I’m learning something about life from biking everywhere (an element of the no carbon-producing transportation part of the No Impact Man project). It used to be that when I rode around Manhattan, I would chastise myself for getting mad or shouting at drivers or pedestrians. I would think I was becoming one of those rude […]
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Wondering how you can help?
If you’re reading this early enough and you want to tune in, you can catch me on Good Morning America around 8:30 this morning. Sorry not to let you all know earlier. There were schedule changes at the last minute. As for all the Good Morning America viewers who watched and are now dropping by, […]
The climate change action gamble
Thought you guys might be interested in this video sent to me by Ian of Brave New Traveler. It’s an apolitical, carefully reasoned argument which contends that the potential costs of doing something about climate change if it doesn’t exist are much less than the potential costs of not doing something if it does. PS Does anyone know […]
Can consumption-based capitalism survive environmentalism?
[This post was originally titled “Can capitalism survive environmentalism?” but I’ve since realized that the current title more accurately reflects what I meant to say. I’ve also made a couple of minor adjustments in the body text to reflect this change. NIM 6/23/09] A radio journalist called to talk to me about this question yesterday. I […]
Short and sweet
Sorry, those of you who tuned in to Good Morning America, but my appearance was rescheduled for the morning of Monday, June 25. Meanwhile, before I heard about the rescheduling, I wrote a great post for all the new visitors, viewers of GMA who would be swamping blog, full of suggestions about things to do […]
A few questions and answers
Here are some answers to questions posted in comments by a reader named Jessy. I mention some difficulties. Please feel free to weigh in with solutions: What are you feeding your dog? Frankie is the weirdest eater you ever met. She’s skinny but only eats when she is famished. If you give a piece of food that is too […]
The less oil we have, the more coal we’ll use—eek!
Eugene Linden, in his Op Ed in BusinessWeek, writes: “With global oil production virtually stalled in recent years, controversial predictions that the world is fast approaching maximum petroleum output are looking a bit less controversial…But climate change activists have nothing to cheer about. The U.S. is completely unprepared for peak oil, as it’s called, and the wrenching adjustments it would […]
Be kind to the planet by being kind to yourself
Before we get to the body of today’s post, I wanted to let you know that I’ve decided to remove the appeal for contributions to the running of the blog. My reasons for trying it were best summed up by a commenter calling herself Tiny Inkling who wrote: “I like to imagine he’s using [the contributions] to free himself […]