Colin Beavan

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Colin Beavan at the 2009 Texas Book Festival.

Colin Beavan (* 1963 ) is an American non-fiction author and blogger . He became known through the experiment of living with his family for a year in New York City with "zero impact".

The rules of the experiment included not producing any waste but compost , buying nothing but food produced within a 250 mile radius, not using carbon- based transportation, and not using 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 Schein. A book about the permanent experiment was published in September 2009 under the German title "Barefoot in Manhattan - My ecologically correct adventure".

MSN named Beavan one of the Ten Most Influential Men of 2007 ; Elle magazine named it an eco-illuminator at the 2008 Green Awards . The Time Magazine counted his blog NoImpactMan.com 's 15 most important environmental sites in the world.

Books

  • 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 -8th
  • Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War - 2006 ISBN 978-0-670-03762-9
  • Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science - 2001 ISBN 978-0-7868-8528-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beavan, Colin 1963-. In: Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved September 21, 2016 .
  2. ^ Penelope Green: The Year Without Toilet Paper . The New York Times . March 22, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2008.
  3. ↑ No Impact Man: Extreme Green Living . ABC News. June 25, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2008.
  4. ↑ US family tries life without toilet paper . BBC News. September 19, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Beavan, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American non-fiction author and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH 1963