One of the things I’m into is cool tools that allow people to easily take environmental action. What if you wanted to recruit volunteers get trees planted in your neighborhood? Or if you wanted to clean the trash off your local riverbank? What if, on the other hand, you wanted to join other volunteers to […]
No Impact Man
Good cause. Cool art. You can help.
You may know WorldChanging, the extra cool website I sometimes write for that helps lead design thinking when it comes to making both people and the planet happier. Their mission: “WorldChanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it’s just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving.”Well, […]
Forget the stuff. Let’s just get happy.
A quote from a TED talk given by Dan Gilbert, the Harvard professor and author of Stumbling on Happiness: Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted. Synthetic happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness […]
Why each person’s personal choices matter
Sometimes people say to me that what they do can’t affect the whole planet’s health so why should they even try? But if all us tried, well, that would make a big difference, right? So the other day, I was standing at the crosswalk with quite a crowd. The sign said don’t walk but there […]
Environmental conundrum
You may remember that we got a community garden plot of our own this year. The rub was that the person who had the plot before us had allowed a young tree to take root in it (you aren’t supposed to let trees grow in the garden), which made it unusable for growing vegetables. The […]
Growing your own food, Japanese style
First thing, wanted to remind you that I also twitter here and I friend my readers 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 Saskamoto, who recently moved to Japan and who blogs at I’d […]
Keeping kids healthy by eating local and unprocessed food
A big part of the No Impact project was to eat only local, seasonal, unpackaged food. That meant, basically, lots of fresh vegetables. Michelle and I both lost a lot of weight. As though to prove how good eating a local-food diet is for kids, too, BusinessWeek writer Cathy Arnst has posted a story, which […]
You, me and our elected politicians
So much of the No Impact Man project was about finding a way to feel as though I could make a difference. Blog reader Jen Abrams told me that she read that Greenpa has personally met and talked to all the local and state politicians that represent him. I’m curious: Do you know your elected […]