Thanks to @denadu8pbb for tweeting this old post of mine. When I reread it I thought it bears reposting. One thing about a single-payer health care system. People say that it will cause an unhealthy relationship between people and the government. But my question is this: Doesn’t the fact that we currently depend on major […]
Lose weight with the trash-free food diet
I was just at a trash summit put together by the Alice Ferguson Foundation. The Foundation teaches kids about the outdoors and environmental stewardship, but the problem was that they were getting all this trash washed up on their property on the banks of the Potomac River. So they started the Trash Free Potomac Watershed […]
How to go No Impact
You may have heard that over 4,700 people went No Impact via the NoImpactProject.org‘s No Impact Week, hosted last week on the Huffington Post. Missed it? No worries. The NRDC’s website Simple Steps is getting ready to host our week one more time, starting November 15, as period of non-consumptive mindfulness in the run up […]
The world acts as one
Last Saturday, citizens from 181 countries gathered in 5245 separate actions to demonstrate for a global agreement that called for no more than 350 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide. When have so many people from so many countries ever agreed on anything?
Eco-conflict in an eco-marraige
From my favorite press piece on No Impact Man, an article by AP report Samantha Gross: Toward the end of the experiment, Conlin would talk about how much she wanted a dishwasher again. But when they flipped the power switch, the machine stayed dead. There was no way to fix it, and an attempt to […]
My world favorite 350 messenger
When we went to the 350.org action in Times Square on Saturday, my four-year-old Bella insisted that “the lady” paint 350 on her face. 350 is the number of parts per million carbon dioxide we can afford to have in the atmosphere without the global warming tipping point occurring I was honored with the chance […]
Join your local 350 action on Saturday
This Saturday, October 24, more than 4,000 events in 170 countries will take place as part of 350's International Day of Climate Action — all calling upon world leaders to reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere to a safe level of 350 parts per million. It's the largest collective display of action to fight climate […]
The biggest design question there is
Designer friends tell me that when they design a product or system, it's important to ask the right "design question." Asking the right design question is perhaps most import when it comes to making sure that your product or system does the job. So when it comes to designing cities or cultures or economies or […]