Can You Save the Planet Without Driving Your Family Crazy?
That post title is the whole premise of a new movie, No Impact Man, coming out on September 11th 2009 in New York and Los Angeles, with national dates of release to follow. No Impact Man is a documentary, Sundance 2009 official selection about one New York City family’s attempt to leave as little environmental impact as possible. BUT in this case the husband of the family is way on board while his wife is a meat eating, espresso drinking, TV watching gal; which is all good unless your husband, Colin, is attempting to leave nothing behind.
See the trailer:
The basics: Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, took on the No Impact Project in November 2006. As a new environmentalist Colin busted onto the scene in a pretty large way – no more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption, and so on. However, his wife, Michelle and two-year old daughter are also a part of the picture, so how they cope while being dragged along for the ride is the green that most of us will compare with – having to learn as we go vs. doing it all at once.
I may be attending one of the showings, and if so I’ll be back with a review, but from the looks of the preview, it should pretty much rock. Plus I think this is something a lot of green folks have issues with – i.e. are you greener than your mate, family, friends, and so on.
More info…
No Impact Man blog
No Impact Man book
No Impact Man Facebook page
What do you think of the preview? It looks cool no?
It seems really good. And humorous. I know I walk a fine line between compulsion & normalcy (whatever that is). I don’t want my kids to feel like freaks, so I let go on things maybe more often than I would like. I just hope that all of my ‘educating’ and leading by example will pay off and they will decide to be freaks on their own. haha.