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We’re In This Together

May 28, 2009 by Sean Sakamoto Leave a Comment

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 Rather Be In Japan, to check in with us every so often. I thought we might be able to learn a little something about […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: environmentalism, personal responsibility, recycling, Trash, waste

Celebrate a great organization and hear me speak

September 2, 2008 by Colin Beavan

This coming Saturday, September 6, New York City’s Lower East Side Ecology Center (LESEC) is having its annual fund-raising bash, and I have the honor of giving a talk (I’ll be brief, promise). This excellent party with a local-food dinner, music and activities for kids and adults will be at the East River Park amphitheater […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, No Longer Relevant Tagged With: Lower East Side Ecology Center, recycling, Trash, waste

LV GRN: Why recycling is nowhere near enough

April 9, 2008 by Colin Beavan

People used to to ask me, essentially, why I was making such a big dig about not making trash during the No Impact project. They’d say, “I mean, it’s recyclable, right?” As Annie Leonard says in Story of Stuff, “Recycling reduces the garbage at [the landfill and incinerator] end and it reduces the pressure to […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: carbon emissions, downcycling, environment, global warming, production costs, recycling, Trash

An end to e-toxins just a phone call away (please make it)

January 2, 2008 by Colin Beavan

  First off, let me ask you please to forward this post to every New Yorker you know, and ask them to make the calls… Some say that e-waste–trashed computers, cell phones, printers and other gadgets–is becoming one of the biggest toxicity problems facing our culture. In the US, municipal incineration of e-waste is the largest source […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: electronics, eWaste, extended producer responsibility, greening, New York City, recycling

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