Yesterday, you may have read, I posted about how No Impact Man lives once the rules of the No Impact Man project cease to exist. I called myself low impact man in that post, but I’m sticking with my original moniker. The ironies are just too precious. Anyway, one thing I brought up is the […]
climate change
Don’t save the planet
The title is unabashedly stolen from a post by George Marshall on Climate Change Denial. His point is that begging the world’s population to “save the planet” is a downer and not a message that will ever translate into real social change. He’s right, and that’s one of the reasons why I hold forth on […]
Why I won’t sleep tonight
I’m not one for delivering bad news here on the blog. I think it’s counterproductive. But I’m also not one for pretending to be happy when I’m not. And tonight, I’m not. It’s American behavior at the UN conference on climate change that’s getting me down. It looks like fairly certain that the governments around […]
Stop the climate wrecking at Bali
You probably know that the world’s governments have gathered in Bali for a UN conference to begin negotiating a global greenhouse gas emissions treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. You may also know that the United States, the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases, failed to sign the Kyoto Protocol. […]
The mistaken rhetoric of environmentalism
The No Impact experiment in environmental living means that, as part of trying not to harm the planet, we eat better (local food), exercise more (biking everywhere) and waste less time on screen addiction (using no mains electricity). A list of the benefits we’ve noticed, abridged to only the health-related, includes: Twenty pounds off my gut, […]