It's Not Easy Being Green

I try to live a low-impact lifestyle. I'm a vegetarian, and I buy organic and local whenever possible. I use only non-toxic cleaning products and recycled toilet paper. I think I'm pretty mindful of my carbon footprint. Of course, I still drive a car, and my energy isn't supplied by solar panels or wind power. I'm low-impact -- but I'm not no-impact. That just seems, well, too hard, if I'm being totally honest.

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• Colin Beavan
• University of Colorado at Boulder
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Colin Beavan might have had some misgivings about completing eliminating his personal impact on the environment for an entire year, but he did it anyway. His experiment -- which included his wife and two-year-old daughter by default -- was documented by the filmmakers of No-Impact Man, which follows Beavan on a journey that to some people would sound like hell. No meat and only local food; no refrigerator (yes, really); no elevators; no television; no long-distance travel and no travel by car, bus or airplane, period; no electricity; no garbage -- and no material consumption. And that's just the start of what he said no to.

No-Impact Man screens tonight at 7 and 9 p.m. in the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Muenzinger Auditorium as part of its International Film Series; tickets are $6, $5 for CU students. Call 303-492-1531 or visit www.internationalfilmseries.com.
Thu., Oct. 1, 2009