As you know, I’m on vacation this week and am putting up old posts and other people’s wise words. This is one of my own, from February, that I thought might be helpful to new visitors to No Impact Man. Note that since I wrote this post and tried the methods within, I find I’m […]
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Some words from my no-shopping mentor
I’m going on vacation at Hawthorne Valley farm in Ghent, New York (and to answer questions about travel: train), so I programmed the computer to serve up some cool thoughts while I’m gone. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned my local eating mentor, Alisa Smith, who co-authored the 100-Mile Diet (titled Plenty in the United […]
And people think I’m extreme
Wanted to let you all know, first of all, that we’re taking next week off to spend a few days at an organic, biodynamic farm, known as Hawthorne Valley, in Ghent, New York. To quote my two-year-old Isabella, we’re going to see “worsies and cockadoodle doos and cows…and lions.” It’ll be kind of a busman’s […]
An interview with Green Options
Amy Stodghill, a writer with Green Options, talked to me by phone a few weeks ago. It turns out she comes awfully close to being better at getting my points across than I am! For that reason (and—I admit—because it lets me off the hook for a day), I thought I’d post my favorite parts of her piece. Green […]
Making bread
First of all, it took me all day yesterday to figure out why no one was commenting on yesterday’s post. I felt forgotten. Ignored (just kidding). Then, I realized I’d managed to turn comments off by mistake. Sorry! If you’d still like to comment on my thoughts that came when immediate gratification had gone, I’d love to hear. […]
Thoughts that come when immediate gratification has gone
From my journal during the time when we were first avoiding making any sort of trash: In my imagination, people used to live like this: you had most of the bare necessities but then every so often a relative managed to get hold of, say, some coffee or some salt and pepper or a guava […]
Click and the lights went out
It’s Sunday evening. I’m rushing to write this post. The inverter that converts the DC power from my new solar panel is humming beside me, charging my laptop. The computer is the only thing I’ll use the solar panel to power—at least for now. No lights, no fridge, no stereo—nothing electric. The sun is setting. Soon […]
A little on political action, a little on TP
Welcome again to the Good Morning America and Nightline viewers who are still finding their way here for the first time. You’ve come by just as I finish a series of three posts on climate change and what to do about it. Yesterday I wrote about how we can all help reduce climate change by driving […]