A while back I read a New York Times article about Colin Beavan and his family. They were living in Manhattan and Colin had decided they’d go a year without making any impact on the environment. By the time the New York Times had caught up with the Beavans, they were already living without electricity or toilet paper. The impression I got from the article was that this project was just another wacky experiment by another wacky environmentalist (Colin). Having spent time with the Beavan family through the documentary No Impact Man, I think the New York Times got it all wrong.
Sphere: Related ContentIf you read our article about Google’s DC offices, you probably saw that Google has a solar water heater on display. The solar water heater came from Jimmy Carter’s White House.
Carter installed the solar water heater at the White House in 1979. Carter wanted to reduce the U.S.’s dependence on foreign oil.
“A generation from now, this solar water heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just …
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