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Thirty-one tips for reducing your impact while saving money
I was reading through comments here on the blog last night and I found this great list of tips by reader Millie Barnes, who writes a blog about health and gardening called Optimum Nutrition. Her tips were just too comprehensive to let them languish in the comments. So here they are (I don’t even mind […]
“The biggest enemy is tap water”
That’s a quote, apparently, by Robert S. Morrison, vice chairman of PepsiCo–which owns Aquafina. I heard it when I was watching a brand new documentary–Tapped–by director Stephanie Soechtig about the perils of the bottled water industry to people and the planet. I also confirmed that Morrison called our most precious asset “the enemy” here. Anyway, […]
Design that doesn’t waste
In the meditation school where I sit, we have formal Zen meals during retreats. Each of us sets out four bowls in front of the mats on which we sit. Water is placed in the furthermost, right-hand bowl. Different types of food go in the other bowls. But what is fascinating from a conservation perspective […]
True freedom
What we tend to mean when we talk of freedom is the freedom from want. And we tend to think that freedom from want comes from getting what we desire. So one path I sometimes stumble along in my life is to try to get all that I want. But I’ve found that achieving the […]
To participate in the real economy
This is a guest post by my friend Sean Sakamoto who writes the blog I’d Rather Be In Japan. You can read his previous post on No Impact Man here. “Thrift can take lasting hold of a consumer society, to disastrous effect.” —The New York Times I keep reading about how saving is the worst […]
What makes me happiest doesn’t cost the planet
My little girl Isabella and I just spent the weekend at a gathering at the Providence Zen Center, the head temple of the Kwan Um School of Zen, where I meditate. There were five or six other kids there and from the moment we arrived Isabella ran around having fun and paying almost no attention […]
No Impact Man is hiring!
I’ll go into more details about this when we officially launch, but I’m excited to say that some colleagues and I are soon planning to launch a non-profit–to be known as the No Impact Project–with the goal of engaging citizens in our cultural response to the crises in our environment and our way of life. […]