C. Beavan: It turns out that my family’s plastic take-out-tub trash is part of a huge societal garlic-sauce-covered slop of molded hydrocarbons and other petrochemicals that, after perhaps twenty minutes of use, will end up in landfills and incinerators, to leach chemicals into the water we drink or vaporize into the air we breath. October 29, 2020January 24, 2021 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
C. Beavan: [T]he simple idea that we ought not take for granted what we had been blessed with[: We] should act with gratitude for this life we’ve been granted and all that comes with it. [I] looked at the volume of stuff I had used for less than five minutes, and I felt ungrateful. October 27, 2020January 24, 2021 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
C. Beavan: Leaving aside the people who have severely limited access to food and clean drinking water, so many people I knew, both in New York and elsewhere in the world’s go-fast consumer culture, were dissatisfied with the lives they had worked to get-the lives they were supposed to want. October 22, 2020January 24, 2021 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
C. Beavan: What really filled me with despair, though, was that I didn’t believe that the way of life that was steadily wrecking the planet even made us happy. [If] I had to generalize, I would say that, on average, the [billions of] people who share this globe are nowhere near as happy as they could be. October 20, 2020January 24, 2021 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
C. Beavan: [I] felt like I’d just stepped on the scale and the news was much worse than I’d thought. [I]t was the throwing away of things used for less than five minutes without so much as a though before reaching for the exact same product to use for another five minutes before throwing that away, too. [F]or years, I had been giving myself a daily pass with the intention of eventually doing better. July 8, 2020January 24, 2021 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
C. Beavan: [Is a] ‘high standard of living’ the same as a good quality of life? July 8, 2020October 17, 2020 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
C. Beavan: The people most satisfied with life […] had strong social connections, found meaning in their work, got to exercise what they considered to be their highest talents, and had a sense of some higher purpose. February 10, 2019July 8, 2020 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
Tao Te Ching: The man who knows that enough is enough will always have enough February 9, 2019July 8, 2020 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
C. Beavan: The trick to environmental living might not be in choosing different products. Instead […] it might partly be about choosing fewer products. February 8, 2019July 8, 2020 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
C. Beavan: No one can live without making some environmental impact. February 7, 2019July 8, 2020 by Christopher Robin, posted in No Impact
