…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 […]
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Park(ing) Day
In case you were wondering what I’ll be doing Friday, as part of the positive impact part of the project, I will be squatting in a New York City parking space and, with a group of friends, transforming it into a mini-park as part of an effort to demonstrate what cities could be if they were dedicated […]
Time to make a splash (with your help)
As you know, the idea of the No Impact project is to reduce our negative impact and increase our positive impact in order to have no net environmental impact. Of course, the scientists will tell you that this doesn’t work, but it isn’t intended to work so much scientifically as it is to work philosophically. […]
The point of it all
Sometimes people tell me that they are very concerned about the environment but that they don’t feel their efforts can make the slightest difference. I like to tell a mushy story my friend told me about a little girl on the beach. Thousands of starfish have been washed up by a rip tide. They are dying in the sun. […]
A sea of people in NYC
Treehugger predicts that this Saturday, April 14, at 12 noon, New York City will have the biggest environmental event since the first Earth Day in 1970. Get out your blue shirts! Why? Because the New York event, called Sea of People, aims to line up thousands of participants along the predicted climate-change flood lines in […]
Care to join me on Saturday?
Too tired to write a longer post, but in case you’re popping in after watching Colbert–or even if you didn’t tune in–and you wanted to know what I’ll be doing Saturday, April 14, I’m going to my local National Day of Climate Action rally. Want to join in? Find out where your local rally is […]
Help. I need to wash.
OK, it’s not that I mean I need help washing—promise! This post is about two separate subjects: help, as in I need some–in the form of a research assistant/intern–and washing, as in a lot of people have been asking how I wash my body and my home environmentally. First, about washing (but if you’re dying to be my intern you […]