The documentary No Impact Man follows the environmentally epic, year-long journey of Colin Beavan, his wife Machelle Conlin, their year-old little daughter and their dog as they try to live a life of zero negative, net impact. These means no transport (that isn't self-propelled), no takeout food, no electricity, no factory made cleaners, no imported food, no new anything and no toilet paper for a whole year.
Colin Beavan started the Year of No Impact with the modest hope that his families efforts might change something. He was planning to write a book about the experience, but he had no idea that his radical experiment would cause such a stir.
No Impact Man was directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein and filmed in New York City, New York, U.S.A. in 2009. The documentary was released late 2009 early 2010.
The idea for a filmed bloomed when Machelle was having dinner with some of her friends who happened to be well connected in the movie biz. They had heard of the launching of the idea of the No Impact Man book and thought it would be powerful as a documentary.
I think it is a very good documentary to have out there, regarding the environment. Colin Beavan said that the journey was a philosophical one, not a scientific one. It's refreshing. In the history of documentaries advocating for the environment first philosophy was used, but [some] people ignored it. Science was then tried out. It swayed more people, freaked out some, confused others, was still ignored (by some). No Impact Man is bringing us full circle and I think more people than ever are waking up.
I give No Impact Man 4 ½ stars. It was a pretty effective documentary, but it was a documentary. That half star is for entertainment, it was entertaining but I had to pay attention, I couldn't get distracted or snack on popcorn (ohmygoodness, where does my popcorn come from? Ah!...at least it's not microwaved...)
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