Hey Folks, the website for the No Impact Project is up. Designed by Free Range Studios (who did Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff), NoImpactProject.org will be an entry point for those who want explore the principle that a happier planet makes for happier people in their own lives. This is just the beginning. You’ll see […]
Environment
A stunt or not a stunt. That is NOT the question.
Last week, Elizabeth Kolbert, a respected New Yorker journalist who writes admirably about issues to do with our climate catastrophe and the environment, wrote a scathing attack on my book, No Impact Man. Sadly, casualties on the battlefield of Kolbert’s wrath included not only me, but also the work of James McKinnen and Alisa Smith (authors of 100 Mile […]
Thank you, Mr Edelstein!
In an article called No Impact Man and the Idiotocracy, New York Magazine film critic wrote on his blog The Projectionist: That brings back a time. In the Eighties, I shared an apartment in New York with my dear friend Bill McKibben, around the time he was getting in touch with his inner Thoreau. (He […]
Today, No Impact Man hits the bookstores!
And it only took three years!!! To have it shipped by an independent bookseller. To buy from Amazon. To buy from BN.com.
Why I’m fond of saying wisdom trumps science
When one group of scientists first said smoking was bad for you, the tobacco industry funded another group of researchers to say the science was inconclusive. When dietitians began saying saturated animal fats hurt your heart, the beef and dairy industry rolled out their own group of gurus saying “not so bad.” And now that […]
Your green lifestyle helps convince people of global warming
According to Rodale.com, “the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change studied decades of research on environmental issues and human behavior, and came up with the factors that are preventing people from taking immediate action” on global warming. The study discusses six factors, but the two that are most interesting […]
The new standard on climate change
For a long time now, James Hansen, chief NASA climatologist has been something of a voice in the dark, saying that, to avoid cataclysmic climate change, we must stabilize the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at no more than 350 parts per million (ppm). That is to say, essentially, that for every one […]
To change the world I have to change myself
A little snippet from my book: I’ve had this hammered home to me lately–that if I want to manifest peace in the world, I have to find peace in my own mind. They say a peaceful mind makes a peaceful man. A peaceful man makes a peaceful family. A peaceful family makes a peaceful village. […]