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Environment
What will it take to save the world?
This is a guest post by Leslie Berliant, blogger and editor at Celsias.com. Let’s give her a big No Impact Man welcome with lots of comments. Do you agree with the scenarios she imagines? Would you be willing to deal with them? Or do you imagine happier possibilities? “The most recent science tells us that […]
Reusable containers and the two-way customer relationship
The way I see it, reusable containers have the tremendous potential for helping companies develop a two-way relationship with customers. Like Ronnybrook Farm, where I get milk. I buy from them because they’re local and because they use returnable bottles. A quart of milk from them is $3.25 including a $1 deposit. You go back […]
Do you want this man in charge of your drinking water?
A while back I wrote a post called “When what’s happening to gas happens to water,” about how companies are buying up water rights and looking forward to the day when clean drinking water is sparse and the price goes through the roof. I wrote, “You see, it’s not just about the plastic bottles. It’s […]
When citizens roar
This is a photo, courtesy of the New York Times, of 100,000 South Koreans demonstrating in the streets of Seoul on Tuesday. What is so important to them that they turn out in such vast numbers? Impending war? No. Massive unemployment? No. Rising energy prices? Not even. They demonstrated over the safety of their hamburgers. […]
A bike races a car and wins
You may remember that bicycling took the place of mechanized boxes as our choice of sustainable transportation during the No Impact project. In fact, we’re still loving our bikes. Anyway, once a year, Transportation Alternatives, which advocates taking the New York City streets from the cars and giving them to the people, runs its commuter […]
Should God have faith in us?
One privilege bestowed on me by writing this blog is the number of emails I get from all over the world, in general, and from people of different religions, in particular. I have a faith of a certain kind and I enjoy talking about the dependence of human health, happiness and security on the well-being […]
Strangling right whales and strangling the plan to save them
This, from a CNN article, makes me desperately sad: “[Right] whales are among the most endangered species on the planet, with only about 300 of them still alive. But a measure aimed at protecting them is snarled and stalled in bureaucracy.” “That measure is a proposal from U.S. government scientists to require commercial ships to slow to 10 […]