Bringing this conversation back up to the top for those of you who didn’t yet have the chance to comment or read the comments of others. It’s worth wading in… None of the politicians seem to want to discuss the fact that consumption is at the root of our environmental problems. I’d love to hear […]
No Impact Man
The beat of a quieter drummer
From a journal entry I wrote during the No Impact project: A couple of months ago, it started to pour with rain while Isabellarode 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 […]
Al Gore’s good news on climate change
In case you missed Al Gore’s OpEd in yesterday’s New York Times: … Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis. Economists across the spectrum — including Martin […]
Making products so valuable that no one wants to throw them away
Part of why it is hard for business to really embrace deep-green environmental practice is that making profit has always been associated with high material and energy throughput. If they make products that are meant to last, they sell less, and their profits go down. Reduced material throughput, for them, means reduced income–even if it […]
Calling on the President-Elect Obama to make climate an immediate priority
From a blog post by Gillian Caldwell, executive director of 1Sky, about how we can help the President-Elect and our other newly-elected representatives do the right thing on the climate crisis: The results of yesterday’s election are encouraging for our economy and our planet’s future, but we’ll only achieve the change we need by pressing […]
Open Discussion–“We’ve come so far but we have so far to go”
These are words of the new President-Elect Barack Obama. No matter where you lie in the political divide, to see a first and secone family on a stage, one white and one black, representing the coming together of different people, in acknowledgment of the connectedness of us all, is a moment in history that we […]
Do the responsibilities of citizenship end with voting?
I’m writing this at 2:07 EST, here in New York City, on Election Day, November 4. The opinion polls have giving us an intimation of who the next President of the United States will be, but we don’t know for sure. Either way, we are all going to wake up on the morning of November […]
Would we shop the planet’s resources away if there was more fun to be had?
This is a guest post by Ruchira Shah aka Ruchi aka Arduous. I’m a recent transplant to London, and I had plans to check out the neighborhood around Ladbroke Grove. But as I sat riding the Tube, the rain started to pour down, and suddenly an afternoon of walking outdoors didn’t seem like the best […]