Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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If you’re reading this early enough and you want to tune in, you can catch me on Good Morning America around 8:30 this morning. Sorry not to let you all know earlier. There were schedule changes at the last minute. As for all the Good Morning America viewers who watched and are now dropping by, welcome! If you want to know more about the No Impact Man project, a good place to start is here . Meanwhile, those of you who saw me talking about having no electricity in my apartment in order to reduce my environmental impact may be thinking, “Oh hell, I want to help the environment but I’m not about to do what that wacky Colin Beavan has done!” Well, guess what? You don’t have to. Each of us can only help in the ways that we can, which is why I put together this list of previous posts and links which may help you to figure out your own way. The first key to cutting emissions is reducing our use of energy resources. Driving less, flying less, using less power is about the most important new balance golf shoe ays we can each do that. It also links to list of other environmental actions you can take, and explains a little about buying carbon offsets, which is a way of making up for your unavoidable emissions. My favorite carbon offset provider is Native Energy . Another thing you can do at home is to buy your electricity from renewable sources—like wind, hydro or solar. You can find your local provider of renewable electricity at this Department of Energy website .

11:22 AM. Underpants Man sighted again. Underpants Man is a guy who lives a few buildings away from me. He looks to be about 70 years old, 300 to 400 pounds. His name is derived from the fact that each day at around noon, weather permitting, he steps out onto the roof of his building wearing nothing but white boxer shorts and a necktie. He then proceeds to walk around his roof doing mild calisthenics -- basically he moves his arms laterally to simulate some form of "exercise." After walking around the roof of his building like this for approximately five minutes he furtively glances around to make sure nobody has seen him, and then he goes back inside. It's like this every day. Why does he do it? Why the necktie? It's an unsolved mystery. I am fortunate enough to live higher up than his roof, so I have an unobstructed view of this unique phenomenon. Underpants Man is one of those characters that make cheap conference call iving in New York City so rewarding.

Normally I would not ask anyone to watch any Sunday talk show, much less Faux News Channel, but (I received this alert in an e-mail; if I'm wrong, you have my apologies) Sister Jeannine Gramick will appear on This Week With George Stephanopolous (ABC; check local listings) today around noon, and Geraldo Rivera's Fox show later Sunday night. Jeannine was censured and horribly mistreated by the Vatican (Ratzinger) for click to dvd inistering to gays and lesbians and supporting gay rights. Her work was made into a documentary : In Good Conscience, Sister Jeannine Gramick's Journey of Faith. Jeannine made the journey that theocrats and reactionaries fear the most -- she was suspicious and biased against homosexuals until she actually met them and learned just how diverse, thoughtful, kind and capable they were in the midst of their "evil" or "immoral" plans for world domination. Stories like hers are all too rarely heard in our lazy, stereotypical media. I hope you get the chance to witness a small sliver of the work she has done.

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