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The average American generate 1600 pounds of garbage a year. Try to imagine no electricity, no TV, an experiment in extreme no impact consumerism. No plastic razors and and no soda pop. Can people do it? Can people living in New York City do it? For a year?
Eating nutritionally and shopping locally and seasonally. Spending time with your family without texting, beeping, clicking or remote controlling it. Not buying new stuff. Eschewing bottled water. Green markets rely on green consumers. But can a family live green?
Being impactful has its drawbacks. Nobody knows this better than Colin Bevan, who launches more into the green cinema category with a new feature film opened September 11, 2009. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein directed this documentary that begins another channel of eco-tainment.
His family must go without fast food and cosmetics, dry cleaning and elevators. This documentary shows the real consumers at home dealing with an effort to reduce footprint living. Turning off the electricity, reduce water use, in a radical experiement that turns daily living away from consumption of packaging, energy, water, and transportation.
Author Colin Beavan, in research for his new book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal complacency for a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year.
No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption… no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray.
….catch the Trailer
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