I don’t really mean to hell with the polar bears, of course, but I got you reading, right? What I am thinking more and more about is the fact that we have present environmental problems that are already affecting the health of all of us–and most especially our children. In particular, I’ve been thinking about […]
Activism and Social Change
How to save the planet in five easy paragraphs
Click the illustration to enlarge If you happen to know any presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens or dictators who are interested in saving the world, please email the following to them. It is my easy guide to averting climate catastrophe, a quick summary of “Carbon Crisis” by Bill McKibben, which included the graphic above and […]
Saturday I swim…
…in the Manhattan Island Foundation’s “Cove to Cove” swim in New York Harbor, and I just wanted to let you know why it is that I am choosing that my sponsorship money goes to the Bronx-based Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ). It has nothing to do with polar bears or ice caps or people suffering from rising water […]
Sometimes it’s hard
This afternoon I got an email from Michelle: “What should we do about dinner tonight? I think we might be out of food.” She was right, we were. Yesterday I forgot to go to the farmers’ market, and today it was a choice between picking up food at our CSA (community supported agriculture group) or […]
The positive impact of positive impact
It’s impossible to reduce one’s negative environmental impact to zero, so the conceit of the No Impact project has always been to reduce our negative impact as much as possible and then to increase our positive impact. In other words, we reduce the harm we do to the planet and increase the good we do in the hope that, […]
Our squatters’ park on Seventh Avenue
Here it is: the little park we made last Friday on Seventh Avenue, right outside the Whole Foods on 24th Street, which has no place for it customers to sit and eat. As you can see, they came and ate with us instead! Over 100 people hanging out in a 12 by 8 foot park […]
What makes biking so cool
If you read this blog regularly then you know that the enforced biking of this project is one of the happiest adaptations we’ve made. We get to exercise, go places wouldn’t otherwise, get there faster and just plain have fun. That’s why I dedicated my spot on Good Morning America today to biking. But it’s not just me who […]
Time to make a splash (with your help)
As you know, the idea of the No Impact project is to reduce our negative impact and increase our positive impact in order to have no net environmental impact. Of course, the scientists will tell you that this doesn’t work, but it isn’t intended to work so much scientifically as it is to work philosophically. […]