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Not carbon offset but carbon penitence

January 15, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Tomorrow I fly from New York City to Salt Lake City, Utah, leaving in my wake a big long contrail and a lot of carbon dioxide–both of which contribute to global warming. It’ll be the second flight I’ve taken in more than two years. What’s popular, when it comes to flying, is buying carbon offsets. […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: Carbon offsets, climate crisis, global warming, hydroelectric, renewable energy

Just because we have Obama doesn’t mean we don’t need to take action on climate change

January 14, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Back in December, when it became clear that President-elect Obama would name the physicist Steven Chu as his energy secretary, Climate Progress blogger Joseph Romm, a former energy official in the Clinton administration, applauded the move. Joe wrote that Chu was a great pick, most especially because Chu “isn’t fooled by clean coal claptrap. Earlier […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, No Longer Relevant Tagged With: Capital Power Plant, civil disobedience, climate crisis, global warming, Steven Chu

How to cut out home heating oil–Japanese style

January 6, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

This is a guest post by my friend Sean Sakamoto, who blogs at www.idratherbe.tv/injapan. “It’s so weird that you heat your whole house,” my wife said one winter. She’s Japanese, and when we first got married, here in the United States, we got a lot of mileage out of the “I can’t believe you people […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: carbon emissions, climate crisis, consumption, global warming, happiness, kotatsu

The cultural barriers to environmental change

November 17, 2008 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Here’s an alternative title for this post: nasty neighbors and mean people you meet in the street. But that would just be bile and silliness and bitterness and not addressing myself to the real obstacles to social and environmental change which are at play, which are important to understand. Because what’s happened is that a […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: automobiles, bicycle parking, bicycles, bike parking, climate change, climate crisis, global warming

Al Gore’s good news on climate change

November 10, 2008 by Colin Beavan

In case you missed Al Gore’s OpEd in yesterday’s New York Times: … Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis. Economists across the spectrum — including Martin […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: climate crisis, global warming

The big question

October 10, 2008 by Colin Beavan

I was in conversation with a product designer today. He works hard on sustainability issues. He starts, with a new client, by designing exactly what the client wants exactly the way the client wants it. Once he’s worked with a client for a while, and has gained the client’s trust, he can begin to suggest […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: climate change, climate crisis, global warming, product design

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