People often ask what I kept from the No Impact year, and there’s a lot I still try to do. I bike most places, I buy only second-hand, we don’t have air conditioners. But there are certain things that are lines in the sand for me and bottled water is one. I just can’t bring […]
Open Discussion–Comment free for all
Here’s another chance to discuss, here on the blog, whatever is on your mind. Ask questions. Answer questions. Make comments. Somebody hurry up and be the first to say something. Now then, as for all you readers who get the blog by email, you will actually have to come to the web page itself to […]
Don’t want a weird, new flu? Then let’s stop global warming.
Yeah, really. We’re all going to get sicker as the ice caps melt according to a new story in Wired (photo courtesy of them, by the way). Why? Well, to put it succinctly, in the words of the blog What Ya Thinkn?: Humans keep relying on non-renewable sources. Use of these sources leads to rapid […]
Are we just a green bubble that has burst?
Recently, The New Republic published an article by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute calling the trend towards lower consumption coupled with the search for meaningful life no more than a public opinion bubble that has burst. They argue that individual lifestyle change–of which I am one of the chief national proponents, […]
An easy, automatic way to tell your Congressional Reps you want them to solve the climate crisis
In this crucial point in history, digging, stumbling, reposting or emailing the below could do an incredible amount of good for the entire world. Just saying! :) This post is by Garth Moore and comes from the 1Sky blog. Click on the link, fill out the form and an automated system will call you and […]
Open-source environmental activism
One of the things I’m into is cool tools that allow people to easily take environmental action. What if you wanted to recruit volunteers get trees planted in your neighborhood? Or if you wanted to clean the trash off your local riverbank? What if, on the other hand, you wanted to join other volunteers to […]
Good cause. Cool art. You can help.
You may know WorldChanging, the extra cool website I sometimes write for that helps lead design thinking when it comes to making both people and the planet happier. Their mission: “WorldChanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it’s just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving.”Well, […]
Forget the stuff. Let’s just get happy.
A quote from a TED talk given by Dan Gilbert, the Harvard professor and author of Stumbling on Happiness: Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted. Synthetic happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness […]