Some truths about my life without the gazillion rules to follow: I don’t like making an impact but I like living in the dark less–the lights are on. All our bulbs are CFL. We buy wind power (and you can too). Nothing is plugged in when it isn’t used. The fridge is on but the […]
Environment
Apropos, first, of nothing and, then, of something
Apropos of nothing: The other night I was lying in bed, being held hostage by my daughter Isabella who insisted she would only go to sleep if I stayed there with her. She was mad that I had made her go to bed at all. She said, “I don’t like you anymore, Daddy.” So we’re […]
Buying small and local vs. supporting green in large
I buy my soap from a lady named Susannah who hand-makes it from beeswax, water and lye and nothing else. For other people, she scents it with essential oils, but when I read that essential oils are being used in such concentration that they are now entering the water and affecting marine wildlife, I asked […]
How to talk to people about human health, happiness and security (or what some people call “the environment”)
I’m in the business of trying to get people to see that we could be happier, healthier and more secure with some adjustments to how we run our country and our lives. How we live our lives affects how we run our country. How we run our country affects how we live our lives. This […]
Steering the difficult course of running an ethical business (namely mine)
Recently a friend of mine, who writes a popular blog of an environmental bent, told me he had decided to close his blog down. The reason is that he is actually a journalist and author and he found that the blog was taking a fair amount of his work day but contributed nothing to his […]
How Christmas turned out for Isabella
(You can read previous writings to do with the effects of consumption on the planet and human security, health and happiness here, here and here.) Anyway, we worried that the daughter of the enviro-freaks–i.e. our nearly 3-year-old Isabella–would suffer for our principles while our adored Gordie and Ellie got to open gifts. We agonized. We […]
An end to e-toxins just a phone call away (please make it)
First off, let me ask you please to forward this post to every New Yorker you know, and ask them to make the calls… Some say that e-waste–trashed computers, cell phones, printers and other gadgets–is becoming one of the biggest toxicity problems facing our culture. In the US, municipal incineration of e-waste is the largest source […]
How to help make the planet a better place for all of us
If you’re reading this early enough and you want to tune in, you can catch me on Good Morning America between 8:30 and 9:00 this morning. As for all the Good Morning America viewers who watched and are now dropping by, welcome! Today’s offering is a list of posts and links about how each of us can make […]