The way I see it, if a company makes a product with toxins in it, then that company should take responsibility for making sure that, once the products are used, the toxins don’t end up in the environment. About as likely as a dog cleaning up after itself, right? Maybe. But I’ll tell you this: if a company adopted […]
No Impact Man
To hell with the polar bears
I don’t really mean to hell with the polar bears, of course, but I got you reading, right? What I am thinking more and more about is the fact that we have present environmental problems that are already affecting the health of all of us–and most especially our children. In particular, I’ve been thinking about […]
Time for reconciliation
Because I had no religious upbringing, I like to say that I belong to all religions. I read texts from Judaisim, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, humanism and others, too. What grabs me in each is the call to mystery, the reminder that fundamentally, my existence is bigger than I understand. That is important to me […]
Splish splash, I was taking a bath
I get to the Hudson River near Battery Park City at, like, 8:00 AM on Saturday morning for the Manhattan Island Foundation’s “Cove to Cove” swim in the Hudson River (read the background here and here). It’s freezing. Well, not freezing, but you know, if you’re going to swim in some of the same water that New York City annually […]
Two kids in an emergency room
Everyone wants to know about my sponsored swim in the Hudson on Saturday and it’s coming—I promise—but what’s more on my mind is the ambulance ride and the emergency room visit that came the night before: About ten o’clock on Friday, Isabella is in bed asleep and a funny noise comes from her and I pick her up and […]
How to save the planet in five easy paragraphs
Click the illustration to enlarge If you happen to know any presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens or dictators who are interested in saving the world, please email the following to them. It is my easy guide to averting climate catastrophe, a quick summary of “Carbon Crisis” by Bill McKibben, which included the graphic above and […]
Saturday I swim…
…in the Manhattan Island Foundation’s “Cove to Cove” swim in New York Harbor, and I just wanted to let you know why it is that I am choosing that my sponsorship money goes to the Bronx-based Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ). It has nothing to do with polar bears or ice caps or people suffering from rising water […]
Living in gratitude instead of desire
Click the image above for a larger version This could be totally wrong, but I’m guessing that the decline of religious life in our culture has brought with it a decline in gratitude. Not that I am laying some sort of a religious trip on everyone—I am the first to cop to not maintaining an attitude of thankfulness. But […]