Colin Beavan
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Colin Beavan
is a writer, speaker, activist, and consultant. He is the author of No Impact Man and the executive director of the No Impact Project. Colin is a 猫咪社区! contributing editor.
Colin Beavan
I鈥檝e learned a lot about how to be an ordinary person, filled with self-doubt, who still takes the risk of trying to do something about the world.
When hatred stops our ability to understand, it prevents our ability to make change.
As a self-identified feminist man who has survived abuse, I wonder how and if I should participate in the conversation.
If we can stop clinging to stories that obscure the truth of what happened, then what follows easily is, How can I help?
Some of my anger at the recent actions of white supremacists comes from acknowledging my own capacity for ugliness.
A young white man moved into a black neighborhood to fix a crumbling house and discovered what really transcends differences.
There are so many ways we can slow and stop the burning of fossil fuels in the United States. But we need to get to work.
Resolute Forest Products provides the paper for the nation鈥檚 biggest newspapers and publishers. So it鈥檚 up to independent media to speak out.
Try less fighting and speaking and doing to get 鈥渙ur鈥� way鈥攁nd a lot more sitting and listening and questioning and being still.
Critics of nonviolence say that option is the prerogative of the privileged. But actually it鈥檚 the other way around.
While we work to change the government, we can鈥檛 forget that we can also make big change ourselves by starting small and local.
Our current political climate is volatile, scary, and uncertain. But maybe the not knowing and the confusion will finally allow us to arrive at a true beginning.
If you want to sustain yourself for the work ahead, here鈥檚 some advice: It doesn鈥檛 matter whether the other side 鈥渄eserves鈥� anger.
To get someone鈥檚 support, you need more than just facts.
We must take care of ourselves in a way that ensures our compassion is not drained away.
Having fewer and slower cars on the streets where we live encourages neighborliness, makes us not only feel safer but actually be safer.
Low-carbon living isn鈥檛 a sacrifice. Colin Beavan says it鈥檚 the good life.
