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Growing your own food, Japanese style

May 8, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

First thing, wanted to remind you that I also twitter here and I friend my readers on Facebook here. Onwards… As you may know, Japan has lower per capita carbon emissions than any Western European country. For that reason, I asked my friend, Sean Saskamoto, who recently moved to Japan and who blogs at I’d […]

Filed Under: Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Family and Friendship, Society Tagged With: gardening, Japan, local food, sean sakamoto

Urban gardening time is here!

April 28, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

During the No Impact project, I helped my friend Mayer Vishner with his vegetable plot in the Laguardia Community Gardens here in New York. For those of you who don’t know, a community garden is a public piece of land broken up into a checkerboard of plots and a different gardener tends to each plot. […]

Filed Under: Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Society

What is true progress?

April 17, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Because of my stance on consumption, I get accused sometimes of being anti-progress. This is interesting to me, because I am very pro-progress. I want so much progress. It’s just that I’m not sure that the societally accepted definition of progress is correct. Heading in the same direction we’ve been heading for the past 100 […]

Filed Under: Best of No Impact Man, Environment, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning, Society Tagged With: consumption, progress, Tolstoy

The difference between hell and heaven

April 16, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

My dentist Gary is one of my best friends, and I visited his office today. I joked with him, “Why do you have to make your living by tearing my mouth apart?” Actually, he’s great at his job, but that’s another story (email me if you’re looking for a great New York dentist). The point […]

Filed Under: Best of No Impact Man, Environment, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Family and Friendship, Society Tagged With: economic collapse, environment, global warming, good dentists, heaven, hell

To participate in the real economy

April 8, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

This is a guest post by my friend Sean Sakamoto who writes the blog I’d Rather Be In Japan. You can read his previous post on No Impact Man here. “Thrift can take lasting hold of a consumer society, to disastrous effect.” —The New York Times I keep reading about how saving is the worst […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: consumption, economy, saving, thrift

What makes me happiest doesn’t cost the planet

April 6, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

My little girl Isabella and I just spent the weekend at a gathering at the Providence Zen Center, the head temple of the Kwan Um School of Zen, where I meditate. There were five or six other kids there and from the moment we arrived Isabella ran around having fun and paying almost no attention […]

Filed Under: Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Relationships, Family and Friendship, Society Tagged With: community, environmental living

To save the planet, we’ll have to bury the party political hatchet

March 16, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I’m sick of inter-party animosity. I’m tired of progressives who won’t listen to a person who identifies as conservative. I’m tired of conservatives who won’t listen to a liberal. How unlikely is it, anyway, that either the classical liberal or conservative ideologies provides the best policy solution for every situation? Doesn’t it make sense that […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: climate change, COP 15, global warming, partisanship, UN Climate conference

Some good news, some bad

February 17, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Yesterday I watched a video of Harvard psychologist Daniel Goleman’s talk at the 2007 TED (you can watch it here). Goleman discussed brain research which says we are hardwired for empathy and compassion. If we see someone in pain, we automatically want to help. Unless we aren’t paying attention. Goleman said that we get so […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: Chris Field, climate change, compassion, Daniel Goleman, global warming

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