From my favorite press piece on No Impact Man, an article by AP report Samantha Gross: Toward the end of the experiment, Conlin would talk about how much she wanted a dishwasher again. But when they flipped the power switch, the machine stayed dead. There was no way to fix it, and an attempt to […]
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My world favorite 350 messenger
When we went to the 350.org action in Times Square on Saturday, my four-year-old Bella insisted that “the lady” paint 350 on her face. 350 is the number of parts per million carbon dioxide we can afford to have in the atmosphere without the global warming tipping point occurring I was honored with the chance […]
Join your local 350 action on Saturday
This Saturday, October 24, more than 4,000 events in 170 countries will take place as part of 350's International Day of Climate Action — all calling upon world leaders to reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere to a safe level of 350 parts per million. It's the largest collective display of action to fight climate […]
One Life, One Cup
As you may know, Japan has lower per capita carbon emissions than any Western European country. For that reason, I asked my friend, Sean Saskamoto, who recently moved to Japan and who blogs at I’d Rather Be In Japan, to check in with us every so often. I thought we might be able to learn a little something about […]
The biggest design question there is
Designer friends tell me that when they design a product or system, it's important to ask the right "design question." Asking the right design question is perhaps most import when it comes to making sure that your product or system does the job. So when it comes to designing cities or cultures or economies or […]
Join No Impact Week video discussions here!
Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger.com, is participating in No Impact week, starting October 18, and he wrote on the Huffington Post: Instead of edicts – depriving you of your car or forbidding drinking your latte from a paper cup – the No-Impact week brought to you by Colin Beavan and Huff Po is instead the opportunity […]
No Impact Week: Taking the environment into our own hands
As you may have heard, thousands of people have now signed up to participate in the No Impact Project’s week-long experiment in environmental living, which begins on October 18, hosted on the Huffington Post. That so many people are willing to make such a deep commitment demonstrates to themselves, to their neighbors, and to their elected officials that the […]