Can you live without…

Packaging of any kind?
Plastic bags?
Shopping for new clothes?
A fridge?
Food that’s not grown locally?
Disposable diaper?
Electricity?
A car?
Toilet paper?!

For an entire year? In New York City?

That’s exactly what Colin Beavan decided to live without. The problem – he’s got a wife and young child along for the ride. The movie No Impact Man is the story of the Beavan family who made a decision to see what they could leave behind for a year to see what sort of impact, or lack of an impact I should say they could have on the planet.
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Colin Beavan is No Impact Man and the newest addition to my list of Facebook friends. He is a self-professed “guilty liberal” who finally snapped and in February of 2007 made a giant decision – one that includes his wife, 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old dog – to conduct a year-long experiment to make no net impact on the world. “In other words, no trash, no carbon emissions, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no plastics, no air conditioning, no TV, no toilets…” Did I mention they did this while living in New …read more