Colin Beavan, Ph.D., author, writer, blogger, consultant, engaged citizen, AKA, No Impact Man will speak at Molloy College on Thursday April 14, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the Hays Theatre,Wilbur Arts Center.
In November, 2006, Colin Beavan launched a year-long project in which he, his wife, his two-year-old daughter and his four-year-old dog went “off-the-grid” and attempted to live in themiddle of New York City with as little environmental impact as possible.
The point of the project was to experiment with ways of living that might both improve qualityof life and be less harmful to the planet. It also provided a narrative vehicle by which to attractbroad public attention to the range of pressing environmental crises including: food systemsustainability, climate change, water scarcity, and materials and energy resource depletion. The experiment in lifestyle redesign is the subject of his book and a Sundance-selected documentary.
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Beavan writes and administers the provocative environmental blog NoImpactMan.Com,which has become a meeting point for discussion of environmental issues from a “deep green”perspective. In addition to some 2,500 daily visitors and 4,000 daily page views, the site has10,000 email and “newsreader” subscribers. About 1.8 million people have visited the blog sincehe established it a year and a half ago.
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