We wrote "watch a documentary" on our calendar for today so Ken stopped at the movie store on the way home and picked one up. He brought home "No Impact Man". It is about a man who decides to try live without making an environmental impact for one year. The catch is that he is married, has a two year old daughter and lives in New York City. He needs to get his wife on board with his plan which includes things like cloth diapers, home made shampoo and laundry soap, a worm compost bin in their apartment, no food that has packaging (no coffee for her!) and eventually no power to their apartment. Rather than just start living with no impact all of a sudden one day he came up with a plan of phases for living impact free. They took power away from their apartment around the 6th month. It was a really intersting documentary. I would recommend it to anyone to watch. You don't have to be interested in environmental issues to find this movie interesting. The family is really likeable and you find yourself drawn to them because they truly struggle through the year. You often feel empathy for them and root for them to keep going and not give up. He blogged his experiences throughout the year and the media really jumped on board to what he was doing once they found out about it so there is tons of info on the internet about the "no impact" project if you are interested in learning more about it. If you google it you will get 68,900,000 hits!
Watching this movie made me think of our own 365 day adventure. I think that their project was definitely harder! Both projects take alot of creativity but ours leaves more room for fun. This movie gave me more motivation to keep our project going. They suffered through a year to meet their goal. We can have fun throughout the year to meet our goal.
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This is so interesting. I used to read his blog religiously but had no idea he did a documentary! I'll have to check out.
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