Colin Beavan

Colin Beavan is an American non-fiction author and blogger. He became known through the experiment, one year to live with his family in New York City with " zero impact ". The rules of the experiment was to produce no waste except compost, nothing to buy except food produced within a 250 -mile radius, using no carbon- based transportation, and using no paper products, including toilet paper. He and his family were the subject of the documentary No Impact Man: The Documentary, directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin license. A book about the duration of experiment was released in September 2009 under the German title " Barefoot in Manhattan - My ecologically correct adventures ".

MSN counted Beavan to the Ten Most Influential Men of 2007; Elle magazine named him at the 2008 Green Awards an Eco - Illuminator. Time magazine credited his blog NoImpactMan.com 's 15 most important environmental sites in the world.

• No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process Farrar, Straus, and Giroux New York City - 2009 ISBN 978-0-374-22288 -8 German by Claudia Feldmann: Barefoot in Manhattan: My ecologically correct adventures, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag 2010

• Conservation