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No Impact man

DVD - 2010 DVD 363.7 No 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3.8 out of 5

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Documentary.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.
Special features: No impact dating: Colin and Michelle on No impact nights on the town; "Urban cycling: bike activism in NYC" featurette; "Freeganism: the virtues of gleaning food from the trash" featurette; audience Q&A: Colin, Michelle, and filmmakers discuss the film at the Sundance Film Festival; fruit vinegar: Colin's easy to follow recipe; optional clean audio track for school & educational use.
Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin.
Colin Beavan is a New York City writer and self-proclaimed liberal. He has big plans for his new book. He decides on a grand experiment: to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle, an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer, and their young daughter to be fully on board. The family embarks on a year of no electricity, television, cars, toilet paper, elevators, or newspapers.
DVD, region 0, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Inspring and personal, not preachy submitted by AWolf on November 23, 2011, 11:06pm This is just a great human-interest character-based documentary. The wife/mother was not at all an activist or environmentalist before this. She was a shopaholic, take-out-eating, oblivious, generic American. Overall, everyone shines in their basic honest and transparency. This is not a story of perfection or triumph, but a story of people examining their lifestyle and their relation to each other and the world. I highly recommend it!

enjoyed it submitted by fairytale on August 2, 2012, 4:30pm This is an interesting documentary, especially Michelle's journey. Lots of bonus features on the disc as well.

Eye opening submitted by Lucy S on August 1, 2014, 4:26pm I really liked this. Made me think about my own impact. It was also an interesting study of a marriage. The wife didn't want to go along with all aspects of the project but grew much more than her husband.