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3/12/2010   |   By Mindful Metropolis MindfuLive! No Impact Man, April 8th, 2010

Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year.




A Special Chicago Showing
April 8, 2010


Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year.



It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity, no material consumption, and no garbage.
 
No problem – at least for Colin – but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshiping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray, the No Impact Project has an unforeseen impact of its own.
 
Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides an intriguing inside look into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, while examining the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.

April 8, 2010, 5:30pm
The Green Street Theater in The Chicago Center for Performing Arts
777 N. Green Street (near Halsted & Chicago Ave)


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The doors open at 5:30 PM. Light fare will be served, catered by City Provisions and desserts by The Chicago Diner.

So come early and enjoy the opportunity to meet our sponsors and other MindfuLive! supporters. The film will begin at 7PM and will run approximately 90 minutes. Afterward, there will be a brief presentation (until roughly 9:30PM) by local experts who will take questions from the audience.

The presentation will include these experts:

Wyllys Mann: Associate Director for the Delta Institute, Director of the Green Business Development Center

Deborah Neiman-Boehle: Journalist, Writer, Homesteader

Ken Dunn, Founder and President of Resource Center



Tickets are $15 in advance and can be purchased here. There will be tickets available at the door for $20, but only cash will be accepted.

There is street parking near the theater, and paid parking on the North side of Chicago Ave. The theater is easily accessible from the CTA.

View photos from our last MindfuLive! event here.

Thank you to these generous sponsors who helped make this event possible (click on image to visit each sponsor):



  • This is great. Not sure if I would be able to do a whole year without my toys, but WOW. I can only imagine all that I would save (financially and spiritually).

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