The film, “No Impact Man,” is a documentary that is
about family who lives in one of the biggest cities in the world doing an
eco-friendly project. In the movie, an environmentalist and also a writer ‘Collin
Beavan’ is showing a project that does not affect the environment through
practical actions. The phrase itself, ‘No Impact Man’, means that one does not
affect anything to environment at all. Collin did this project for a year. Here are
several things what he and his family did.
1.
Do not make trashes
2.
Do not use any transportation such as
bus, car, elevator.
3.
Eat food from local
4.
Do not buy things unless really needed
5.
Reduce the amount of electronic energy(using
candle)
A common person makes average 0.7ton of trash in a
year, so Collin’s family decided to reduce everything which they can. They do
not use disposable things, do not buy clothes, do not use transportation, and do
not make trashes.
The most impact scene was a radio program that
Collin was in. He went to 24th floor by stairway. It was amazing how
he was passionate to do the project. Also, he and his wife ride bicycle instead
of driving car or taking bus. Later on, his wife and daughter ride a bicycle together
which they got as a support from someone.
The longer mileage that food move increase in
greenhouse gas emission, so Collin’s family go a local market in city. They buy
local organic food to reduce the greenhouse gas emission by “Food Mileage”, and
they also get fresh and inexpensive value of food.
Sobiji move from producer to food street food that
much mileage the longer the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Colin 400km
within the family , because I only buy fresh local food to eat. Local organic
food to reduce food miles , as well as fresh and inexpensive value . In fact,
without the use of disposable food sameokgi region began eating a vegetarian
dish is also being replaced are taught never shuts. By doing so, his wife
started to learn how to cook with fresh food from local food which she has
never made before. In addition, the habit of their eating even changes.
From the beginning, they removed TV in their house,
so family and neighbors sit around together and talk most likely catching up
and playing a game. It seems very nice that they have time to spare at home
because these days it is an issue that there is almost no conversation between
families and neighbors. Even after they shut down the whole electricity at
home, and they are only living with candle lights. However, they should do
their laundry in a bath tub using their feet stepping on clothes because they
also stopped using washing machine and refrigerator. They also tried to make a Nigeria
refrigerator system which is using two pots, but it turned out that the system
is not really working well. In the middle of the project, they were having too
much hard time and inconvenience, so they had argument and they were talking
about why they should do this. However, they never give up and success the one
year project success.
After one year, after the project ends, they start
to not doing the project anymore, but his wife said, “Although the project
ended, I will still ride bicycle, and I want to go to the local market. No TV.”
Although they had really hard time themselves doing this project, they finish
the project successfully and they became popular and famous as people who have
done eco-friendly environment action.
The movie, “No Impact Man,” has a strong message to regular
people that how much the awareness of practice and behavior that actually DO are
important. At the end, Collin ended up with conclusion that waste and
pollution, greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human nature, but rather is
a matter of habit in our society collectively. As he said, it is short cut that
one changes his minor habit of individualism reduces pollution.
I had really great time watching the whole movie. I
enjoyed and realized how much I am polluting our space. We should try at least
few days what Collin’s family did.
We need to protect our EARTH~
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