Author Colin Beavan was tired of writing about the problems that face our world and merely talking about environmental change.  He decided the time had come to try out change on himself, and convinced his wife and 2-year old daughter to go along.  The idea was to see whether they could be happy without being consumers and without contributing to the many pressures that modern lifestyles place upon the earth.  He dubbed himself, “No Impact Man” and created a blog and a couple friends decided to document the process. When it was all over, he thought, he could write a book.  Simple enough, it seems, but nothing is ever quite as simple as it seems. (more…)