Sustainability
Driving only one vehicle
Tue, 12/14/2010 - 23:56 | 
Jay
While creating our 2011 budget, I engaged in a thought experiment about creative ways to dramatically reduce our costs in order to live within our means and save for our dreams: ditch one car. I'll explain my thinking to provide some insight into how the financial mechanics work.
Total cost of ownership
When looking at the cost of owning a car, there are many costs involved, with an example of monthly costs in parentheses:
Tags: How to buy healthy, sustainable, local beef
Sat, 12/11/2010 - 11:43 | Jay
There is a lot of evidence that grocery store meat may be poorly raised with chemicals and hormones injected and poorly slaughtered. Also the meat is hung only for a short period of time, which does not produce the high quality you get at a famous steakhouse.
Knowing the source of your food at one level is difficult, and we get along find without knowing. So why bother?
Three reasons: