No impact man was a
very interesting documentary that followed the lives of the Beaven family as
they changed the way they lived to make less of an impact on Earth. They didn’t
do it all at once of course and no impact man’s wife (Michelle Conlin) of
course was not keen on some of what she had to give up (Coffee anyone?). But
the implementation of phasing certain things out of their life was inspiring. When
Michelle started to warm up to the no impact style of living, I think I was
even a little inspired since she had such a hard time adjusting to it at first.
Colin Beaver (No Impact Man) was constantly hammered by the media as sort of a
self-righteous author trying to garner popularity through an extreme method. Which
seemed to weigh him down through the course of the documentary.
A basic summary of some of what he did was that he
started using his own bags and would only buy used products with little to no
waste involved in those products. He would also only buy foods that fit a
certain criteria and usually grown as local as possible. Eventually the
apartment would have no energy being supplied to it other than some to power
his laptop for blogging via some solar panels. And they started using more man
powered transportation methods (IE Bikes). They did whatever they could to
reduce the waste they produced, which meant reusable everything, even diapers.
And they made their own cleaning products out of a couple of simple
ingredients.
Overall, I liked it and I found it quite inspiring. I don’t
think I could do all of what they did, but I definitely could do without a
couple of things.
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