Hawaii International Film Festival 2009

No shopping bags. No TV. No A/C. No carbon emissions. No packaging. No trash. No electricity. No…toilet paper? Colin Beavan is a man with a blog and a mission: to live one year with no net impact on the environment. To do so means giving up many of the things that we, as a society of consumers, accept as necessities to daily life. But Bevan's resolve is strong. One question remains: While one man's desire to live a carbon footprint-less existence may reduce his impact on the earth, what impact will it have on his family? Laura Gabbert & Justin Schein's documentary No Impact Man is a fascinating and often beautiful look into one extraordinary year in the life of one ordinary man, his wife and their child. The daily life of New York City provides a poignant backdrop to this true story of one man's quest to be ineffective. -- Chris Claxton