I thought I’d repost some of the thoughts I had during the No Impact year itself, so here’s one that suits the season… Lest I get too heady with all my talk of radical political acts and trusting wisdom before science, I thought you might like to know where No Impact Man goes body surfing while the […]
Do a dance for yogurt that isn’t in plastic tubs
As we approach the launch of the No Impact Man book and the film, I thought it would be fun to repost some of what I wrote way back in 2007 at the beginning of the No Impact Man year, back when I was just a newly dubbed No Impact Man. This post first appeared […]
Health care and the environment
You’d think that the environment and the debate over universal health care weren’t connected, right? But what I’ve been thinking is that for all of us to begin to choose lifestyles that might be both better for us and better for environment, we have to be able to unplug from the Matrix. We have to […]
Coal industry forges letters to Congress from citizen’s groups
I don’t mind a fair fight over the issues, but I hate liars and cheats. In case you haven’t heard, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity has repeatedly forged letters from citizen’s groups and sent them to Congress in an effort to try to manipulate the defeat of legislation to mitigate global warming (read […]
World’s first sneak preview of 60 secs from the No Impact Man Doc
Opens in theaters Sept 11, don’t forget. Get info here.
What if I’m right about climate change?
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about what I’d say if I turned out to be wrong about climate change and we’d erroneously made a huge effort to prevent it. Well, a couple of years ago, I was messing around with Photoshop and I made the below. It pertains to what we might say […]
A little snippet from my book
Something happened yesterday that reminded me of this little snippet of my book No Impact Man which comes out in September and which you can pre-order from Amazon, BN.Com, and online from your local independent bookseller: I watched a video of Pema Chödrön, a Buddhist nun, discussing the reaction of New York citizens when the […]
Why living No Impact contributes to happiness
I have a college professor friend and today he conjectured as to the reasons why choosing a life with less impact contributed to my family’s happiness during the No Impact year. He said that important contributors to happiness are: Meaning: I got a lot of satisfaction out of living a life that seemed connected to […]