What follows is a passage from the draft of the book about my No Impact project. I thought you might enjoy a glimpse into my progress. The draft, by the way, is turned in and I await comments from my editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. This passage is about some experiences we had in […]
Purpose and Meaning
Business People: Forget the fallacy of the zero sum game
Zero sum game: A situation or interaction in which one participant’s gains result only from another’s equivalent losses. Sometimes, we imagine business works that way. But what a sad, sorry way to look at the world. And if we do look at the world that way, does it make us happy? Let me explain: The […]
LV GRN: What am I?
There are readers who like it when I post about the environmental “big picture,” those who like it when I post “individual action tips” and others who like it when I post my “personal experience.” I got to thinking that I might write some posts about where those areas all intersect (as Sharon Astyk often […]
Little old me
A few weeks ago, at NYU, I was asked to give a short talk in response to a talk by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute (you may remember that Michael and I had an email debate here on the blog a few weeks ago). You can watch my little talk by […]
Forced to face the big questions
For the longest time, for me, it was easy to live by default. To go along living like everyone else. Not to question. But the reason I started the No Impact project was because the crisis in human safety, security and health as it relates to the grave problems of our planetary habitat forced me […]
Germane (at least to me)
There is only one thing we will be remembered for when we die–how we lived. What makes me feel proud of myself? What makes me feel warm? What makes me feel caring? What makes me sleep well at night? What makes me able to look my friends and family squarely in the eye? How, in […]
What am I for?
There are some big questions that used to keep me up at night when I was a kid, before I made the mistake of learning how to ignore them. Why was I born? Where is it that I’m hurrying to before I die? What is the thing in this life that has true value? Does anything endure? […]