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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 32 min. 37 sec.) ; 557965310 bytes |
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*Coarse Language*Sunday Best screening Sunday nights on ABC2, is the home of an outstanding collection of game-changing and thought-provoking feature length documentaries. We've done the work to bring you the best must- see intelligent docos that are just too good to miss.In 2006, author Colin, his wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter Isabella began the 'No Impact Man project'. The goal: to make as little environmental impact as possible while living on lower 5th Avenue in Manhattan.Before the project began, Colin and his family were SUV driving, fast food eating New Yorkers who would assuage their guilt with some good old American retail therapy. But Colin grew weary of his political convictions not lining up with his personal habits. So, in order to 'walk the talk', he decided for his next book to embrace a carbon-free, environmentally friendly lifestyle and call himself 'No Impact Man'. For starters, that would mean no trash, no electricity, no cars, no TV, and no buying anything new for an entire year.No Impact Man presents an intimate emotional portrait of a couple struggling through a severe change in their way of life. Over the course of a year, the filmmakers documented what happens to Colin and Michelle's emotional life as they alter their entire lifestyle. How do they cope with the constant stress and intermittent crises of such a rigorous way of living? Or, perhaps, when life is pared down, do some things become unexpectedly better or even easier?PRODUCTION DETAILS:No Impact Man by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein |
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Broadcast 2013-07-14 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Environmental protection -- Psychological aspects.
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Environmental responsibility.
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Environmentalism.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Sustainable living.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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Gabbert, Laura, director
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Schein, Justin, director
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Beavan, Colin, cast
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Conlin, Michelle, cast
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