Colin Beavan's Blog, page 7
March 2, 2010
What it feels like to go No Impact
At least according to one No Impact Week participant...
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February 26, 2010
Flash mob: Sell out the Union Square farmers' market by 3PM on Saturday
Saturday is give back day in the No Impact Week and the group who just did it decided their way of doing something positive would be to support local farmers by trying to sell out the Union Square farmer's market by 3PM. Join in!
February 23, 2010
Eco groups! Wanna screen No Impact Man on Earth Week?
Stephanie, my colleague at the No Impact Project, asked me to draw your attention to the fact that we are having a screening series of No Impact Man during Earth Week in April.
The idea is to bring people together to watch the movie--call it candy--and then to get them to take environmental action--call it saving the planet!
The program is still in the works but we're designing a complete screening action kit to help you do everything from organize the screening to catalyzing your group to...
February 18, 2010
Who do our political parties really care about?
Yesterday, I read about the deadlock in Congress over dealing with our deficit and I felt just sickened. I twittered:
"I've begun to think that both parties care more about institutional survival than our national and planetary survival."
This, in turn, got fed to my "status" on my Facebook page, where lots of people started commenting. Eventually, a comment came from Joseph Romm, who writes Climate Progress. Joe is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank s...
February 17, 2010
February 16, 2010
What if there is no human-caused global warming?
A long time ago, someone wrote to me and asked me what I would do if I was wrong about climate change? I answered him like this.
Just the other day someone else wrote to me. He went on about liberals and how they complain and a bunch of other things he doesn't like about them. Then he said:
"But you're right about one thing. We need to take care of our planet. I don't even know if I believe in global warming. But the thing is, if it doesn't exist, it's even more important that we take care of t...
February 11, 2010
February 10, 2010
The world's easiest first step into growing your own local food
Sprouting.
It's cheap, easy, nutritional and you can do it even if you have no access to other forms of local food. Isabella, my little girl, loves sprouting because she gets to grow sprouts herself and then eats them by the handful.
Start with lentils.
Take a cup or so. Put them in a bowl. Rinse them several times. Drain them but make sure they're still moist.
Next day, rinse them a couple of times and drain them so their moist. Don't let them ever dry out.
After about three days, they're...
February 8, 2010
How to save the planet by eating healthily
If there is a Grand Designer or a Universal Intelligence who made this world, it makes sense to me that He, She or It designed the place so that the interests of human beings and the interests of the rest of Creation work in harmony. Let's face it, a Grand Designer who made a planet that put the interests of the people at odds with the rest of the world would have to be either mean or dumb!
Well, it turns out that, in food like nowhere else, the needs of humans and the needs of the planet are ...
February 2, 2010
Your own pesonal No Impact week with No Impact Man himself (that's me)
Perhaps you know that the No Impact Project, my non-profit effort, has been developing a series of programs to help people discover lifestyle adaptations that are both better for them and the planet. One of the programs is called No Impact Week. You may remember that we ran a virtual version online in collaboration with the Huffington Post.
As we say on the No Impact Project website:
The No Impact Experiment is a one-week carbon cleanse. It is a chance for you to see what a difference...
