Film Screening: No Impact Man

Title: Film Screening: No Impact Man
Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church; 5200 Fannin at the corner of Southmore, two blocks north of the Museum Stop of the Light Rail
Description: Houston Climate Protection Alliance will screen the documentary “No Impact Man” at First Unitarian Universalist Church.

This provocative film is fun. No Impact Man persuaded his wife and child to reduce their impact on the planet by changing their daily habits for a year. They started with buying less and ended with shutting off their electricity. At the end of the year, they were happy to get their fridge back but realized they wanted to keep many of their new habits.

To have no impact,
· they got rid of their TV, and found they had more time for each other and for themselves.
· she battled with her shop-aholic ways of buying herself fancy clothes and found she didn’t miss them.
· they quit eating out all the time, instead cooking local food from the farmer’s market and their health had improved.
· they walked to work and found this also improved their health.
· he began helping local environmental groups and found he enjoyed it.

No Impact Man challenges us. How can we enjoy life while reducing our impact on our environment? At this film showing, you can join us in pledging to reduce our impact during the national climate work party starting October 10 sponsored by www.350.org

For more information, contact Nancy Edwards
NEEdwards@comcast.net, 713-661-9737 or
If you can’t join us in watching the film, you can view it online at www.netflix.com

For a larger picture on Being and/or Living Green go to:

http://www.350.org/ OR
http://noimpactproject.org/
Start Time: 13:15
Date: 2010-09-05