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No Impact Man’s Top Ten Eco-Lifestyle Changes

May 29, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

For more ideas and ways to join a community of people who are searching for happier, more eco-friendly lives, got to NoImpactProject.org. 1. Stop eating beef. Worldwide, beef production contributes more substantially to climate change than the entire transportation sector. Plus, a diet with no or less beef is better for you anyway. 2. Give […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, How To, No Impact Man Tagged With: biking, bottled water, climate change, greenhouse gas, living green, vegetarianism, waste

A great visit with NY State Senator Klein–thanks to you

October 15, 2008 by Colin Beavan

If you’ve been reading the blog you’ll remember that I had a near death experience with a black Mercedes Benz on my bike. The driver said some angry swear words at me, and then I discovered he was a New York state senator. Poor guy. I called him to task for it on the blog […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: biking, Senator Jeff Klein, Transportation Alterntives, transportation policy, walking

Do cars make us fat?

October 3, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Click on the above image to enlarge it. Look at the graphs. The red line shows the rates of obesity for various countries. The green line shows the percentage of trips made by walking, cycling and public transit (as opposed to cars). What you can see is that the less the citizens of a country […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: biking, global warming, obesity, public transit, transportation systems, walking

You’re in charge of saving the world!!!

September 15, 2008 by Colin Beavan

When I allow myself to lapse into know-it-all-ism, it is a mistake. In fact, I don’t know the answers to this catastrophe that threatens our health, happiness and security as it depends upon our planetary habitat. And I’ve never met anyone else who knows the answers either. What I hope to do with this blog […]

Filed Under: Best of No Impact Man, Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: biking, climate change, individual action

If you’d like to ditch the car but worry about emergencies

August 29, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Suppose you’d like to commit to leaving your car in the driveway or getting rid of it altogether and instead making your commute by foot, bike, carpool or public transit. You want to save the money, skip the traffic jams, get the exercise, cause fewer greenhouse gas emissions, and have less stress. It’s just that […]

Filed Under: Career and Work Life, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: biking, carpooling, climate change, commuting, global warming, greenhouse gas, public transit, walking

How to live a $4 a gallon lifestyle in the coming $5 a gallon world

June 18, 2008 by Colin Beavan

First, a bit of business. I wanted to let those of you who subscribe to the blog by email or RSS reader know that we have a very active and interesting commenting community. You may want to come have a look, either to leave comments of your own or simply to read the informative comments […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, How To, No Impact Man Tagged With: biking, carbon emissions, carpooling, commuting, driving, four-day work week, gas prices, greenhouse gas, mass transit, ride sharing, walking

A bike races a car and wins

June 11, 2008 by Colin Beavan

You may remember that bicycling took the place of mechanized boxes as our choice of sustainable transportation during the No Impact project. In fact, we’re still loving our bikes. Anyway, once a year, Transportation Alternatives, which advocates taking the New York City streets from the cars and giving them to the people, runs its commuter […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: biking, transit, transportation alternatives

Lady Liberty ditches her automobile boyfriend

March 25, 2008 by Colin Beavan

The other week, I had lunch with Transportation Alternatives (TA) Executive Director Paul Steely White and I told him about my recent blog posts discussing how both the planet and the people could be happier if we built villages instead of suburbs and public transportation networks instead of highways. I mentioned that there had been […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: biking, environmental activism, local food, locavore, sustainable transportation

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