I wanted to let everyone know about a nationwide event my No Impact Project is undertaking with the Center for a New American Dream. During the two-weeks of the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (December 7th-18th), we’re bringing people together to talk about the impact of holiday spending on their lives and the […]
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Join your local 350 action on Saturday
This Saturday, October 24, more than 4,000 events in 170 countries will take place as part of 350's International Day of Climate Action — all calling upon world leaders to reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere to a safe level of 350 parts per million. It's the largest collective display of action to fight climate […]
Join No Impact Week video discussions here!
Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger.com, is participating in No Impact week, starting October 18, and he wrote on the Huffington Post: Instead of edicts – depriving you of your car or forbidding drinking your latte from a paper cup – the No-Impact week brought to you by Colin Beavan and Huff Po is instead the opportunity […]
No Impact Week: Taking the environment into our own hands
As you may have heard, thousands of people have now signed up to participate in the No Impact Project’s week-long experiment in environmental living, which begins on October 18, hosted on the Huffington Post. That so many people are willing to make such a deep commitment demonstrates to themselves, to their neighbors, and to their elected officials that the […]
Join thousands who are trying No Impact for a week!
Some of you will already know that the new non-profit No Impact Project exists to help people choose lifestyle adaptations that are both better for them and better for the planet. In other words, it takes a benefit-based approach (rather than a deprivation-based approach) to environmental living. The No Impact Project also provides non-partisan tools […]
Join my virtual book talk on Sunday
First off, sorry I’ve been a little inactive on the blog lately. So many talks to give! But speaking of talks, I wanted to let you know that I’ll be giving one right here on the blog on Sunday, Oct 11 at 5PM EST. I’ll be using this really cool technology called Vokle which will […]
Welcome to new readers!
To learn about what the No Impact Man year was all about, go here. To buy the book (on 100% post-consumer paper or the Kindle edition), go here. To join over 1,000 others in your own one-week version of the No Impact experiment beginning on October 18, go here. To see where the documentary version […]
Join me at the US capitol on Wednesday!!!
That’s right! You can join me and the rest of the Climate Riders as we ride into the US Capitol on today (Wednesday, September 30th!). Join us and pedal with 100+ Climate Riders, 12 ambassadors, and supporters from the DC area to bicycle the final three miles of our 300 mile journey from New York City. We’ll pedal […]