I Skyped with a good friend who is in Copenhagen participating in the climate negotiations today. She told me she woke up crying. Yesterday, a large group of some 70 developing countries walked out of the climate talks because they felt that an unfair responsibility for carbon reductions was falling on poor countries. Luckily, they […]
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In search of a unifying theory of all our problems
When you look at the climate problem and the difficulties we have dealing with it and you combine that with a consumer culture that doesn’t seem to be making people happy, you’d think we’d be able to find a solution. You’d think we’d be able to do better by ourselves. But things are moving so […]
No Impact Project needs interns
From the No Impact Project: Project The No Impact Project (NIP) was conceived by Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, following the success of his blog, book, and film, which chronicle his family’s year-long experiment living a zero-waste lifestyle in New York City. Central to his thesis is the notion that deep-seated individual behavior change leads to both cultural […]
No Impact Man screening and Christmas consumption discussion
From the No Impact Project: Every year, growing numbers of us are unhappy with the shopping frenzy that surrounds the holidays but most of us don’t know how to get off the treadmill. What if we worked together to find another way to celebrate? This holiday season join us in finding more of what matters. […]
What’s important?
First thing, wanted to remind you that you can follow me on twitter here and friend me on on Facebook here. Onwards… As you may know, Japan has lower per capita carbon emissions than any Western European country. For that reason, I asked my friend, Sean Sakamoto, who recently moved to Japan and who blogs […]
Figuring out how to live–Part 2
People often ask me how we are supposed to cope with the tragedy of the cliff of climate change and the fact that humanity seems ready to charge straight off it. How do you live in the face of that? One time, I went to a spiritual workshop at the Esalen Institute. The man in […]
Figuring out how to live
Figuring out how to live. Isn’t that what we’re all trying to do? To that point, here is some correspondence from my Facebook page to do with someone trying to figure out how to live in their own special circumstances: To Colin and friends: How do I become No Impact with an Autistic son? He eats […]
No Impact Man’s environmental how-tos
I thought it might fun to feature some of the old posts on the blog that give explicit directions on how to do things ecologically. Here they are: Cut out home heating oil–Japanese Style Get your child to eat almost any vegetable Get news about No Impact happenings Skip the work travel, have a more […]