Personal behavior change is so subtle you don’t see it happening, and can forget how far you’ve come. There are thousands of tips for reducing your impact and living the green and good life, but realizing which you are really doing and what that means can be difficult to pin down. Your efforts deserve to be recognized, monitored, and charted over time. We'll even throw in some reader prizes eventually, too!

Here’s how to start your own sustainability journal, which you can use to set goals and to look back on as you change your lifestyle. We'll bring you more features weekly, including printable guides to a home waste audit, travel diary, games for kids and a home energy analyzer, all from our green living guides. I’ll also be doing this all myself, and roping in guests from the EcoMetro staff and friends, so we can both gripe and high-five together. Ready? Read on... More...

Jeff Moran, Quality Engineering Manager at Adobe Systems
Neighborhood: Works in Freemont and lives in Greenwood.

We interviewed Jeff Moran in the spring of 2007. View his interview in the 08' Chinook Book on page 36.

Talk about your biking lifestyle
I manage the Adobe Seattle Bike Club email list, put together the majority of the internal Bike to Work Day events, and am a board member of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. There are about 400 people assigned to this Adobe location, and about 85 members in club, though 30% don’t ride frequently. Adobe couldn’t offer more to bikers, we jokingly ask “what could Adobe do shy of coming to your house and dressing you in Lycra?” We have a bike cage in the parking garage that holds 75 bike slots, in that cage I’ve been allowed to build up a fully functioning bike shop, and there’s lockers down there for helmets etc. Inside the building we have locker rooms and showers. As part of their commute trip reduction they will pay $30 a month in coupons just for biking 50% of the time, per month. They support Bike to Work Day at the 10k sponsorship level. They do a lot to encourage us, we have a lot of free reign. More...

The other day on my lunch break, I decided to step into Aveda. It's not a store that I shop at on a regular basis, but I enjoy some of their products.