“Congestion pricing came to a halt after a head-on collision with Albany on Monday,” wrote David Haskell, founder of the New York Bike-Share Project, in an OpEd entitled The Path of Least Congestion in Wednesday’s New York Times. “The New York State Senate decided not to take up Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s plan to charge a fee to drivers entering the […]
Activism and Social Change
How do we protect the planet?
From Peter Barnes’ Capitalism 3.0: “…history has convinced me that representative government can’t adequately protect the interests of ordinary citizens. Even less can it protect the interests of future generations, ecosystems, and nonhuman species. The reason is that most—though not all—of the time, government puts the interests of private corporations first. This is a systemic […]
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, […]
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 […]
Cure the planet’s fever
I expect a lot of new visitors here today, so I’m going to devote this post to a quick survey of consumer-related activities that contribute most to the planet’s pressing environmental problems and some measures each of us can take in our own lives to improve things. But before we get to that, let me […]
Giving and impact
Today’s post is by Professor Arthur Brooks (pictured here), director of the non-profit studies program at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Arthur has been a fervent supporter of the No Impact experiment and a great personal morale booster since No Impact started. His ideas on the unnecessary cleft between individual […]
Let there be really cool light
What I feel like telling you about today is the great place I get our low-energy compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) and how you can get them there, too. But first, in case you’ve somehow missed the recent coverage (see here and here, for example), I’m going to shed some light on the subject (oh, the fun of the pun). […]
I’m not dead, so Michelle didn’t kill me
So Michelle and I had the talk about the consumption phase of the project last night, the one I was worrying about yesterday (see If I’m dead tomorrow, you know my wife killed me). But before I get to that I want to add something about the consumption rules that I forgot yesterday. The idea is that we […]