As you know, my famous rickshaw was stolen from outside my building. I blogged about its loss. Tonight, I got home and someone (Catherine T) had left a comment on the blog saying they saw it on 8th Street and Broadway. So I went over there, and sure enough! Sadly, it’s pretty screwed up. For […]
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Have you seen my stolen rickshaw?
I’m so sad to say that I woke up this morning to find that my faithful old green rickshaw had been stolen from outside our apartment building. This was the rickshaw built for me nearly three years ago by the amazing New York bike genius George Bliss. Because it was during the No Impact Man […]
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Put the fun back in the holidays–spend less, enjoy more
I wanted to let everyone know about a nationwide event my No Impact Project is undertaking with the Center for a New American Dream. During the two-weeks of the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (December 7th-18th), we’re bringing people together to talk about the impact of holiday spending on their lives and the […]
How Obama could permanently strengthen our well being
Thanks to @denadu8pbb for tweeting this old post of mine. When I reread it I thought it bears reposting. One thing about a single-payer health care system. People say that it will cause an unhealthy relationship between people and the government. But my question is this: Doesn’t the fact that we currently depend on major […]
Lose weight with the trash-free food diet
I was just at a trash summit put together by the Alice Ferguson Foundation. The Foundation teaches kids about the outdoors and environmental stewardship, but the problem was that they were getting all this trash washed up on their property on the banks of the Potomac River. So they started the Trash Free Potomac Watershed […]
How to go No Impact
You may have heard that over 4,700 people went No Impact via the NoImpactProject.org‘s No Impact Week, hosted last week on the Huffington Post. Missed it? No worries. The NRDC’s website Simple Steps is getting ready to host our week one more time, starting November 15, as period of non-consumptive mindfulness in the run up […]
The world acts as one
Last Saturday, citizens from 181 countries gathered in 5245 separate actions to demonstrate for a global agreement that called for no more than 350 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide. When have so many people from so many countries ever agreed on anything?