“People killing, people dying, Children hurt and you hear them crying. Can you practice what you preach And won’t you turn the other cheek? Father, Father, Father help us. Send some guidance from above, Cause people got me, got me questioning: Where is the love? Where is the love? Where is the love? Where is […]
Help. I need to wash.
OK, it’s not that I mean I need help washing—promise! This post is about two separate subjects: help, as in I need some–in the form of a research assistant/intern–and washing, as in a lot of people have been asking how I wash my body and my home environmentally. First, about washing (but if you’re dying to be my intern you […]
Please don’t say it’s a fight
A couple of days ago, Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek’s innovation and design guru, posted on his blog that “We now have two approaches to sustainability—live light on the land and cut back consumption vs. live like the crazy consumer that you are but use different chemistry that recycles, reuses and reinvents stuff.” “Hair-shirt sustainability vs. Go-Go growth sustainability,” he wrote. “Colin […]
The beat of a quieter drummer
A couple of months ago, it started to pour with rain while Isabella rode my shoulders in a backpack-like contraption. There were, surprisingly, plenty of available taxis that day on 6th Avenue, but No Impact means no taxis, so I did my best in a wind-torn wrestling match with our umbrella and I started the […]
Why we avoid the subway
Today I’ll answer one of the many questions that are still coming in. I’ll respond to them over time, okay? The one that I’ll answer today: why don’t we take public transportation? Aren’t buses and subways a good thing? Yes, public transportation is wonderful and once the No Impact experiment is over, we’ll probably use it, at least when […]
Today I’m letting other people do the work
It’s 8:00 PM on Thursday night. The high point of my day was dancing with Isabella to a 70s group called Brewer and Shipley, my favorite when I was eight. Isabella and I love to dance together. I dread when we can’t use the stereo when we finally turn the electricity off in a couple of months. I’m looking […]
Just a couple of snippets
[Sorry, but I forgot to mention when I first put this post up that I will be on PRI’s Fair Game tonight (March 29). You can listen here at 8:00 PM EST if you’re interested. You can find the archived show if you missed it.] You know how I’ve written that plastic bags are the devil, […]
Wake up and smell the compost (joking)
I’m going to talk about the why, where, and how of the box of decomposing food scraps in my kitchen. But first off, Time Out New York Kids, the local parenting magazine, will be running my Wednesday posts on their site as a way to apprise parents of green issues. Welcome, new readers! No Impact […]