Low Carbon Man Lives Like a Homeless Bum for the Environment

Environmentalists have a hard enough time convincing the world that we’re not a bunch of dirty tree hugging hippies without guys like Ben Clowney, aka Fair Trade Man, aka Low Carbon Man, mucking it up for us.

Ben first got on the green radar with his bid to eat only Fair Trade food for two weeks. Now he’s living in a tent in the parking lot of his office and taken the new name of Low Carbon Man. His goal to to cut his carbon footprint by 95% by living in the tent and using wind up electronics for communicating. Basically, he’s living like a homeless bum.

I don’t think his example is what we need to be celebrating. Of course someone can cut their carbon footprint by living in a tent down by the river for a few weeks. That’s not a challenge that most of us can and will take up. We need to show people how they can live in real houses with heat and electricity and running water without destroying the earth to do it. Low Carbon Man is just muddying the green waters with his homeless antics.

Link [Treehugger]