The No Impact Experiment, brought to you by the No Impact Project, is a one-week carbon cleanse. It is a chance for you to see what a difference no-impact living can have on your quality of life. It’s not about giving up creature comforts but an opportunity for you to test whether the modern “conveniences” you take for […]
May each go his own way
The other day I published a post called about finding your own path to helping the world by trusting yourself. What I didn’t say was that the post was inspired by something I read in the recently released book of secret writings by Carl Jung collected in The Red Book. The book is, in a […]
Trust the spark within and find your own path
Since the release of the No Impact Man book and film I have been privileged to be in conversation with many groups. And always, someone asks me with great earnestness, “What can I do?” Many times, in other words, people ask me for how-to-save-the-planet directions. “Just start,” I say. And then I pause while they […]
Global warming or no, a renewable energy economy would bring a better world
Things are not going well there as you’ll see by the video below. That’s too bad for the American economy, for our prospects as world leader, and for our national security (even the US Army now believes that the geopolitical instability brought about by climate change will be one of the biggest threats to our […]
Finally doing what I can about the Copenhagen climate talks
I Skyped with a good friend who is in Copenhagen participating in the climate negotiations today. She told me she woke up crying. Yesterday, a large group of some 70 developing countries walked out of the climate talks because they felt that an unfair responsibility for carbon reductions was falling on poor countries. Luckily, they […]
In search of a unifying theory of all our problems
When you look at the climate problem and the difficulties we have dealing with it and you combine that with a consumer culture that doesn’t seem to be making people happy, you’d think we’d be able to find a solution. You’d think we’d be able to do better by ourselves. But things are moving so […]
No Impact Project needs interns
From the No Impact Project: Project The No Impact Project (NIP) was conceived by Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, following the success of his blog, book, and film, which chronicle his family’s year-long experiment living a zero-waste lifestyle in New York City. Central to his thesis is the notion that deep-seated individual behavior change leads to both cultural […]
No Impact Man screening and Christmas consumption discussion
From the No Impact Project: Every year, growing numbers of us are unhappy with the shopping frenzy that surrounds the holidays but most of us don’t know how to get off the treadmill. What if we worked together to find another way to celebrate? This holiday season join us in finding more of what matters. […]