There are a few reasons why a No Impact reader might care a whole lot about the fact that a writer named Eric Roston has just published his excellent book The Carbon Age. One reason might be that, with so much talk about carbon dioxide this and carbon dioxide that, no one, until now, has […]
global warming
Gore’s call for 100% renewable electricity by 2018
Al Gore Thursday made an important speech in which he called upon the United States to generate 100% of its electricity by renewable means by 2018. This is exactly the approach we need to achieve what is scientifically necessary. I haven’t spoken to them yet, but I believe it is entirely in line with the […]
The planet’s most important number stars in a two-minute cartoon
May Boeve of 350.org, the organization that is trying to let the entire planet’s population know that atmospheric carbon dioxide needs to be stabilized at no more than 350 parts per million (ppm), wrote to me today. She wrote: “The video is live… Feel free to send it out. The cat is out of the […]
Saving myself by saving the world
In my my last post, I suggested that readers, as a personal experiment, try getting actively involved in our democracy by calling their Congressional representative just to see how it felt. The results were amazing and I’m not talking numbers of people who made the call. What I’m talking about is how, pretty much to […]
We changed the world! We made a difference! We did this! Let’s do more!
I’m going to ask you to take what may well be your first political action at the end of this post. THIS MEANS YOU, TOO, MOM!!! It’s going to mean a phone call. It’s going to take less than two minutes. And then I’m going to ask that you come back here to the blog […]
What will it take to save the world?
This is a guest post by Leslie Berliant, blogger and editor at Celsias.com. Let’s give her a big No Impact Man welcome with lots of comments. Do you agree with the scenarios she imagines? Would you be willing to deal with them? Or do you imagine happier possibilities? “The most recent science tells us that […]
Should God have faith in us?
One privilege bestowed on me by writing this blog is the number of emails I get from all over the world, in general, and from people of different religions, in particular. I have a faith of a certain kind and I enjoy talking about the dependence of human health, happiness and security on the well-being […]
No Impact Man writes a climate bill for the House of Representatives
OK. Not really. Or maybe I am. Who knows what will happen? But I’ve had enough interest from bloggers and other people for the “sense of the House” resolution I asked Congressman Nadler to introduce (see here and here) to take it a little further. If you haven’t been following, the idea is to establish […]