It’s 8:00 PM on Thursday night. The high point of my day was dancing with Isabella to a 70s group called Brewer and Shipley, my favorite when I was eight. Isabella and I love to dance together. I dread when we can’t use the stereo when we finally turn the electricity off in a couple of months. I’m looking […]
No Impact Man
Just a couple of snippets
[Sorry, but I forgot to mention when I first put this post up that I will be on PRI’s Fair Game tonight (March 29). You can listen here at 8:00 PM EST if you’re interested. You can find the archived show if you missed it.] You know how I’ve written that plastic bags are the devil, […]
Wake up and smell the compost (joking)
I’m going to talk about the why, where, and how of the box of decomposing food scraps in my kitchen. But first off, Time Out New York Kids, the local parenting magazine, will be running my Wednesday posts on their site as a way to apprise parents of green issues. Welcome, new readers! No Impact […]
This story ends badly
Back in August, 2006, we had a mini No Impact experiment for a week to help us decided if we could do it for a year. I pulled out my bike—the one I use now to get around—and dusted it off. This is my journal entry about my first real ride (the picture, by the way, comes from […]
Today is answer the critics day
Now then, I’ve had an incredible amount of support for the project from all over the world the last few days, and I’ve had rather a large amount of, well, hate mail. Someone wants to spray Michelle and I with an Uzi and get Isabella adopted by Angelina Jolie, for example.On the other hand, there have been […]
A million questions—just a few answers
So many people emailed me yesterday, thanks! I’m answering your questions here instead of by email so everyone can see. I’ll answer more in subsequent posts. Also, thanks to everyone for all the comments on the posts. I have to read through them still, but I’ll try to answer questions there soon, too. Can you […]
Cure the planet’s fever
I expect a lot of new visitors here today, so I’m going to devote this post to a quick survey of consumer-related activities that contribute most to the planet’s pressing environmental problems and some measures each of us can take in our own lives to improve things. But before we get to that, let me […]
Giving and impact
Today’s post is by Professor Arthur Brooks (pictured here), director of the non-profit studies program at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Arthur has been a fervent supporter of the No Impact experiment and a great personal morale booster since No Impact started. His ideas on the unnecessary cleft between individual […]