Jim Miller, Author at Bluedot Living

Ed Begley Jr.’s Hidden Gems

Jim Miller — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:11:02 +0000

Actor and environmental activist, Ed Begley Jr., shares the green secrets of his LEED Platinum certified home.

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Growing Green in the Deep Blue

Jim Miller — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 22:45:59 +0000

Leslie Booher met her husband and business partner Torre Polizzi while studying marine biology at Humboldt State University. Together, they witnessed the near-total collapse of the kelp forest in Humboldt Bay, and wondered what they could do about it. They knew seaweed could be farmed for habitat restoration, food, animal feed, fertilizer, and to clean […]

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Ten Tips for Greener Holidays

Jim Miller — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 02:23:44 +0000

This article includes affiliate links. If you purchase a product through one of our links, we may earn a commission, essentially a small digital finder’s fee. These commissions help us fund the valuable journalism that you see on Bluedot. Thank you for supporting us! December brings us the gifts of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and many […]

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Ed Begley Jr.’s Tesla Model S

Jim Miller — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:02:15 +0000

The actor, environmental advocate, and EV enthusiast takes us for a spin in his cross-country car, and on a journey through EVs in his past.

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Designing Public Spaces With Nature in Mind

Jim Miller — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:06:32 +0000

The environment is not limited to woods and mountains and wilderness. Most of us spend a small fraction of our lives in “nature,” and the vast majority in cities and towns — the “built environment.” The built environment is how most people interact with (and impact) the environment every day. And the best landscape architects […]

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One Cyclist’s Struggle Up Haleakala

Jim Miller — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:44:30 +0000

“What’s the temperature,” I asked Nicki, as the rain pounding on the car roof got louder. I was starting to feel chilly, so I figured it had dipped into the fifties from about seventy a couple hours earlier. She glanced at the instrument panel: “Forty-one.” Okay then. She helped me on with my flimsy plastic […]

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Good Libations: Tasting Green in the Heart of Napa

Jim Miller — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:20:42 +0000

From the bright, warm sunshine, we enter the historic winery building at Trefethen and are hit with the deep scent of the redwood used for its siding. Built in 1886 and now on the National Register of Historic Places, it was abandoned for decades before Eugene and Catherine Trefethen purchased the property in 1968. It […]

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The Sustainable Cyclist

Jim Miller — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:14:05 +0000

When I was asked to do a story on being a “sustainable cyclist,” my first thought was, “Ride a bike. That’s it. Boom. You’re sustainable.” But maybe it is a little more complicated. First, to be more sustainable than a car, you have to replace car trips with a bike. If you’re commuting by bike, […]

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Cruising: The Aptera Solar-Powered Vehicle

Jim Miller — Tue, 09 May 2023 16:09:30 +0000

One of the irritating things about being an environmentalist is that it’s generally not … cool. You know. Especially for transportation, it’s about using public transit or a bike or driving a Prius. Maybe Tesla was a little cool before Elon Musk morphed into a Bond villain, but aside from that, the cool factor in […]

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Let’s Bust Some Myths: Transportation and Housing

Jim Miller — Tue, 02 May 2023 15:05:00 +0000

What initially attracted me to economics was how intuitive it seemed — what people call “common sense.” If the price of something goes up, people buy less of it. In environmental economics, pollution has costs, and businesses should have to account for those costs. Easy to grasp, if not always politically appealing. In regional planning, […]

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