Colin Beavan aka No Impact Man has the right idea!
This was posted on Jul 28th, 2008 by Wine Drinker Extradionarre and tagged in Sustainable & Green
A recent post on No Impact Man’s blog - he’s so right. We need to start thinking and talking about living in an environmentally responsible way as living a more enriching life. Being constantly plugged in to the tv, the phone, the laptop, being plugged into whatever creates a life of deprivation - deprived of connection with nature, other people and ourselves in a meaningful way. Turn the stuff off and start living! A great life need not cost the earth
I could spend my time working to pay for and watching things like this:
Or I could take that same time–as I did this weekend–and spend it with my three-year-old Isabella doing stuff instead of watching stuff:
The politicians and so many others worry that using fewer planetary resources means deprivation and that deprivation won’t sell. But they’re lacking the vision of something better.
I can’t help thinking this treadmill we’re on means we’re already deprived. The message is that in saving the planet we could have more–not more stuff but more life.
Because great lives need not cost the earth.
