I bought a bike last week from Angie’s List A-lister Indy Cycle Specialist. Not just any bike. A Giant Tran Send commuter bike with rack, fenders, bell and built-in compass.
“Hello, inner 8-year-old.”
I feel like that kid in A Christmas Story who longed for a “Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot Range Model air rifle BB gun with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time.”
I might blow out a knee, but I can’t shoot my eye out with the Tran Send.
When I moved to Indianapolis this month to join Angie’s List, everything came together to make my dream of bike ownership come true. Continue reading ‘I won’t shoot my eye out.’
Matthew is the senior editor for local affairs at
Angie’s List magazine. When he’s not at the Blue House, he enjoys reading and writing fiction, playing guitar and riding his bicycle.
When we started doing research for our green issue, I didn’t know much about building a “green” house. I figured if you turned the lights off when you left a room and turned the water off while you brushed your teeth, you were doing your part to help the environment. People who really knew what they were doing could add some solar panels to their home or replace their windows with new, low-e ones. But that was it, right?
Wrong. Continue reading ‘Going green across the country’
Liz is an associate editor at
Angie's List magazine. She enjoys eating chocolate chip ice cream on the beach after swimming. She also likes colder, drearier places like London.
“Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520 – 570. In the subtractive color system, it’s not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue or yellow and cyan.”
— Wikipedia
With all this buzz surrounding sustainable living and eco-friendly practices, I bet some of you had forgotten: green is actually a color. NBC devoted a whole week to going green, Al Gore mysteriously pops up in front of every camera on Earth and Angie’s List magazine just printed our “Green Issue,” exploring everything from LEED-certified houses to green products for the home.
It seems everywhere you turn, green’s a buzz word that’s being used. And there’s a reason. While many promote green as a way to save the environment, it seems the true catalyst in this current movement is economics. People are moving towards sustainable living to save the most important green element: cash. Continue reading ‘Green is a color?’
Conor is an associate editor for
Angie's List magazine. He has a cat named Kanye and a puppy named Sherman, his favorite movie is
Back to the Future, he loves playing basketball and his favorite place is his couch.
I wouldn’t call my sister Teresa an activist, but I’m starting to change my thinking. She believes and supports many causes, but I don’t usually hear of her doing something about it (I think most of us are like that). So, when I got an e-mail from her earlier this week about her mission to implement two of the three R’s in the eco-friendly creed “reduce, reuse, recycle,” I was pleasantly surprised.
Teresa has been taking canvas bags to carry home her groceries in so that she doesn’t have to use the plastic ones (reduce, reuse — see?) On a recent trip, the cashier was obviously irritated by this, which in turn irritated Teresa. “I don’t think she liked messing with my bags. Pfft!” she wrote.
Irritable cashiers aside, I definitely believe it IS a good thing, and it was a small anecdote that jibed with my mental state here in the magazine department. My head was filled with thoughts of green this and that as I had just finished the update of Angie’s List magazine’s website, magazine.angieslist.com. Continue reading ‘Actually, green is my favorite color’
Mandy Miller is senior online editor for Angie's List publication department. When she's not focusing on the
magazine's website and other online offerings, she's tackling a mounting list of home improvements she thinks she can do herself. Plus, she really likes to ride her bike, play with her puppy, Boo Radley, and take naps.
I bought a bike last week from Angie’s List A-lister Indy Cycle Specialist. Not just any bike. A Giant Tran Send commuter bike with rack, fenders, bell and built-in compass.
