Arianna Huffington: HuffPost's "No Impact Week": Small Steps, Big Results

By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post

Last week, we launched our new Impact section -- and had an immediate impact. Now I want to draw your attention to "No Impact." No, we're not suddenly mimicking the faux-balance of the mainstream media. HuffPost's No Impact Week is a project we've launched together with Colin Beavan -- aka "No Impact Man" -- and his non-profit No Impact Project. The goal is to demonstrate ways in which small actions in our daily lives can have a profound impact on our world.

Each day for the next seven days, we will show you specific, manageable steps you can take -- just for that day, if you like -- to have a tangible impact on, well, lessening your impact.

There are, obviously, many ways to affect change on our environment -- legislative action, corporate reform, large-scale activism. None of these are mutually exclusive and we need to pursue all of them. But this project starts at the personal level, by showing us how we affect the environment on a daily basis.

The "no impact" movement took shape in 2007, when Colin and his family began a yearlong experiment to live in New York City with as small of a footprint as possible The experiment became a book, then a movie, then a website....

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