Synopsis: Colin Beavan, author, and newly self-proclaimed environmentalist, decides to leave behind a life of liberal complacency for a vow to make zero environmental impact for one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption…no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping wife Michelle, and their young toddler, enter the fray. [Synopsis courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories]
Intriguingly high concept yet visually and structurally artless in the way of so many modern documentaries, Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's "No Impact Man" chronicles Colin Beavan's yearlong experiment to reduce his carbon footprint as much as possible while living in New York City. Necessarily pa...
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