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Things We Love: The No Impact Project

jackson published on September 16, 2009 in celebrity, food and zeitgeist. 5 Comments Tags: , , , .

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SuperForester Maggie just sent us word of No Impact Man Colin Beavan’s latest venture: the No Impact Project.

Want to live No Impact for a week? Sign up on the site and they’ll guide you through the steps. All friendly like! Your transition to No Impact living is gradual and easy. Little by little, you work to minimize your impact over the course of a week, and by weeks end, you guessed it… No Impact Life!

The No Impact Life is both extreme and very fulfilling apparently. I myself have never tried to go No Impact for a week. That’s why I signed up. It’s free and cool, and there’s the most hilarious video imaginable on the site:

Check out No Impact Project, SuperForesters! Maybe a bunch of us sign up and we can all try it out together? Share tips and ideas? That sounds like a big old SuperForesty win right there.

What say you, SuperForester Maggie? You and me, together in cyberspace? Let’s do this thing.

Love,

Jackson

No Impact Man Documentary Trailer Now Online (And In HD)

jackson published on July 17, 2009 in celebrity and zeitgeist. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

We love, love, love No Impact Man!

From the looks of the trailer, No Impact Fam might be a more apt description as the film follows Colin Beavan, his wife, and their infant daughter as they attempt to live a year in Manhattan with no net-environmental impact.

I love how the trailer pulls no punches. It makes the No Impact Year experiment look appropriately grueling and stressful, but the flip-side of the stress and effort seems to be a closer family, healthy weight loss, and spending waaaay less. Plus the all-local food diet looks really tasty.

If a lot of folks see and talk about this movie, and the No Impact ethos spreads awareness the way An Inconvenient Truth did, Colin Beavan will have to change his name to Massive Impact Man.

I can’t wait to see this. Here’s a piece about Mr. Beavan from SuperForest ’08.

Fascinating

No Impact Man: Equity or the End of the Planet

jackson published on July 16, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .


(pic via flickr user WakaMouL)

Just found a great piece from No Impact Man about the need for equality worldwide.

Treating others as we would hope others would treat us is the key not only to solving the differences between us, but also ensuring that the world around us, (a.k.a. the environment,) is well taken care of.

Check it:


Equity or the end of the planet

- Colin Beavan (No Impact Man)

“Yesterday I posted this joke:

Q: What’s the difference between a developer and an environmentalist?

A: A developer is someone who wants to build a cabin in the woods; an environmentalist is someone who already has one.

What struck me about it was the truth in it, a truth we need to be aware of. Let me recast it.

Q: What’s the difference between the developer of a coal power station from the developing world and an environmentalist who fights the development of coal power from the developed world?

A: The developer just wants a better life for his country’s citizens. The environmentalist and his fellow nationals already have a good life.

By 2050, there will be nine billion people but only one billion from the developed world. The one billion of us from the rich countries can go zero impact, but if the other eight billion still have to burn coal for a better life, we’re done for.

Not only do we have to find a way to reduce our resource consumption in the United States and Western Europe, but paradoxically, we also have to find a way to transfer renewable energy to the developing world so they can consume more.

Make no mistake. Solving climate change, ultimately, is an equity problem.”

Nicely put.

Love to all,

Team SuperForest

NY Times: No Impact Man (& Fam!)

jackson published on July 16, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Morning All,

Just blundered onto a great piece in the Times about Colin Beavan, NYC’s own No Impact Man.
For last year Colin and his family have been living under a rule set that would make most of us shudder, but this rule set is designed to help the family live with… you guessed it, almost no impact on the world around them.

Of course, the words “no impact” are used here with a fair amount of irony, as Colin’s blog, a journal of his year and life during the experiment, has communicated to a huge amount of people just how little one actually has to give up in order to live sustainably.

We suppose him calling it “Massive Impact Man” might rub folks the wrong way.

But hey…

Here’s the No Impact Man blog.
Here’s an Op-Ed piece Colin wrote for the Times about his home worm composting bin.
Here’s the No Impact Man piece in the NY Times.
And here’s a picture of a mouse riding on a toad’s back!

Love to all,

Team SuperForest