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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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Spare the Air
Uploaded: Dec 23, 2013
Best for the holiday season.
We have had a record number of spare the air in these parts. Despite blue skies and what I take in as fresh air. So what gives?
I learned a lesson from my young adult daughter, who is working in China.
China has a major air pollution problem. And that smog does not sit still. It crosses the Pacific Ocean and migrates from there to spoil other parts of the world, including the Bay Area.
There is tremendous irony that a Communist country where everyone road bicycles some years ago now has some of the worst auto traffic conditions I have ever experienced.
Then there is the smog. It has attribution more than automobiles: manufacturing and energy production (including coal imported from the US) are causing the problem.
Spare the air here has a tail that starts across an ocean away.
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