This is a picture of the mouth of a 7-year-old boy named Ryan Massey who has the misfortune of living in a coal mining area in West Virginia. In case you missed Sunday’s New York Times article “Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering:” [Ryan’s] entire family tries to avoid any contact […]
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Head of 1Sky speaks at NIM screenings
Hey folks, just want to let you know that Gillian Caldwell from 1Sky.org will be speaking at No Impact Man screenings at Angelika in NYC at 5 and 720 PM today (Sunday). She’s amazing. From the 1Sky blog: “Will making your voice heard somehow bring happiness? Will being more active in your community make you more […]
Come to my first book signing!
Hey folks, Just a note to invite you to my first-ever No Impact Man book signing in New York City. It’s at the Barnes and Noble in Tribeca, 97 Warren Street, at 7:00 PM tonight (Thursday, 9/10). And don’t forget, No Impact Man the documentary opens in New York (Angelika) and in Los Angeles (Laemmie […]
Michelle’s lessons from No Impact
This is a guest post by my wife, Michelle Conlin, who bravely joined me in the No Impact year. The post appeared on BusinessWeek.com, where there are a full sweet of features to do with No Impact. Check them out! My author husband, Colin Beavan, decided in late 2006 that he wanted to stop writing […]
Find a happier, more eco-friendly life
Hey Folks, the website for the No Impact Project is up. Designed by Free Range Studios (who did Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff), NoImpactProject.org will be an entry point for those who want explore the principle that a happier planet makes for happier people in their own lives. This is just the beginning. You’ll see […]
Thank you, Mr Edelstein!
In an article called No Impact Man and the Idiotocracy, New York Magazine film critic wrote on his blog The Projectionist: That brings back a time. In the Eighties, I shared an apartment in New York with my dear friend Bill McKibben, around the time he was getting in touch with his inner Thoreau. (He […]
A stunt or not a stunt. That is NOT the question.
Last week, Elizabeth Kolbert, a respected New Yorker journalist who writes admirably about issues to do with our climate catastrophe and the environment, wrote a scathing attack on my book, No Impact Man. Sadly, casualties on the battlefield of Kolbert’s wrath included not only me, but also the work of James McKinnen and Alisa Smith (authors of 100 Mile […]
Today, No Impact Man hits the bookstores!
And it only took three years!!! To have it shipped by an independent bookseller. To buy from Amazon. To buy from BN.com.