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Our oceans are filling up with plastic: plastic that harms wildlife and never biodegrades; plastic that enters the food chain and leaches toxic chemicals. This blog is a record of my journey to live with as little unnecessary plastic as possible. Won't you join me? Fake plastic fish may be cute, but if we keep filling up our oceans with plastic, they could be the only kind we have left.... |
Posts Tagged ‘Colin Beavan’
No Impact Man Chap 4: Wanting Is Not Getting
I just got back last night from a weekend meditation retreat, during which I sat in silence, ate in silence, walked around the retreat center in silence, and then snuck into my room to read Chapter 4 of No Impact Man. (Reading on retreat is discouraged. I do not encourage you to do [...]
Read the entire post.No Impact Man Book Discussion: Chapters 2 & 3
As I mentioned before when discussing the first chapter of No Impact Man, the discussion questions are open to anyone, whether you have read the book or not. So please feel free to join in!
DAY 1: A Stuffed Up Nose
Chapter 2 begins with Colin, having decided to embark on the No Impact Project, waking up [...]
In which I run into No Impact Man again, and nothing happens…
… you know, because of that chemistry accident several years ago while he was working late at the lab so that now things just slide right through him instead of creating an imp… Oh, forget it. That was the scenario Michael created tonight after we saw the No Impact Man movie again and heard [...]
Read the entire post.No Impact Man Book Winner & Discussion
Ready to start reading No Impact Man with me? Do you have your book yet (borrowed or new or electronic?) Oh, wait, one of you doesn’t. And that person is Erin, aka Conscious Shopper, who is the winner of the give-away. Erin, email me your mailing address so I can send [...]
Read the entire post.No Impact Man teaches me to suck eggs.
I’m giving away a free copy of the book No Impact Man to one lucky reader. Instructions are at the end of this post.
In May of 2007, I listened to a radio program that changed my life. The show was To The Best Of Our Knowledge’s Going Green episode, and the interviewee was Colin [...]
Support for No Impact Man, Colin Beavan
This Friday, May 30, No Impact Man Colin Beavan, who has been a great friend to Fake Plastic Fish and has supported the Take Back The Filter campaign, will meet with Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York’s Eight Congressional District to ask him to support real climate change mitigation policy. NIM is asking his [...]
Read the entire post.Sponsors
Read my post about plastic-free recycled ReBinder school & office supplies here.
Read my post about GreenBoatStuff.com here! Their stuff is not just for boats!
