Husband out of town, I got a sitter and went solo to see, “No Impact Man“. I had read all about him when he first stopped using toilet paper ( great NYTIMES piece) and knew there would be some commercial arc to the story when he finished his one year mission to reduce his (and his reluctant family’s) impact. I won’t go on and on here…but I did have a few takeaways:
-My family does a pretty good job in our house of reducing our impact and I sure as hell hope we don’t come across nearly as pedantic when we talk about it publicly as Colin Beavan did in this film and on his blog.
-The movie/blog/book are good conversation starters (but don’t necessarily require a “discussion guide” as provided on the No Impact Man website).
-So, if they got rid of toilet paper and used cloth and washed their clothes in the tub all together, what??? I’m not above focusing on that issue. I’m just not.
‘Nuf said.
