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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

Let’s go viral with this excellent action on bottled water

October 8, 2008 by Colin Beavan

The Center for a New American Dream emailed me to ask for our help, so before I even start, let me ask you to email this post to everyone you know. Blog about it. Give it love on Digg, Reddit, all the other sites and send it to your grandma. Because we have a chance […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: bottled water, drinking water, environment, global warming, tap water, water

Public water fountains as an answer to the bottled water problem

September 16, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Some reasons for a fountain on every corner instead of a hundred bottles in every trashcan: City collection of empty bottles is expensive Free water is cheaper than bottled water If water is free, then the price differential encourages kids to avoid sugary drinks Fewer delivery trucks in the streets mean a lower carbon footprint […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: bottled water, drinking water, water

Do you want this man in charge of your drinking water?

June 13, 2008 by Colin Beavan

A while back I wrote a post called “When what’s happening to gas happens to water,” about how companies are buying up water rights and looking forward to the day when clean drinking water is sparse and the price goes through the roof. I wrote, “You see, it’s not just about the plastic bottles. It’s […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: drinking water, T. Boone Pickens, water, water privatization

LV GRN: Keeping our drinking water fresh

May 1, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Yesterday, I wrote about “peak water,” and how we could eventually pay out our noses for drinking water if we continue to allow water sources to be privatized while letting our municipal water systems degrade. To help preserver our water systems, one of the things we did during the No Impact project, and continue to […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: combined sewer overflows, water, water conservation

When what’s happening to gas happens to drinking water

April 30, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Let’s start with the fairy tale that came true for the gasoline magnates: Once upon a time, a number of companies bought up drilling rights here and oil refineries there and eventually gained control over the USA’s gasoline. For a while, gasoline hovered under $2 a gallon, and the companies and magnates had to console […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: bottled water, peak water, water

Too many Big Macs?

January 29, 2008 by Colin Beavan

As you know, the eating part of the No Impact project required my family to switch to eating only local, seasonal, vegetarian food. We are lucky in that local food is not difficult to get in New York City and swearing off meat has not been too hard on our palates. If you’re wondering what […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: beef, climate change, environment, global warming, meat, water

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