1. Happier planet = happier people. 2. You make a difference. 3. Our culture is broken. 4. The personal is political. 5. Economic growth ≠ Life satisfaction growth. 6. Jobs are paramount but we should work to make our planetary home better not worse. 7. The concept of zero sum game is for people with […]
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Progress
The Guggenheim Museum in NYC asked me to write something on progress for one of their exhibitions: 2009 had cooler cell phones than 2008. 2010 has cooler cell phones than 2009. 2011 will have even cooler cell phones than 2010. That won’t be progress. Year in, year out, we have cooler cell phones. If it’s […]
Eco groups! Wanna screen No Impact Man on Earth Week?
Stephanie, my colleague at the No Impact Project, asked me to draw your attention to the fact that we are having a screening series of No Impact Man during Earth Week in April. The idea is to bring people together to watch the movie–call it candy–and then to get them to take environmental action–call it […]
Who do our political parties really care about?
Yesterday, I read about the deadlock in Congress over dealing with our deficit and I felt just sickened. I twittered: “I’ve begun to think that both parties care more about institutional survival than our national and planetary survival.” This, in turn, got fed to my “status” on my Facebook page, where lots of people started […]
What if we create better world for nothing?
Thanks for this to the Empress of Dirt.
What if there is no human-caused global warming?
A long time ago, someone wrote to me and asked me what I would do if I was wrong about climate change? I answered him like this. Just the other day someone else wrote to me. He went on about liberals and how they complain and a bunch of other things he doesn’t like about […]
Working for the good instead of complaining about the bad
The world’s easiest first step into growing your own local food
Sprouting. It’s cheap, easy, nutritional and you can do it even if you have no access to other forms of local food. Isabella, my little girl, loves sprouting because she gets to grow sprouts herself and then eats them by the handful. Start with lentils. Take a cup or so. Put them in a bowl. […]