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Colin Beavan

How To Quit The Unhappy Numbers Game

February 25, 2016 by Colin Beavan

Once you have enough and you find yourself wanting more than enough, it is never going to make you happy. And then all that happens is, when more than enough is not enough, you think it is because you need more than more than enough. The treadmill never stops. The worst thing is, while you are putting all your effort into that, you don’t have time for the things that will actually make you happy. So how do you get off the ride?

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man

On Feeling Fully Human

March 2, 2015 by Colin Beavan

I have variously spent parts of my life chasing cash, prestige, experience. I have come up with ideas of what life is for, and clung to them, perhaps because it is to frightening to admit that I just don’t know. Why was I born? Why will I die? What am I for? Many times in my […]

Filed Under: Purpose and Meaning

No Impact Man Runs For Office

November 19, 2012 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Please check out my article on the Atlantic Monthly’s website about my activist run for Congress and how citizen politics can help do something about climate and other problems: My unlikely course in activist politicking started with a May call from a member of the executive committee of the Green Party of New York State. The […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man

Forget outer heroes; bring out your inner ones

November 13, 2012 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I got a piece of fan mail from a young woman at Goldsmith College in London calling me her “idol.” I’m not so comfortable with being anyone’s idol and I actually don’t think it does us much good to worship outer idols. Instead we need to give our energy to bringing our inner idols out. […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man

What to do if the world is scaring you

November 3, 2012 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Here is a post I wrote after Hurricane Sandy hit NYC and made is all realize climate change was not a far-away thing. It is just as relevant every time a world event scares you as it was then… Dear friends, I don’t say this often but I am scared. Not scared to the point […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man

My Speech At Green Party National Convention

July 17, 2012 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Here is the speech I made at the Green Party National Convention on Saturday. It’s 20 minutes long so if you don’t want to watch it but you want to know the themes: 1. Democracy works on the principle that wisdom is collected from a group in order to make decisions that result in the […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man

The problem of materialism and the solution in five minutes

February 29, 2012 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

A video written by my friend and colleague Tim Kasser. It presents a unifying theory of what’s wrong and what to do about it.

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Family and Friendship, Society

Ever wanted kids but decided not to have them?

November 8, 2011 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I am curious about people who wanted to have a child or children but decided to have none or fewer because of concerns over population growth. I'm *not* interested in hearing from people who condemn the choice to have chidren but rather from people actually feel and understand the tug towards parenthood but have chosen […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, Relationships, Family and Friendship

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