The good news about global warming in the United States, I think, is that the “deniers,” as they’re called, have now been relegated to the fringe. The candidates from both parties have mitigation strategies (which isn’t to say they are equally good–see this chart). The debate about whether or not there is such a thing […]
Environment
We’ve changed our lifestyles. What about our politicians?
If you’re not from New York, you may think this post doesn’t apply to you. But please bear with me. You’ll see that it applies to us all. This week, we in New York City saw the death of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan–which would have reduced gridlock in New York by charging certain drivers […]
LV GRN: 42 ways to not make trash
In the last, for a while, of the LV GRN posts about how to bring No Impact measures to your own life, I’ve decided to list 42 ways we adopted to avoid making trash. If you’ve been reading for a while, you’ll have seen these before. But I thought the newer readers might like to […]
LV GRN: Why recycling is nowhere near enough
People used to to ask me, essentially, why I was making such a big dig about not making trash during the No Impact project. They’d say, “I mean, it’s recyclable, right?” As Annie Leonard says in Story of Stuff, “Recycling reduces the garbage at [the landfill and incinerator] end and it reduces the pressure to […]
LV GRN: Our life in the trash
Trash tends to be a bit of the underdog of environmental concern these days. Perhaps that is because we think of the issues of trash to be limited to water and air quality problems arising from toxins leaking from landfills and dioxins and other poisons pumped into the air by incinerators (both of which are […]
LV GRN: What am I?
There are readers who like it when I post about the environmental “big picture,” those who like it when I post “individual action tips” and others who like it when I post my “personal experience.” I got to thinking that I might write some posts about where those areas all intersect (as Sharon Astyk often […]
The importance of authenticity in green marketing
I’m taking a little breather today, but will be back Monday. Meanwhile, I wanted to leave the designers and business people in the crowd with a little confirmation about what I’ve been saying regarding transparency and authenticity when it comes to going green. This from the wonderful blog La Marguerite (which quotes an article worth […]
Lifestyle change required
What with Al Gore coming out with his $300 million plan to convince politicians to take climate change seriously, and people like the New York Times’ Andrew Revkin writing about the big problem in solving global warming being the “technology gap,” I’ve been feeling like my little lifestyle experiment No Impact Man and my message […]