We are two retirees who are re-designing our life to fit within a smaller footprint using Gardening, Recycling and Reduction in Consumption. We are converting the house garden into a living larder and working towards raising our own fish protein in our water catchment pool. The pool will have the added benefit of feeding our vegetable plot. We are Urban Foragers, collecting other people’s trash, using it to create our Eden. We have reduced our car mileage by 75% and soon be converting our car to Biofuel. The website is a journal or our daily adventure into a Low Impact Life.
This post was submitted by Yam Bean.
Hi No Impact Project,
We’re curious if you’d like to do a story about the several ways we’re minimizing the environmental impact of our wedding (while increasing its social impact).
We are:
1. Having a potluck
2. Discouraging material gifts and asking people to donate to 350, Peaceful Uprising, Rootstrikers, and the NLG instead.
3. Paying to offset people’s carbon emissions for travel (or they can buy us trees if they want to offset them themselves).
4. Using apples as decoration (local, compostable, edible arrangments)
5. Getting a second hand dress
6. Renting houses for people to stay at instead of hotel rooms (local economy, less waste)
Please let us know if you’re interested. I don’t think it would fit in the 150 word section, but might be useful elsewhere.
Best,
Linnea and Guillaume
860-898-0101
This post was submitted by Linnea M. Palmer Paton.
I have been on a journey over the last 5 years to reduce my impact on the environment. These are some of the things I have done:
Buy from organic delivery box schemes.
Grow fruit, veg and herbs in my garden.
No chemicals at all. I make my own beauty products and cleaning products.
Use reusable cotton menstrual pads and cotton wool pads.
Buy less.
Recycle.
Reduce the amount of gas and electricity I use.
Use public transport, cycle or walk as much as possible.
Buy fairtrade.
Reuse items, where possible.
I will keep going on my journey and hope to make at least a little difference.
This post was submitted by Kelly.
I just barely finished the Documentary and I was almost drawn to tears. This year I have felt a strong pull to re-connect myself to nature and to take steps to reduce my environmental impact. I keep the lights off as much as I can, I drive as little as possible, etc. After this video I will step things up a little by making most my trips by bike, I will study sustainable living with extreme conviction and I will do all I can to take steps to eliminate my impact. I just want to say thank you so much for doing this. It has helped me to grow as a person. Thank you.
This post was submitted by Jeremy Smith.
Being in the military it isn’t always easy to have time or resources to do things the Green Way but my family and I are working towards it. This year I bought my electric car and the gas van stays in the driveway whenever possible. I began riding my bike to the mall for me to cathc the bus and my wife uses the gas car for 95% of our driving needs.
We have made our home as energy efficient as practical for the time being. I will replace the appliances with more efficient ones when the wear out. I have put up a few solar panels and look to get a wind generator soon.
Getting juiced up!. If you really want to feel the best part of going green you need to experiance juicing fruits and vegies. If you want to eliminate many diseases and prevent them from controling your life then simply transition your diet into 75% fruits and vegies via juice. You will end up with a nice green juice from the earth and it will give you the energy you need without the packagin, sodium or preservitives. See the fat sick and nearly dead video and web site.
Our lives are forming up to a healthy, clean and fun lifestyle that we should all attempt to obtain.
Small increments of change make a large difference when mixed in with time.
This post was submitted by Todd Grahek.
In 2005, my partner and I moved just outside Ukiah, CA to create our own permaculture demonstration site. We built a 600 square foot passive solar strawbale/cob home from mostly on-site or local materials and installed renewable energy, rainwater catchment, and food systems. We also bought an electric bicycle, a Prius, and a GEM electric vehicle. Altogether, we calculated that our carbon footprint is around 4 metric tons, about 10% of the US average. We are growing about half of our food, and expect to grow more as the trees in our food forests and other plantings mature. The only fossil fuel used on site is 10 gallons of propane used for cooking. Our energy comes from the sun through passive solar, a solar oven, photovoltaics, a tiny microhydro generator (during the Winter), and wood for our wood stove and cob oven/stove. My partner is a school teacher and we have most of the typical middle class conveniences.
This post was submitted by Rain Tenaqiya.
In 2005, my partner and I moved to Ukiah, CA to create a permaculture demonstration site. We built a 600 ft2, passive solar, strawbale/cob home from mostly on-site or local materials and installed renewable energy, rainwater catchment, and food systems. We also bought an electric bike, a Prius, and a GEM electric vehicle. Our energy technology includes passive solar design, photovoltaics, a solar water heater, a solar oven, a tiny microhydro system (Winter only), and wood for our wood stove and cob oven/stove. The only fossil fuel used on site is ten gallons of propane annually for cooking. We calculated our carbon footprint at around 4 metric tons, about 10% of the US average. We currently grow about half of our food, and expect this to increase as the trees in our food forests mature. My partner is a schoolteacher and we enjoy most of the modern middle-class conveniences.
This post was submitted by Rain Tenaqiya.
Hi Guys
Yeah I’m just lowering my impact by not buying your DVD. There’s really no reason to produce all this trash and let it be shipped round the world to watch a movie ONCE, right? Why is there no online version?
Best
Marc
This post was submitted by Marc Walser.
Here in Oregon, we have created a solution that is helping people learn about gardening, divert large amounts of material from burn-piles and landfills and grow massive amounts of organic food. We call it a “Sharing Garden”. What makes this community garden unique is that, instead of many separate plots that are rented by individuals, the garden is one large plot, shared by all. All materials and labor are donated. The food we grow is shared amongst those who have contributed in some way as well as others who are in need in our community including Food Banks and other charities. No one is ever charged money for the food that is grown. We think of it as a ‘Stone Soup’ garden where each of us donates a little of our surplus -whether in time or materials-to grow both a sense of community, and plenty of food to share.
This post was submitted by Llyn and Chris.
I started a project in San Francisco in 1990 known as the ONE SIMPLE THING PROJECT. My students and I make and deliver small posters to cafe napkin dispensers to remind people to “take only what they need”. The posters are all over S. F. and beyond.
This post was submitted by Paula Ginsburg.