Last year, a friend of mine told me about something she had heard on NPR about a guy living in New York City with a “no impact for a year” goal. He planned on living for a year with no carbon impact. This meant no transport of any kind other than feet or bike, no electricity, no plastic container, cups, wrappers etc and eating only locally produced food.

Intrigued, I hunted around and found his website No Impact Man

I found his one year story fascinating and thought provoking. For awhile I had his blog listed in my “Blogs I’m Reading” list, but since his one year experiment is over and he has (as he planned all along) decided what changes he could live with and which ones he couldn’t, his blog is less interesting to me. It tends to be too political for my taste.

However his original story is so fun to read. He is a good writer and it is interesting to see how he and his family (wife, young daughter and a dog) managed without all the things we think we “need” to survive.

To read his one year story this is the best blog entry to start on (in my opinion) – then just read your way through the year.

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