We presented this story in October, but it is a fitting documentary for Earth Day. 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. ” 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: No Impact Man

Copyright 2010 Rita Watson