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Taking Personal Responsibility for Climate Change

June 25, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

The following is a post by my friend Leslie Berliant. Leslie is a partner at BLU MOON Group, a cause marketing and communications firm. She writes the GoingGreen column for pnn.com and is also a contributing writer at SolveClimate.com, EnergyBoom.com, DesmogBlog.com, the LOHAS Journal and other online and print publications. This weekend, I went to a […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, How To, No Impact Man Tagged With: green living, individual responsibility, Leslie Berliant, personal responsibility

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

Thirty-one tips for reducing your impact while saving money

April 14, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I was reading through comments here on the blog last night and I found this great list of tips by reader Millie Barnes, who writes a blog about health and gardening called Optimum Nutrition. Her tips were just too comprehensive to let them languish in the comments. So here they are (I don’t even mind […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, How To, No Impact Man Tagged With: green living, saving money

Boiling down the lessons of the No Impact project

October 7, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Well, at least according to Alma Gaul, a journalist at the Quad-City Times in Davenport, these are the lessons I learned after the year-long No Impact project: “First, he learned that it is possible to live with a much lower impact and that individuals can make a difference. ‘This has become explosive,’ he said. ‘There’s […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: climate change, environmental activism, global warming, green living, individual action

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

Redefining the good life while saving the planet

August 25, 2008 by Colin Beavan

I’ve said this before: it wouldn’t be so bad if, while wrecking the planet, we could at least say we were having one hell of a party. But I’m not sure we are. So many of us are working way more than we should, spending less time with those that we love than we want […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: climate change, economics, Good life, green living, pollution, self-fulfillment

Who says we need cars and planes for a good life?

August 22, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Now that I’ve finished the draft of my book, we’re finally on holiday. What we used to do, before the No Impact project, was fly to France to stay with friends. But the long haul flight made enough carbon emissions to equal the average American’s entire year of driving, and we had to rent a […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man Tagged With: airplanes, cars, gas prices, green living, green vacation, staycation

I wish I had an iPhone!

May 29, 2008 by Colin Beavan

The deadline is fast approaching, but I’m still hoping for more emails of support for my meeting with Representative Nadler on Friday afternoon. As you know, I will be asking him to help steer the country towards meaningful climate policy. Click here for details and to see how you can help. Now, onwards… I had […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: desire, eco-living, green living, iPhone

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