Philip French 

No Impact Man

This fascinating American documentary is like a funnier – and less smug – version of The Good Life, says Philip French
  
  

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Colin Beavan with his daughter in No Impact Man. Photograph: Public Domain

The documentary Super Size Me recorded Morgan Spurlock's near suicidal decision to spend a month eating nothing but McDonald's junk food. This fascinating documentary follows New York writer Colin Beavan in the opposite direction when he decides to spend a year with his wife (a journalist on Business Week) and little daughter making no impact on the environment by rejecting meat, lavatory paper, electricity, restaurant meals etc etc. It's like a real-life American version of The Good Life but funnier, less smug and more instructive.

 

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