I’m excited to say that I’ve written the first of what will be a bi-weekly column at WorldChanging. Under a different title, my WorldChanging post begins: The task at hand — to create a new reality; a new way of living with fewer resources while providing a prosperous life for every member of our growing population — […]
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The ridiculousness of relying on “market indicators” to run our planet
We’ve all heard talk of the efficiency of the free market. You know, as the idea goes, companies will only do what customer-citizens want them to do, because if they don’t, customers will sanction the companies by not buying from them. There are all sorts of reasons why this doesn’t work, of course, including the […]
The Green Collar Economy
I wanted to alert you all to the just-published The Green Collar Economy–How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones. As Time Magazine puts it: “Van Jones does not look like your typical environmentalist. He doesn’t wear Birkenstocks. He’s African-American in a movement that tends to be overwhelmingly white. His background is in […]
If you eat fish, you eat plastic
On Tuesday night I had the great honor of introducing Markus Eriksen and Anna Cummins of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation when they gave a talk at NYU. Last summer, Markus and a colleague sailed a junk raft made from 15,000 plastic bottles from California to Honolulu in order to bring attention to the huge […]
Oops!
I don’t know how this hasn’t happened many times before, in hindsight, but I went to bed and had forgotten to put up today’s post. Sorry, folks! See you tomorrow (Friday).
Open Discussion–Comment free for all, continued
We started this discussion when I put this post up a few days ago but I wanted to bring it back to the top for you to think about again. There are lots of questions and comments in here that you may not have seen could be addressed by the No Impact Man community. So […]
No Impact Man Blog–Day One
70 degree days in January… How can anyone possibly deny global warming? We can’t wait for the government. What if I tried consuming less? Would that make a difference? Could I at least feel like I was trying? What if my whole family tried? What if other people followed suit? What if my whole family […]
I don’t want to burn myself out
In response to yesterday’s post about the Pablo Neruda poem, Anne from Not So Big Blog sent a quote from Edward Abbey, who she calls the “cranky environmentalist/mystic of the desert southwest”: “One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast… a part-time crusader, a half-hearted […]