Leo Babauta of the awesome Zen Habits blog has kicked off Blog Action Day with his 50 Simple Steps that anybody can do any day to be kinder and gentler to the environment. How many are part of your standard practice already? Take a shorter shower. Use a rag or hand towel instead of napkins [...]
Posts Tagged ‘simple things’
50 Ways Quiz
Posted in activism, environment, making a difference, simple things, tagged activism, environment, making a difference, simple things on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Driving less, walking more
Posted in recommended, simple things, sustainability, tagged pedestrian, recommended, search engine, simple things, sustainability, walking on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re looking for places in walking distance of where you live, or evaluating a neighborhood to see what’s walkable, try WalkScore, a maps mashup that shows resources in an area. It’s not perfect, but it may show you things that you didn’t realize were around a corner that you hadn’t visited, like a convenience [...]
What You Can Do: Sustained Committment
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activism, self-study, simple things on January 2, 2001 | Leave a Comment »
From Phil Agre’s excellent RRE list: “People read here and elsewhere about digital civil liberties issues and they ask me “what can I do?”. My answer is, “pick something”. I tell them pick some a specific small issue, learn all about it, set up a Web page, make contact with others who are doing the [...]




