My dream
I want to escape the rat race, to write articles instead of reports, to own my own house, to have enough land to grow my own vegetables and maybe have a chicken or two... I want to lead a low-impact lifestyle, to ride my bicycle as much as possible, to have a cat again.
I want to be free.
No Impact Man has similar dreams. He's freed himself of garbage, carbon emissions, elevators, subways, plastic, air conditioning, and television, just to name a few. It's all part of a 1-year experiment to lead a no net impact lifestyle. He eats only organic food, uses no paper, composts everything, buys nothing, and is dragging his wife and 2-year old daughter along for the ride.
No Impact Man, aka Colin Beavan, and his wife are both writers, which to me is about as free as you can get while still earning an income. As inspiring as their no-impact lifestyle is their ability to make enough money to perform this experiment in the first place.
How did they become free?
No Impact Man Blog
The Year Without Toilet Paper - New York Times, March 22, 2007
