I always go on about the fact that sustainability 2.0 means not just using fewer resources but using resources in ways that improve human quality of life. If we’re not using the resources to improve life, then why are we using them at all? In other words, what’s important? Well, it’s spring. The below video […]
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Take heart! A least one species bounces back from near extinction
We know, of course, that the advent of the automobile in New York City caused the virtual extinction of stick-ball, neighbors sitting together on stoops, fresh air and children playing in neighborhood streets. What some may not realize, however, is that New York City automobiles also brought one of the world’s largest mammalian bipeds–and I […]
A list of companies who supported lies about global warming
Please digg this post or email it in order to spread it around as a way to show the below companies that you refuse to accept their distorting our democracy and engangering us in the process. On April 23, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times published a story proving conclusively that the so-called Global […]
Urban gardening time is here!
During the No Impact project, I helped my friend Mayer Vishner with his vegetable plot in the Laguardia Community Gardens here in New York. For those of you who don’t know, a community garden is a public piece of land broken up into a checkerboard of plots and a different gardener tends to each plot. […]
Keeping cool with no air conditioner
People always ask what we still do from our no impact year, and one thing is that we got rid of both our air conditioners. There are seven or eight nights in the summer where it’s really hot in New York City, but we keep a tub of cold water ready to hop into and […]
About the new No Impact Project
You may recall that we are looking for an associate director for the new No Impact Project (click here to read it). I had promised to offer some explanation about what the No Impact Project will be. PS The Fledgling Fund, mentioned at the end of the clip, is the generous founding funder of the […]
One barrier to change
I was talking to one student at Phillips Academy today. She said that she tries not to care. She said it hurts too much to worry about things that seem so much bigger than you–“like the whole planet.” So she tries not to care. How do we get people not to try not to care?
I’m so green I even recycle my blog posts!
I took the train up to Andover to give a talk at Phillips Academy and so won’t have time to write a new blog post tonight. But if you haven’t checked out the discussion by commenters on yesterday’s post about whether happiness is really the aim of life, you should (click here). What a great […]