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Purpose and Meaning

On buying more than status

September 25, 2008 by Colin Beavan

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 […]

Filed Under: Best of No Impact Man, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning Tagged With: Colin Beavan, consumption, environmental living, green living

Business People: Forget the fallacy of the zero sum game

August 21, 2008 by Colin Beavan

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 […]

Filed Under: Best of No Impact Man, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning, Society Tagged With: business, green business, happiness, marketing, zero sum game

LV GRN: What am I?

April 7, 2008 by Colin Beavan

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 […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning

Little old me

March 13, 2008 by Colin Beavan

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning, Society Tagged With: climate change, environmental policy, global warming

Forced to face the big questions

March 10, 2008 by Colin Beavan

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Environment, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning Tagged With: animal cruelty, beef industry

Germane (at least to me)

December 26, 2007 by Colin Beavan

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 […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning Tagged With: Death, dying, green living, priorities, values

What am I for?

July 19, 2007 by Colin Beavan

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? […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, Personal and General Writing, Purpose and Meaning

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