No Impact Man (2009)
Wednesday, Dec 4
Colin Beavan of Manhattan New York was a married academic with a toddler when he decided to confront the problem of consumption head on by getting his family to live for one year with no net environmental impact. They experiment with living without toilet paper, washer and dryer, refrigerator, electric lights and cars. They forgo shopping and eating meat. Along the way he finds that the low consumption life style may be a more joyful one as well. A self-described “guilty liberal,” he examines the power and limitations of lifestyle change as a strategy for change.
The film will be shown at 7 a.m. in CLA 4110.
