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environmental living

Why each person’s personal choices matter

May 12, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Sometimes people say to me that what they do can’t affect the whole planet’s health so why should they even try? But if all us tried, well, that would make a big difference, right? So the other day, I was standing at the crosswalk with quite a crowd. The sign said don’t walk but there […]

Filed Under: Best of No Impact Man, Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: environmental choices, environmental living, ethics, grassroots activism, green living

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

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

40 steps on the personal path to green

August 26, 2008 by Colin Beavan

A few weeks ago, I asked readers, “If a friend decided they wanted to do something about the environment, how would you tell him or her to start?” So just in case you or a friend wants to start, here are 39 of the answers, in no particular order and boiled down to their essence. Don’t […]

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

How Christmas turned out for Isabella

January 3, 2008 by Colin Beavan

(You can read previous writings to do with the effects of consumption on the planet and human security, health and happiness here, here and here.) Anyway, we worried that the daughter of the enviro-freaks–i.e. our nearly 3-year-old Isabella–would suffer for our principles while our adored Gordie and Ellie got to open gifts. We agonized. We […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: Christmas, consumption, environmental living, gifts, happiness

It pays to be charitable

November 5, 2007 by Colin Beavan

Around the time I started the project, I became friends with a professor at Syracuse University named Arthur Brooks. Arthur had just come out with the book Who Really Cares, his study of charitable giving that showed, among other things, that people who give to charity end up wealthier. In other words, to generalize, it is in our best […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: Arthur Brooks, charitable giving, environmental living

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