Leah Korican's blog

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I've been away from my blog. yup, between the obsessively following the election, teaching, doing laundry, and working on the biggest ever solar project I've made I got out of the habit of posting but I'm going to start posting again. Read more...

my new hero

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Today I was struggling with my solar powered sculpture project. It's coming together but there have been some technical areas I just didn't know how to make work. The art/techy types I emailed weren't responding...despair was beginning to set in. Finally, today I called, yes just got on the phone with, Therese who I had been referred to by Tony and she sent me to Guy. Read more...

Ecoversary

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This week I celebrated 20 years of being married. In the midst of the busyness of school starting, daughter's bday, and myriad details of daily life my husband and I managed to get away for 24 hours!
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Parking Day 2008

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Happy Parking Day and happy 1st bday to my blog! Mary V. Marsh and I set out bright and early but ironically, got caught in traffic, on our way to parking day. Still we set up outside SFMOMA and made our park.
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I heart Freecycle

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I recently got back into Freecycling as I cleared out stuff and I've got to say I loooove it. If you are unfamiliar with Freecycle Freecycle it is an email list where folks post what they have to give away and others respond. Let me enumerate what I love about freecycle. I can post my odds and ends, things that are cluttering and encumbering my life and others, often unseen, will gratefully relieve me of them.
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Sustainable School Institute

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This week I attended a Bay Are Teacher Dev. Collaborative institute on Sustainability. It was held at the Bay School (hence the photo). Two fun filled days of presentations, conversations, and delicious, organic food. The keynote speaker was Fritjof Capra,from the Center for Ecoliteracy .
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blue shadows

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With all the smoke in the air lately the colors have changed. The light has a yellow/orange cast and the shadows look bluer than usual. It made me think of Monet's paintings of sunsets that were probably created by the coal and wood smoke hazing the cities back then....

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