This little essay is a work in progress. It may is a little rough, but I’m letting you have it all the same. I guess, when it comes down to it, what I’m trying to say is that the cost of living and leisure time rewards of environmental living are harder to reap if you […]
Environment
The planet’s most important number stars in a two-minute cartoon
May Boeve of 350.org, the organization that is trying to let the entire planet’s population know that atmospheric carbon dioxide needs to be stabilized at no more than 350 parts per million (ppm), wrote to me today. She wrote: “The video is live… Feel free to send it out. The cat is out of the […]
Why your business needs to listen to me…
… because a new report out from the major PR firm Porter Novelli on the market influence of deep green folks says so. Well, not just that you should listen to me, but people like me. And like the readers and commenters on this blog. We’re the people who are willing to change our lives […]
LV GRN: How to eat seafood sustainably
I’ve been writing the section of my book on the sustainable eating part of No Impact Man, and I came across this post on the blog. I thought it would interest those of you who call for more posts on individual lifestyle choices. A fish is an animal that livED in the sea… at least […]
Can we save ourselves without a connection to the natural world?
In a 2005 paper published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, authors F. Stephan Mayer and Cynthia MacPherson Franz of Oberlin College argue that the more connection a person (or presumably a culture) feels to nature, the more likely they are to live sustainably and to support political policy that sustains our planetary habitat. They […]
Saving myself by saving the world
In my my last post, I suggested that readers, as a personal experiment, try getting actively involved in our democracy by calling their Congressional representative just to see how it felt. The results were amazing and I’m not talking numbers of people who made the call. What I’m talking about is how, pretty much to […]
We changed the world! We made a difference! We did this! Let’s do more!
I’m going to ask you to take what may well be your first political action at the end of this post. THIS MEANS YOU, TOO, MOM!!! It’s going to mean a phone call. It’s going to take less than two minutes. And then I’m going to ask that you come back here to the blog […]
LV GRN: Slimy pets to eat your garbage and entertain your kids
Some of you will have seen this before, but for the newcomers in the crowd… When I first told my wife Michelle I was going to keep worms in a bin to turn our food scraps from garbage into compost, she said no way. She was like “Worms in my kitchen? Forget it.” But guess what? We have […]