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Unless you’re willing to toss something in the garbage within about five minutes of getting it, without ever having really used it, you pretty much can’t get anything. — Colin Beavan, on Day one of the No Impact Man experiment Early in the 2009 documentary No Impact Man, the subject shows how much trash his [...]

After two years of inactivity, Twitter suddenly became a part of my daily routine this year. Along the way it killed off my need for an RSS reader, as I’d rather view the content in its original intended display, and most everyone I read links to new posts in Twitter. One less thing to use. [...]

When I initially set out to launch Small For Good, I made a show-stopping mistake: I stopped thinking like the client. Instead of getting oxygen to the idea as quickly as possible, I started kicking around ideas for layout, a logo, color choices, imagery, and so on. I’m a designer, I thought. Of course I’m [...]

When I first heard of Earth Hour, I was captivated by the idea of collective behavior at an individual level. If all of us did one thing at one specific time, what could happen? I find the spirit behind the question endlessly inspiring. As such, I’ve created smallforgood.com, a site that seeks out those small, [...]

Trading anonymity for accountability has led to radically improved conversations. — There is an inverse relationship between level of anonymity and quality of conversation I can’t stand the state of comments on news websites. If the internet is the great democratizer of content, it’s a horrible place to have an actual conversation with people. Name-calling [...]