Host a Free Screening of No Impact Man Documentary

The No Impact Project asked me to let congregations know about an opportunity to host a free screening of the documentary No Impact Man.   Watch the trailer for No Impact Man (note that the trailer has some offensive language, but the DVD comes with a "clean" version).  Below is information from the No Impact Project:

Hosting a screening of No Impact Man, the Sundance-selected documentary following one man’s quest to live with no environmental impact for one year with his family in New York City is a great opportunity for your community to get together to discuss environmental issues and take action. And thanks to generous support from the 11th Hour Project, faith-based organizations are invited to participate in our special community-screening event for free. In addition, participants are can purchase copies of No Impact Man the book at half-off retail price. If your faith group would like to screen No Impact Man, please email Lindsay at the No Impact Project: Lindsay@noimpactproject.org.

SYNOPSIS: A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasons-loving wife along for the ride. And that’s just the beginning. Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man’s decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year - while living in NYC - to see if it’s possible to make no net impact on the environment. In other words, no trash, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no air-conditioning, no television....

What would it be like to try to live a no-impact lifestyle?  Is it possible? Could it catch on? Is living this way more satisfying or less satisfying? Harder or easier? Is it worthwhile or senseless? These are the questions at the heart of this whole mad endeavor, through which Colin Beavan hopes to explain to the rest of us how we can realistically live a more “eco-effective” and, by turns, a more content life in an age of inconvenient truths.