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Prioritizing resource use to improve lives

February 5, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I’ve thought a lot about the definition of waste. The way I figure out, a good way of defining waste is the use of planetary resources that don’t improve quality of life. I like this view a lot. Instead of environmental effectiveness being based on the restrictive view that we should simply “use less,” we […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: environment, mass transit, public policy, quality of life, water

Does high resource use make a great life?

September 4, 2008 by Colin Beavan

This photo (sorry for the poor quality) shows one half of an empty basketball court that I’ve ridden past many times during my car-less vacation in Greenport. It’s in someone’s back yard. Never once have I ever seen anyone playing basketball on it. And I thought: some dad or mom might have worked so hard […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: climate change, environment, global warming, happiness, quality of life, resource use

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