Finished the book at last, but in the final few weeks, I discovered that I just couldn’t keep it together to do my family’s food shopping. We temporarily turned back into take out mavens, causing more plastic tub trash in a couple of weeks than in the last couple of years. This begs the question, […]
No Impact Man
No Impact Man hits the Sundance Film Festival
One more day of concentrating on my book folks, but wanted to let you know that the documentary about the No Impact Man project will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein did a wonderful job directing. I’m very excited. You can read a little more about it […]
Open Discussion–Comment free for all
While I take another day on my book, I wanted to give you all a chance to just talk. What’s on your mind? Ask questions. Answer questions. Make comments. Somebody hurry up and be the first to say something. Now then, as for all you readers who get the blog by email, you will actually […]
A one-day book leave
I’m actually turning in the final draft this week. Do you think you guys can do without me for one day while I keep my eye on the ball?
While the governments save the economy, who saves the planet?
While the stock market took another nosedive after news that–guess what?–we’re in a recession, The New York Times last week published a story about how the slump may limit moves on clean energy. According to the story: “From Italy to China, the threat to jobs, profits and government tax revenues posed by the financial crisis has […]
The true cost of our cars
I’ve said before that if our automobiles really make us happy, then to hell with the planet. The thing is, I don’t think they do. Listen: American adults average 72 minutes a day behind the wheel of a car, according to the WorldWatch Institute. That’s more than twice as much time as the average American […]
Christmas with no presents
Here’s the beginning of an article of mine that’s in this month’s Yes! Magazine: If Christmas is about presents, then in 2007, my little family and I had no Christmas. I mean, we had the caroling and the uncle playing the piano and the cousins running around with my three-year-old, Isabella, and the grandfather coaxing her to sit […]
We’ve got something wonderful going on here
In case you haven’t seen, these come via Tuco Rides: Photographer Norbert Rosing planned to take some sunset photos of a group of sled dogs near Churchill, Manitoba, in northern Canada on the Hudson Bay, when from stage left comes a 1200 pound polar bear. The dogs’ owner thinks he’s just about to lose his […]