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Although the film version of
No Impact Man, starring author Colin Beavan, subject of a Q&A published earlier today, takes place in New York City and a handful of other nearby locales, there's a piece of Colorado on Beavan's
NoImpactProject.orgwebsite. The welcome video seen above, which encourages people to try and replicate Beavan's year-long attempt to make no impact on the environment for a week, was put together pro bono by Colorado Springs-based Dave Gardner, the man behind a nonprofit documentary project called
Growthbusters. It's appropriate, then, that Growthbusters is sponsoring tonight's 7 p.m. screening of
No Impact Manat the Chez Artiste. Gardner will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterward. During the conversation, he'll no doubt mention that today has been designated Earth Overshoot Day by the
Global Footprint Network; he describes it via e-mail as "the day they calculate humankind's demand for the year surpasses the planet's sustainable supply." Betcha he also notes that he'll be showing clips from
Hooked on Growth, his own documentary project, which is currently in production, at the Pikes Peak EcoFestival in Colorado Springs. Visit
the fest's Facebook pagefor more details.
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