…at least that’s how the song is going to go about 50 years from now if nothing changes. The oceans are going to turn into liquid deserts. Goodbye sushi for the up market and fish and chips for the down. If you follow eco-topics at all, and you read the New York Times or The Independent or the BBC’s […]
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How to negotiate a marital eco-fight
Back when we were in the trash phase of the project, Michelle and I went to the farmers’ market at Union Square and walked up to the booth of the Lower East Side Ecology Center. I said, “Let’s look at the worms.” “Worms,” Michelle said. “What worms?” “They sell worms which you keep in a bin and they make […]
The point of it all
Sometimes people tell me that they are very concerned about the environment but that they don’t feel their efforts can make the slightest difference. I like to tell a mushy story my friend told me about a little girl on the beach. Thousands of starfish have been washed up by a rip tide. They are dying in the sun. […]
A word to the critics and a story about a cat
So you guys–and by you guys I mean my critics–I welcome your remarks as long as it’s dialog and not invective, but I do think it might be nice if you took the trouble to get your facts straight. Attack my ideas, but saying my ideas are worthless because I have “a housekeeper”–when, in fact, […]
Boys, girls, and whose job is it to take out the compost?
So I got this email today from a woman named Nellie Wieland. I Googled her and she appears to be a professor of philosophy or something like that who has reviewed books by Noam Chomsky. Now, I love Noam Chomsky but only when someone else explains to me what he’s talking about. This is by […]
A sea of people in NYC
Treehugger predicts that this Saturday, April 14, at 12 noon, New York City will have the biggest environmental event since the first Earth Day in 1970. Get out your blue shirts! Why? Because the New York event, called Sea of People, aims to line up thousands of participants along the predicted climate-change flood lines in […]
Care to join me on Saturday?
Too tired to write a longer post, but in case you’re popping in after watching Colbert–or even if you didn’t tune in–and you wanted to know what I’ll be doing Saturday, April 14, I’m going to my local National Day of Climate Action rally. Want to join in? Find out where your local rally is […]
Oh no, here come the weirdos with the cloths
Here is a scene that repeated itself a hundred times in the beginning of the No Impact project: we sat down in a restaurant, the server came over all smiles, we said hi, picked the paper napkins from the table, handed them to the confused-looking server, said we brought our own, and pulled our clothes from our pockets with […]