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“the first Airstream to roll off the assembly line, in 1936, was called the Clipper and was modeled on a design created by Hawley Bowlus, designer of Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. An”
― The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
― The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
“Go seasonal, avoiding hothouses and air freight. Local, seasonal produce is best of all, but shipping is fine. As a guide, if something has a short shelf life and isn’t in season where you live, it will probably have had to go in a hothouse or on a plane. In the U.K., Canada, and more northern parts of the U.S., in January, examples are lettuce, asparagus, tomatoes, strawberries, and most cut flowers. Apples, oranges, and bananas, by contrast, almost always go on boats. Adopting this tip religiously can probably deliver a 10 percent savings on a typical diet.”
― How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
― How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
“Plastic is environmentally nasty as either landfill or litter because it hangs around for so long. However, it is typically not quite as energy intensive to produce as card packaging and has the advantage, from a purely carbon perspective, that when you put it in landfill, you are just sending those hydrocarbons back into the ground where they came from for long-term storage. In”
― How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
― How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
“I had only one hard-and-fast rule: avoid interstates. They are predictable and boring, and their uniformity somehow erases changes in landscape; you can drive six hundred miles, from forests into desert, and feel that you haven’t gone anywhere. In a sense, you haven’t. You have no idea about the lives of the people in the towns and cities you’ve bypassed at seventy miles an hour. *”
― The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
― The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
“The total distance—11,741 miles—gave me sticker shock. Round it up to twelve thousand. Almost halfway around the world! It seemed slightly mad, but then it might do me good. To make such an epic road trip, discovering places I’d never been, rediscovering others, never knowing what I’d find beyond the next curve or hill, would be to recapture the enchantment of youth, a sense of promise and possibility. The cicada chirped incessantly in my head. I clicked back to the first map. Looking at it brought on a mixture of eagerness and reluctance. The buzzing grew more shrill. If you don’t go now, geezer, you never will. I listened to my inner cicada, and the uneasiness subsided. If I’d learned anything, it was that the things you do never cause as much regret as the things you don’t. But”
― The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
― The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
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314 books
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73 books
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145 books
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659 books
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