What's Cooking This No Impact Week
Food is the focus of this fourth day of the eight-day "week" and if you find shopping at the farmer's market no challenge, take on foraging for your meals instead.
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Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap
The authors of Superfreakonomics super(freaky)star status means that they and their travesty of a book will get attention despite its non-truthful truthiness and misleading mediocrity on climate-change.
The Next No Impact Experiment: Colin Beavan on Happiness Through Lighter Living
Last month, Huffington Post and the No Impact Project hosted a No Impact Week to encourage readers to live better by living lighter. Colin Beavan's No...
Double Duty: Tips for Lowering Impact in the Kitchen
What is intriguing about Double Duty for me is how to use the method to inspire some yummy innovations in food like caramelizing a butternut squash or smoking a pepper.
Rules for Public Speaking
Here, then, are six fundamental rules for public speaking: Rule Number One: No matter how inadequate your speaking skills, don't tell your audience.
Want to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? Reduce Your Trash Footprint!
The Product Policy Institute has recently released two new reports that confirm product and packaging waste contribute forty-four percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
No Impact Week: A Few Thoughts on Getting from Here to There
Instead of buying a new car, I bought a Vespa. And you know what? It has turned out to be the perfect complement to my alternative transportation lifestyle.
Taking on No Impact Week From Abroad: Lima's Transportation System Sucks
Reducing consumption is hard enough, but doing No Impact Week in a country where the buses are dangerous and the air pollution is much higher than what is healthy -- that's a challenge.
Apprenticed for Life: Learning From Millie Kalish's Hard Times on an Iowa Farm During the Depression
Much of Mildred Armstrong Kalish's outstanding book is devoted to entire chapters on how her family survived on a rural farm in record cold with no running water, no central heat, no electricity, and no money.
Life Cycles of Consumable Goods: Lower-Impact Shades of Green
Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.
Eco Etiquette: Stop Wasting Food! How To Plan A Special Diet Dinner Party
My fiancé and I love to entertain, but I'm so fed up of trying to deal with everyone's dietary/environmental restrictions! I've tried asking people a...
Consumed With Guilt
Can we transform from a society of consumers to a culture of sustainability? I think we can because history has shown that the human spirit is capable of so many things. Like going to the moon. Yes, we can.
No Impact Week: An Exercise in Mindfulness
As I read the No Impact Guide my spirit lightened. We were being asked to pay attention, be honest with ourselves and let go of preconceived notions, even our concept of what we need to make ourselves happy.
No Impact Food Day Q&A With Colin Beavan
The No Impact Project week's in full swing, and those of us who've signed on are taking a closer look at our carbon "foodprint." I asked Colin to tell us more about his adventure in ecological eating.
No Impact Week: Free to Be Plastic Free
A former geology professor of mine used to say that this period of geologic history would be seen in the future as "The Pampers Layer." That can't be the legacy we intend to leave.
No Impact Week: The Enigma of the Water Closet
The water delivered to our homes is drinking-quality water but we use only ten percent of it for drinking and cooking. We use about one-third outdoors to water lawns. Of the water we use indoors, a third is flushed away.
No Impact Week: Tips on How Not to Waste Food (Video)
Jonathan Bloom, journalist, and author of Wasted Food Blog, lists out the practical steps for reducing individual food waste in the home.
No Impact Week: Consumption and Garbage
Looking at the garbage and recycling bins under my own kitchen sink yesterday, it struck me that most of the stuff I end up throwing away consists of packaging.
Walking the Talk -- My Week of Environmentally Responsible Living
For an environmentalist in America wishing to minimize his or her footprint, New York City is one of the better choices -- less sprawl, more compact living, and a public transit system.
HuffPost's "No Impact Week": Small Steps, Big Results
HuffPost's No Impact Week is a project we've launched together with Colin Beavan -- aka "No Impact Man." The goal is to demonstrate ways in which small actions in our daily lives can have a profound impact on our world.
Artist Tim Burke Recycles Detroit History, And Rescues Himself (PHOTOS)
Detroiter Tim Burke calls himself an artist, a scavenger, and a non-practicing alcoholic. Devoted to the reuse of refuse, the 40-something sculptor us...
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