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Week 51: The Wrapping’s the Gift

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Gift Giving, Shopping, tagged , , on December 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Back when I was a kid, when our family went visiting, mom would pull out a large, colorful square of fabric, place one of the delicacies she had cooked up, or a gift she had bought in the center and then fold, twist and tie the material into a beautiful carrying “package.” In Japanese, it’s [...]

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Week 48: Really Cool Holiday Stuff

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Arts and Culture, carbon footprint, Children, Eco-Friendly, Education, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Friends, Gender Equality, Gift Giving, Homeless, Hunger, Micro-financing, Plastic, Shopping, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 30, 2010 |

Not long ago, the mere mention of socially-conscious gifts or green giving would likely provoke offers of “let’s not exchange gifts this year” by adults, tantrums by children. At best, it meant a packet of cards with flowers pressed in waxed paper, or a lamp made from popsicle sticks (no offense to either). But now, [...]

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Week 45: The Perfect Plastic Video

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Plastic, tagged , , , , , on November 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

We had to add a follow-up to our Week 45: Plastic Surgery posting. This video just in from friend and follower Laurie. A fabulous way to get the message across. Worth watching!

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Week 45: Plastic Surgery

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Plastic, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Yes, I know, Week 45 has long come and gone. The plan was to try to extract as much plastic from our lives during that week. We succeeded in many ways, but we needed to know that what we achieved were things we could make sustainable. It’s taken us two weeks to figure out what [...]

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LiveStream: TEDx The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, tagged , , , , on November 4, 2010 |

On Saturday, November 6th, beginning at 11:30 AM EDT, the Plastic Pollution Coalition hosts TEDx The Great Pacific Garbage Patch where global thought leaders in technology, science, arts and entertainment, politics, design, community activism,  and business join in a dialog on “The Global Plastic Pollution Crisis.” The event will take place in Santa Monica, California, [...]

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Week 40: Eating Local and Organic, Sharing Recipes

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, local eating, Local Food, Local harvest, Organic Food, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Due to flu and other 24/7 commitments we didn’t have time to post Week 40′s Impact Effort on-time … Here we go! Worth the wait, I think. Something a little different, brought to you by Nils this week. As you might recall, three weekends ago, we went to the local organic farmer’s market to buy [...]

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Vote: Your Favorite Slacktivist Slacktivity

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Hunger, Micro-volunteering, volunteering, tagged , , , , , on October 19, 2010 |

Back in Week 38, Nils and I put up a challenge for submission of the laziest ideas for making an Impact: The Slacktivist Impact Challenge. In the  true spirit of Slackers (and because of a flu and a 24/7 online conference I was presenting at), we fell behind in choosing and posting the finalists. But, [...]

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Lovin’ Slacktivism, Slacktivists and Slacktivity

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, carbon footprint, Children, Eco-Friendly, Education, Environment, Product Safety, volunteering, women's rights, tagged , , , , , , , on September 22, 2010 |

This is turning out to be such a fun week. I’m lovin’ being a Slacktivist and thanks to a friend, I now have a new word to add to my vocabulary: Slacktivity! (Thanks, Joe. I think I’ll submit it to Merriam-Webster). This trying really hard to do as little as possible and have an Impact [...]

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Week 34: Spontaneous Impact Weekend

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, carbon footprint, click-to-donate, Clothing, Homeless, Human Rights, Random Acts of Kindness, volunteering on August 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Dark clouds, spitting rain and an uncomfortable chill were our companions for morning coffee on Saturday. It was pretty dispiriting. Did we really have to go outside and get things done? By the time we finished our morning ablutions and discussions on the day’s plan, the clouds had cleared a bit — in the sky, [...]

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Week 32: Caught off-guard by plastic

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment on August 21, 2010 |

“Week 32: Plastic Collection” caught both Nils and me a little off guard. Since starting this 52 week project, our goal has been to create Impact. The contrary occurred last week — we were the ones Impacted. The mere act of laying out all our plastics for the week, identifying from where each came, and [...]

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