So I got this email today from a woman named Nellie Wieland. I Googled her and she appears to be a professor of philosophy or something like that who has reviewed books by Noam Chomsky. Now, I love Noam Chomsky but only when someone else explains to me what he’s talking about. This is by […]
Environment
A sea of people in NYC
Treehugger predicts that this Saturday, April 14, at 12 noon, New York City will have the biggest environmental event since the first Earth Day in 1970. Get out your blue shirts! Why? Because the New York event, called Sea of People, aims to line up thousands of participants along the predicted climate-change flood lines in […]
Care to join me on Saturday?
Too tired to write a longer post, but in case you’re popping in after watching Colbert–or even if you didn’t tune in–and you wanted to know what I’ll be doing Saturday, April 14, I’m going to my local National Day of Climate Action rally. Want to join in? Find out where your local rally is […]
Oh no, here come the weirdos with the cloths
Here is a scene that repeated itself a hundred times in the beginning of the No Impact project: we sat down in a restaurant, the server came over all smiles, we said hi, picked the paper napkins from the table, handed them to the confused-looking server, said we brought our own, and pulled our clothes from our pockets with […]
A No Impact Man theme song
“People killing, people dying, Children hurt and you hear them crying. Can you practice what you preach And won’t you turn the other cheek? Father, Father, Father help us. Send some guidance from above, Cause people got me, got me questioning: Where is the love? Where is the love? Where is the love? Where is […]
Help. I need to wash.
OK, it’s not that I mean I need help washing—promise! This post is about two separate subjects: help, as in I need some–in the form of a research assistant/intern–and washing, as in a lot of people have been asking how I wash my body and my home environmentally. First, about washing (but if you’re dying to be my intern you […]
Please don’t say it’s a fight
A couple of days ago, Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek’s innovation and design guru, posted on his blog that “We now have two approaches to sustainability—live light on the land and cut back consumption vs. live like the crazy consumer that you are but use different chemistry that recycles, reuses and reinvents stuff.” “Hair-shirt sustainability vs. Go-Go growth sustainability,” he wrote. “Colin […]
The beat of a quieter drummer
A couple of months ago, it started to pour with rain while Isabella rode my shoulders in a backpack-like contraption. There were, surprisingly, plenty of available taxis that day on 6th Avenue, but No Impact means no taxis, so I did my best in a wind-torn wrestling match with our umbrella and I started the […]