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Another way to fill the craving to shop

July 7, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Shopping is an American social pastime, but the problem is that shopping from “want,” instead of from “need,” causes the use of planetary resources we can’t afford to burn. We talked about this a little here. Yesterday, I mentioned how much fun my daughter Isabella had running out to a farm field to harvest vegetables. […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: consumption, local food, shopping

How to get your child to eat almost any vegetable

July 6, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Ask my little girl Isabella what she wants to eat and it’s either a. grilled cheese sandwich or b. peanut butter and jelly. Suggest that she should eat her spinach, broccoli or brussels sprouts first and you get an encyclopedic explanation of why she can’t eat it–it doesn’t taste good, it’s too hot, you have […]

Filed Under: Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man Tagged With: children, fussing eating, local eating, local food

Urban gardening and connecting to nature

June 9, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

There are all sorts of reasons to farm food in the cities–reduction of the heat island effect, local food production, keeping storm water out of the waterways. But something happened to me the other day as a result of growing vegetables in my new garden plot that I wasn’t counting on. It’s been a dark […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: community gardening, local food, urban agriculture

Growing your own food, Japanese style

May 8, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

First thing, wanted to remind you that I also twitter here and I friend my readers on Facebook here. Onwards… As you may know, Japan has lower per capita carbon emissions than any Western European country. For that reason, I asked my friend, Sean Saskamoto, who recently moved to Japan and who blogs at I’d […]

Filed Under: Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Family and Friendship, Society Tagged With: gardening, Japan, local food, sean sakamoto

Keeping kids healthy by eating local and unprocessed food

May 7, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

A big part of the No Impact project was to eat only local, seasonal, unpackaged food. That meant, basically, lots of fresh vegetables. Michelle and I both lost a lot of weight. As though to prove how good eating a local-food diet is for kids, too, BusinessWeek writer Cathy Arnst has posted a story, which […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: childhood obesity, local food, processed food

Local, ecologically-sound and economically stable

January 23, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I posted about how investment in a network of local economies rather than one big central economy by the Obama Administration could provide not only a more sustainable paradigm but one that is more socially and economically stable. Think of the Internet. Instead of all our requests traveling through one gigantic central server, information […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: local food, sustainable economics

Innovating business greenly

July 23, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Meet Trevor Paque. He’s landscape gardener meets local food farmer. He rents himself to homeowners, but instead of planting and growing pretty flowers for them–and using the requisite water and chemicals–he grows them organic produce and leaves it in a box on their back porch. This apropos, partly, of yesterday’s post about innovation vs conservation. […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: conservation, green business, innovation, local food

Urban rooftop farming will save the world

June 5, 2008 by Colin Beavan

I dedicate this post to the staff of Just Food, an excellent organization that works to ensure the availability of fresh food in all New York neighborhoods by supporting community gardening and forging connections between communities and local farmers. Read about Just Food here, but more importantly, throw money at them here. I am proud […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: energy use, green roofs, local food, urban agriculture, vegetable gardening

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