I’m not one for delivering bad news here on the blog. I think it’s counterproductive. But I’m also not one for pretending to be happy when I’m not. And tonight, I’m not. It’s American behavior at the UN conference on climate change that’s getting me down. It looks like fairly certain that the governments around […]
Environment
Why I won’t sleep tonight
Stop the climate wrecking at Bali
You probably know that the world’s governments have gathered in Bali for a UN conference to begin negotiating a global greenhouse gas emissions treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. You may also know that the United States, the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases, failed to sign the Kyoto Protocol. […]
The garbage game
Here’s a little fun: “What did you throw in a trash can today? You probably did not give it much thought. But this week New Yorkers threw away 64,000 tons of garbage. That comes out to almost 7 billion pounds of garbage every year. Whisking off the detritus of our daily lives costs the city more than […]
Update from the land of the gray
Readers have been clamoring for updates on how we’re living in the No Impact household now that the official year is over. We’re in the stage, as I’ve said, where we’re no longer accountable to the rules but only to our consciences. First of all, let me say that the philosophy I hope to adhere […]
No Impact reentry and the lie of stuff
One thing Michelle and I really looked forward to as the No Impact year of environmental living came to an end was going to the movies. I’m not even a hundred percent sure why we cut out movies. Partly because we consumed them like, well, consumers. Partly because I was more interested in forms of […]
Where me and my No Impact Man blog go from here
One of the things I realized during my year of attempting to have no net environmental impact is that it really shouldn’t be so hard. By this I don’t mean to say that it was hard and miserable for me. If you’ve been a regular reader then you know that, for the most part, I […]
Picking up poo for Christmas and other sustainable gifts
I’m a big fan of Rachel of the original San Francisco Compact (the buy nothing new group), and not only because she is the only person I’ve ever known who has given, as a Christmas gift, the promise to pick up a certain number of piles of other people’s dog poop. To contextualize, Rachel walks […]