First thing, wanted to remind you that you can follow me on twitter here and friend me on on Facebook here. Onwards… As you may know, Japan has lower per capita carbon emissions than any Western European country. For that reason, I asked my friend, Sean Sakamoto, who recently moved to Japan and who blogs […]
Environment
Figuring out how to live–Part 2
People often ask me how we are supposed to cope with the tragedy of the cliff of climate change and the fact that humanity seems ready to charge straight off it. How do you live in the face of that? One time, I went to a spiritual workshop at the Esalen Institute. The man in […]
Figuring out how to live
Figuring out how to live. Isn’t that what we’re all trying to do? To that point, here is some correspondence from my Facebook page to do with someone trying to figure out how to live in their own special circumstances: To Colin and friends: How do I become No Impact with an Autistic son? He eats […]
No Impact Man’s environmental how-tos
I thought it might fun to feature some of the old posts on the blog that give explicit directions on how to do things ecologically. Here they are: Cut out home heating oil–Japanese Style Get your child to eat almost any vegetable Get news about No Impact happenings Skip the work travel, have a more […]
My rickshaw returns!!!
As you know, my famous rickshaw was stolen from outside my building. I blogged about its loss. Tonight, I got home and someone (Catherine T) had left a comment on the blog saying they saw it on 8th Street and Broadway. So I went over there, and sure enough! Sadly, it’s pretty screwed up. For […]
Have you seen my stolen rickshaw?
I’m so sad to say that I woke up this morning to find that my faithful old green rickshaw had been stolen from outside our apartment building. This was the rickshaw built for me nearly three years ago by the amazing New York bike genius George Bliss. Because it was during the No Impact Man […]
New Dream Request
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Put the fun back in the holidays–spend less, enjoy more
I wanted to let everyone know about a nationwide event my No Impact Project is undertaking with the Center for a New American Dream. During the two-weeks of the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (December 7th-18th), we’re bringing people together to talk about the impact of holiday spending on their lives and the […]