Remember that article about morality that I liked yesterday so much from the New York Times Magazine? Well, here is a passage, parts of which I disagree with substantially: And nowhere is moralization more of a hazard than in our greatest global challenge. The threat of human-induced climate change has become the occasion for a […]
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Talking effectively about “the planet”
On the road so just a thought: The New York Times Magazine had an interesting article, yesterday, about the science of morality, which offers some excellent insight into talking about climate change and the environment to people who seem more concerned about other things. In the “The Morality Instinct,” writer Steven Pinker says that we […]
Hodgepodge of thoughts on individual choices and air travel
So people get pretty upset, in turns out, when you suggest that to live environmentally might mean fewer air trips to the Bahamas. “What’s the point of saving the world if I can’t see it?” someone commented yesterday. Oh boy. That roused some other people. I get both sides of the argument, so it’s hard […]
The problem of air travel
Yesterday, you may have read, I posted about how No Impact Man lives once the rules of the No Impact Man project cease to exist. I called myself low impact man in that post, but I’m sticking with my original moniker. The ironies are just too precious. Anyway, one thing I brought up is the […]
Now that I’m only lower impact man
Some truths about my life without the gazillion rules to follow: I don’t like making an impact but I like living in the dark less–the lights are on. All our bulbs are CFL. We buy wind power (and you can too). Nothing is plugged in when it isn’t used. The fridge is on but the […]
Apropos, first, of nothing and, then, of something
Apropos of nothing: The other night I was lying in bed, being held hostage by my daughter Isabella who insisted she would only go to sleep if I stayed there with her. She was mad that I had made her go to bed at all. She said, “I don’t like you anymore, Daddy.” So we’re […]
Buying small and local vs. supporting green in large
I buy my soap from a lady named Susannah who hand-makes it from beeswax, water and lye and nothing else. For other people, she scents it with essential oils, but when I read that essential oils are being used in such concentration that they are now entering the water and affecting marine wildlife, I asked […]
Steering the difficult course of running an ethical business (namely mine)
Recently a friend of mine, who writes a popular blog of an environmental bent, told me he had decided to close his blog down. The reason is that he is actually a journalist and author and he found that the blog was taking a fair amount of his work day but contributed nothing to his […]