No Impact Man: Designers: If it isn't life-enhancing, can it really be sustainable?
We have become so short on environmental resources that we can no longer afford to be wasting them on things that don't even improve our lives.
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We have become so short on environmental resources that we can no longer afford to be wasting them on things that don't even improve our lives.
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We (and I include me) have come to worship desire. Here in the United States, I sometimes despair that our state religion is consumption and our main prayer is for more.
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No Impact Man: We need more than good "energy policy"
We are finally being forced to change the cultural priorities that most of us know in our guts are wrong anyway. The result I envision, if we approach the coming times in the right way, i...
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No Impact Man: A balanced approach to climate change policy
Here in the developed world, we can actually tighten our belts and end up less deprived, because some of the systems we've developed, that suck up so much energy, don't make us happier.
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No Impact Man: Environmentalism and social justice
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No Impact Man: Like falling off a log
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No Impact Man: Conspicuous UNconsumption
When any of us UNconsumes conspicuously, it helps motivate and give permission to other people, too.
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No Impact Man: The "needle exchange" approach to planetary damage
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No Impact Man: Lifestyle change required
[We'll] need a lot of discussion of the "big ideas" until we all agree that it makes sense both for resource use reasons and happiness reasons to make changes.
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No Impact Man: A balanced approach to climate change policy
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No Impact Man: What makes us happy is not stuff but each other
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