This documentary is hitting movie theaters this week. It tells the story of a man who convinced his family to go totally environmental.

This Slate magazine article calls this Business Week writer “An Inconvenient Husband.”   In the fall of 2006, Colin Beavan, a New York-based writer, embarked on a project to reduce his family’s environmental footprint to a bare minimum, an experience he would turn into a blog and later a book.

“No Impact Man becomes as much a portrait of a modern marriage as a design for green living. Over the course of a year, the couple’s downsized lifestyle brings them closer together; instead of watching
reality TV, they play charades by candlelight, and by the time the electricity comes back on, they do seem genuinely happier together. Theirs might not be a marriage I’d want for myself  . . . .

“But it’s hard not to admire their shared commitment to a project that, in some attenuated form, many of us would like to emulate in our own lives. Bring on the cloth diapers and compost boxes, but you’ll have to pry the toilet paper out of my cold, dead hands.”   No Impact Man reviewed. - By Dana Stevens - Slate Magazine

For those interested in making “No impact” here is a link to Colin’s blog and this note from him:

“the exciting news is that the Huffington Post has partnered with the No Impact Project to launch the No Impact Week, starting on October 18, in which you can challenge yourself to substantially lower your impact for a week.” No Impact Man

Copyright 2009 Rita Watson