The No Impact Experiment, brought to you by the No Impact Project, is a one-week carbon cleanse. It is a chance for you to see what a difference no-impact living can have on your quality of life. It’s not about giving up creature comforts but an opportunity for you to test whether the modern “conveniences” you take for […]
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Global warming or no, a renewable energy economy would bring a better world
Things are not going well there as you’ll see by the video below. That’s too bad for the American economy, for our prospects as world leader, and for our national security (even the US Army now believes that the geopolitical instability brought about by climate change will be one of the biggest threats to our […]
Finally doing what I can about the Copenhagen climate talks
I Skyped with a good friend who is in Copenhagen participating in the climate negotiations today. She told me she woke up crying. Yesterday, a large group of some 70 developing countries walked out of the climate talks because they felt that an unfair responsibility for carbon reductions was falling on poor countries. Luckily, they […]
No Impact Project needs interns
From the No Impact Project: Project The No Impact Project (NIP) was conceived by Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, following the success of his blog, book, and film, which chronicle his family’s year-long experiment living a zero-waste lifestyle in New York City. Central to his thesis is the notion that deep-seated individual behavior change leads to both cultural […]
No Impact Man screening and Christmas consumption discussion
From the No Impact Project: Every year, growing numbers of us are unhappy with the shopping frenzy that surrounds the holidays but most of us don’t know how to get off the treadmill. What if we worked together to find another way to celebrate? This holiday season join us in finding more of what matters. […]
My rickshaw returns!!!
As you know, my famous rickshaw was stolen from outside my building. I blogged about its loss. Tonight, I got home and someone (Catherine T) had left a comment on the blog saying they saw it on 8th Street and Broadway. So I went over there, and sure enough! Sadly, it’s pretty screwed up. For […]
Have you seen my stolen rickshaw?
I’m so sad to say that I woke up this morning to find that my faithful old green rickshaw had been stolen from outside our apartment building. This was the rickshaw built for me nearly three years ago by the amazing New York bike genius George Bliss. Because it was during the No Impact Man […]
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