Colin Beavan writes and administers the provocative environmental blog NoImpactMan.Com, a meeting point for discussion of environmental issues, lifestyle redesign and political engagement from a "deep green" perspective.

The blog began, as the news stories go, when "Colin Beavan, a liberal schlub, got tired of listening to himself complain about the world without ever actually doing anything about it…" Thus, in November, 2006, Beavan launched a year-long project in which he, his wife, his two-year-old daughter and his four-year-old dog went off the grid and attempted to live in the middle of New York City with as little environmental impact as possible.

The point of the project was to experiment with ways of living that might both improve quality of life and be less harmful to the planet. It also provided a narrative vehicle by which to attract broad public attention to the range of pressing environmental crises including: food system sustainability, climate change, water scarcity, and materials and energy resource depletion.

Beavan's experiment in lifestyle redesign is the subject of his book (scheduled for publication in Spring 2008 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and a documentary by independent filmmakers Laura Gabbert (Sunset Story, Getting to Know You) and Eden Wurmfeld (The Hammer, Puccini for Beginners, Kissing Jessica Stein).

Blog Entries by Colin Beavan

No Impact Week: Taking The Environment Into Our Own Hands

35 Comments | Posted October 15, 2009 | 09:08 AM (EST)


To Sign Up For HuffPost's No Impact Week starting October 18th, Click Here!

As you may have heard, thousands of people have now signed up to participate in the No Impact Project's week-long experiment in environmental living, which begins on October 18, hosted here on Huffington Post....

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A Stunt Or Not A Stunt? That Is NOT The Question

42 Comments | Posted September 4, 2009 | 08:35 AM (EST)


Last week, Elizabeth Kolbert, a respected New Yorker journalist who writes admirably about issues to do with our climate catastrophe and the environment, wrote a scathing attack on my book, No Impact Man. Sadly, casualties on the battlefield of Kolbert's wrath included not only me, but also the work...

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Drill Here, Drill Now, Get Nothing but an Opinion poll point or two

Posted August 19, 2008 | 03:29 PM (EST)


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The Democrats are caving on offshore drilling.

As reported by the Christian Science Monitor (emphasis added):

"... In a shift on Saturday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the House will take up comprehensive energy legislation next month that includes partially lifting the 1981 ban on...

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