out my site on WOOLOO Call for Proposals Wooloo.org (Berlin ) Following the great success of Woolo.org’s contemporary art [...]
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Live More Lightly at Vancouver Community College

By victoria | Published: April 24, 2009
Vancouver Community College is having a celebration and I have been invited to present my workshop as part of the activities for students. The theme of the Sustainability Fair, “Green 365 @VCC” fits in perfectly with the idea that we can live more lightly. I will be handing out my sheets with 50 things that “we [...]
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Blu-ray Camcorder Purchased

By victoria | Published: December 9, 2008
After all of my painstaking research I went and bought the new kid on the block, the new Hitachi Blu-ray DZ-BD7H high definition video camera.
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November in the Rain

By victoria | Published: November 12, 2008
Vancouver has settled into the “rainy with cloudy periods” weather pattern that will sustain until the spring. On November 13th my motorcycle insurance expires and the Big Bike goes into the carport for a long nap. Meanwhile, I have engine bars and a carry rack coming from Renntec Motorcycle Accessories and I am still trying [...]
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School Workshop in Powell River

By victoria | Published: October 16, 2008
It rained on the Sunshine coast, then it poured. My trusty motorcycle held the road and responded to my needs. I remembered the good advice I had received long ago from a trucker. “Never out run your lights”. I kept the throttle to a point where I could follow the cat’s eyes shining yellow/orange on [...]
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Air-cooled Bike in a Water-cooled World

By victoria | Published: September 11, 2008
The cooler weather has arrived, but the sun is shining as Vancouver sees the last cloudless days for a while. This weather is the prime season for my motorcycle as I no longer have to worry so much about over-heating my air-cooled engine. In the heat of summer, a traffic jam caused by the [...]
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Electronics Product Stewardship Canada

By victoria | Published: September 1, 2008
The lure of High Definition is keeping me interested in purchasing a camcorder that I can mount on the motorcycle or remove for shooting the places I visit and the people I meet. Lifecycle sustainability is an important factor in my choice and it seems that the major companies are becoming aware of this. I [...]
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Watch the Watcher

By victoria | Published: August 20, 2008
I have been fascinated by the idea that I am being watched by surveillance cameras since they started to become more common in the 1980s. In 1989 I wrote a play that explored a vision of the future. It was rejected for a Canada Council Grant because it was too much like the novel 1984 [...]
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Simon’s Yamaha FJ1200 Enduro Experience

By victoria | Published: August 14, 2008
This summer, more than one dual-sport motorcycle owner has looked at me and my bike with extreme pity and said, “Too bad you can’t ride that bike off the paved road . . . ” They then proceed to tell me about some beautiful alpine meadow or remote hot springs that can only [...]
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Life-Cycle Responsibility

By victoria | Published: August 9, 2008
Time is slipping away so fast with so many details to take care of to realize the Live More Lightly Project. One of the reasons this project is so complex is that I have taken life-cycle responsibility for the product that I am producing. The product in this case is a multi-media book, but [...]
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