Yesterday, for the purposes of provoking conversation, I posed the question of whether the earth would be better off without people. I, of course, don't believe this at all. But I do think dealing with the question causes interesting conversation.

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.

In case you missed Al Gore's OpEd in yesterday's New York Times: Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the...

From the No Impact Project: Every year, growing numbers of us are unhappy with the shopping frenzy that surrounds the holidays but most of us don’t know how to get off the treadmill. What if we worked together to find another way to celebrate?  This...

First thing, wanted to remind you that you can follow me on twitter here and friend me on on Facebook here. Onwards... As you may know, Japan has lower per capita carbon emissions than any Western European country. For that reason, I asked my...

People often ask me how we are supposed to cope with the tragedy of the cliff of climate change and the fact that humanity seems ready to charge straight off it. How do you live in the face of that? One time, I went to a spiritual workshop at the...

Figuring out how to live. Isn't that what we're all trying to do? To that point, here is some correspondence from my Facebook page to do with someone trying to figure out how to live in their own special circumstances: To Colin and friends: How do I...

I thought it might fun to feature some of the old posts on the blog that give explicit directions on how to do things ecologically. Here they are: Cut out home heating oil–Japanese Style Get your child to eat almost any vegetable Get news about No...