As you know, I’m on vacation this week and am putting up old posts and other people’s wise words. This is one of my own, from February, that I thought might be helpful to new visitors to No Impact Man. Note that since I wrote this post and tried the methods within, I find I’m […]
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Making bread
First of all, it took me all day yesterday to figure out why no one was commenting on yesterday’s post. I felt forgotten. Ignored (just kidding). Then, I realized I’d managed to turn comments off by mistake. Sorry! If you’d still like to comment on my thoughts that came when immediate gratification had gone, I’d love to hear. […]
Flying less, driving less, using less power
First of all, a warm welcome to the viewers from ABC’s Good Morning America and Nightline who are here for the first time. For those who want to know a little more about my project, please noodle around on the blog. For good background, you can start by reading this. Today’s post, though, is less about my No […]
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 […]
Cure the planet’s fever
I expect a lot of new visitors here today, so I’m going to devote this post to a quick survey of consumer-related activities that contribute most to the planet’s pressing environmental problems and some measures each of us can take in our own lives to improve things. But before we get to that, let me […]
Do a dance for yogurt that isn’t in plastic tubs
What do you get when you combine no throwaway packaging with local food only? Not too many tasty treats, I can tell you. So the other night, I trundled along to a party thrown by the environmental magazine Plenty and bumped into David Kistner, founder of the Green Apple Cleaners, which uses CO2 instead of […]