Yesterday was supposed to mark the beginning of my No Impact experience. It's a nationwide volunteer project initiated by Colin Beaven, aka No Impact Man. He's the fellow from Greenwich Village who tried to reduce his "carbon footprint" to zero with a year long project (now a lifetime living philosophy, I believe) of living a waste and electricity free life. It was a pretty huge undertaking considering that he had a very young child, North Eastern winters can get pretty harsh even with articial heating, and he lives in New York City--one of the most consumer driven places on planet Earth. Well, he did it. And he claims that he lost weight, saved money, and most importantly, his overall satisfaction of his quality of life improved by miles.
In addition to the fact that I care deeply about the environment, the extra happiness bit is an extra motivator to try this out. Sometimes it's easy to get sucked into the downward spiral of homework and my internship, so I thought I'd take a stab at going No Impact! I'm officially starting today, since I totally forgot the project started on Sunday and I broke all the major rules for the first day. So today, my challenges are to cut out shopping for unnecessary items and carry all my trash around with me so I can look at all the waste I've created at the end of the day. Wish me luck.
Colin's blog:
www.noimpactman.typepad.com
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