Designer friends tell me that when they design a product or system, it's important to ask the right "design question." Asking the right design question is perhaps most import when it comes to making sure that your product or system does the job. So when it comes to designing cities or cultures or economies or […]
Environment
Join No Impact Week video discussions here!
Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger.com, is participating in No Impact week, starting October 18, and he wrote on the Huffington Post: Instead of edicts – depriving you of your car or forbidding drinking your latte from a paper cup – the No-Impact week brought to you by Colin Beavan and Huff Po is instead the opportunity […]
No Impact Week: Taking the environment into our own hands
As you may have heard, thousands of people have now signed up to participate in the No Impact Project’s week-long experiment in environmental living, which begins on October 18, hosted on the Huffington Post. That so many people are willing to make such a deep commitment demonstrates to themselves, to their neighbors, and to their elected officials that the […]
The easiest way to change people’s behavior? By making it fun!
Challenging Stephen Colbert to go No Impact
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Join thousands who are trying No Impact for a week!
Some of you will already know that the new non-profit No Impact Project exists to help people choose lifestyle adaptations that are both better for them and better for the planet. In other words, it takes a benefit-based approach (rather than a deprivation-based approach) to environmental living. The No Impact Project also provides non-partisan tools […]
Join my virtual book talk on Sunday
First off, sorry I’ve been a little inactive on the blog lately. So many talks to give! But speaking of talks, I wanted to let you know that I’ll be giving one right here on the blog on Sunday, Oct 11 at 5PM EST. I’ll be using this really cool technology called Vokle which will […]
Welcome to new readers!
To learn about what the No Impact Man year was all about, go here. To buy the book (on 100% post-consumer paper or the Kindle edition), go here. To join over 1,000 others in your own one-week version of the No Impact experiment beginning on October 18, go here. To see where the documentary version […]