Have you ever heard of "No Impact Man"? Colin Beaven is a man with a plan; a one year plan. This self-proclaimed liberal felt guilty sitting around waiting for politicians to make things green so he decided to try a pretty extreme experiment. He created a project in which for 1 year he and his family (wife and 2 year old daughter) would create zero impact on the environment. This means they will produce absolutely no carbon footprint. The family lives in the middle of New York, not the easiest place to go green. This project means there will be no subways, cars, or planes, no trash, no elevators, no objects in plastic, no t.v., etc. The Beaven family bought nothing, but food for an entire year (and even then it had to be locally grown). Is less more? Can you be happier by reducing your impact on the environment? I haven't watched the movie myself, but it looks really interesting and I know this family gave up a lot. I'm not sure how they showered, or went to the bathroom, or washed their clothes.
"No Impact Man" also has a blog and a book published. Here is the link to his website: http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/
Anyway, I just thought this was a really awesome experiment and I'm sure watching this video or reading his blog could teach us all little ways to be more environmentally friendly, even if you don't want to go to extremes.
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on youtube there is a little box that says "EMBED", under it there is some html, just copy and past that. And this movie sounds pretty amazing, I wonder if you can rent it anywhere in Duluth?
ReplyDeletethat sounds really interesting, now i'm curious to see how they did it!
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