Downpower was a secondary blog I maintained from late 2007 to mid 2008, a “journal chronicling the attempt” to “make my life better for the world”. The attempt and the blog were both underwhelming; the latter came to seven posts, which I’ve just realized are still online (I thought I’d taken the blog down). The WordPress installation is of course way out of date, which is a big no-no, so I’ve merged the posts and comments into my main blog, tagged them, and taken the standalone version off the Web. I hate linkrot, but I haven’t learned all the redirecting magic and I doubt it’ll affect anyone anyway, so as a stopgap here is a list of the posts and their old addresses:

• Introduction (formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2007/11/07/introduction/)
• STUFF (formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2007/11/14/stuff/)
• Cutting Your Car Use (formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2007/11/28/cutting-your-car-use/)
• In The Absence Of The Sacred (formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2007/12/05/in-the-absence-of-the-sacred/)
• Doing the Laundry (formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2007/12/12/doing-the-laundry/)
• Walden, and the dryer update (formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2008/01/02/walden-and-the-dryer-update/)
• Off To A Bad Start (formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2008/01/16/off-to-a-bad-start/)
• On Hiatus (formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/2008/07/30/on-hiatus/)

There were also two pages of links:

Local Links

(formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/local-links/)

• Ashuelot River Free School
• Cheshire County Rail-Trails
• Central Connecticut River Valley Institute
• Everyone’s Books
• Hannah Grimes
• Monadnock Institute For Community Advancement & Sustainability
• Montpelier Matters
• The Mountain School
• Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
• NHDOT Bicycle/Pedestrian Information Center
• Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
• Pathways For Keene
• Picadilly Farm
• ReNew Building Materials & Salvage
• Toadstool Bookshops
• Vermont Business Materials Exchange

General Links

(formerly at http://www.colintedford.com/downpower/general-links/)

• Center For Partnership Studies
• Earth Policy Institute
• Kill Your Television
• Stephanie McMillan
• Moonlight Chronicles
• Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
• Sightline Institute
• Starhawk
• YES! Magazine

And to round it all out, here’s a screenshot of how it looked: