You may remember that, to avoid trashing disposable cups and bottles, I use a peanut butter jar as both my reusable coffee cup and my refillable water bottle. Well, today, cartoonist and animator Alex Hallatt, whose comic strip Arctic Circle appears on the Daily Green, emailed me this. Click on the image to enlarge. Enjoy!
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Brainwashing, I mean, teaching kids about sustainability
OK, I admit, the title is just a bad excuse to tell a story about my daughter Isabella. What can I say? This whole blog is one great excuse to tell stories about Isabella. Anyway. Back when the No Impact project first started, the then 18-month-old Bella and I made up a chant: “We’re vegetarians, […]
Prioritizing resource use to improve lives
I’ve thought a lot about the definition of waste. The way I figure out, a good way of defining waste is the use of planetary resources that don’t improve quality of life. I like this view a lot. Instead of environmental effectiveness being based on the restrictive view that we should simply “use less,” we […]
Help me to remember to love things just as they are
I was sitting here trying to think of what to write. I was trying to think about how things about how we live that could be improved–things that would make us happier, things that would make the planet happier. I got to staring out the window. It snowed. Birds chirped. There was that hush over […]
The role of television in American resource use
At a certain stage during the No Impact project, we got rid of the television, which kept making use feel that spending less and using fewer resources made us losers compared to the people we saw on the screen. Duane Elgin, author of Voluntary Simplicity, said something that caught my eye (thanks for sending Rosa!) […]
Treating anxiety and depression could save the planet
Something a regular reader of this blog may have been able to guess about me: I suffer, at times, from anxiety and depression. I’m not talking about the worst kind of anxiety and depression. I’m talking about the kind that takes the edge off the gratitude I should be feeling for a good life. Not, […]
Sustainable living on a community level
Streetfilms posted an interesting video today about Los Angeles Eco-Village, where people have come together to enjoy the benefits of sustainable and community living. “An ecovillage is a human scale neighborhood where people know their neighbors and care about them. People can live close to where they work and play and have access to other […]
Ostentatious individual action as a form of activism
Way back when I was first contemplating the possibility of the No Impact Man project, my main concern was with finding ways to bring attention to our environmental crises. I wanted everyone to change. As I thought of different ways to write about the crises, I began to worry that I would only be preaching […]