This week in Science (No Impact Man

  No impact man is a New Yorker who was starting a project to do things without causing impact to the environment. He and his family couldn't hurt the environment for a year. His project required him to not use plastic , paper , outside foods and most other food and he had to recycle and reuse everything. The only food he and his family could eat are foods that are naturally grown and he had to know how the food was harvested. After five months he couldn't even use electricity he had to get his light by natures daylight. They also could throw out any trash outside so he had a bucket of worms decomposing the garbage. The project didn't seem so hard for him but his wife was really struggling to complete it but they both put a lot of effort into it and they didn't impact the environment for a year.

  Impact man's behavior helps him lower is negative impact on the enviously because he wasn't hurting the environment at all. He was using things that were naturally grown into the environment or he wasn't using things that hurt it he was all natural. Impact man was trying to stop everything to hurt the environment because people were destroying the environment by producing so much garbage and using things processed. Impact man also behaved very well during his mission because never did he give one complain that he needed something that he couldn't use he was also trying to help his wife because she was really struggling but never did he give up.
 
    When I was watching this film I couldn't believe how he and his family was doing it because its so hard to quit all the good things for a year. I saw they gave up mostly all the foods and I thought to myself how can they do it because I know I can't I love eating outside foods and other things. I also thought it was crazy they took off their electricity because that means they had no refrigerator , no tv , no computer I don't know how they lived like that for a year because I know I'll go crazy if I had no tv for a year and all those other things. I think its a great accomplishment because us as americans hurt the environment daily and for him to not hurt it for a year its a big thing I'll be very proud if that was me.