When my friend told me about the No Impact Man blog I was interested, and then was grateful as I became more and more involved reading the near daily entrys. Colin Beavan’s blog posts were down to earth and inspiring in the simplicity of the experiment and how doable no or low impact living could be.
One of my favorite posts was about second sleep. With out electric lights you go to sleep when it is dark, but then you tend to awaken for a few hours later in the night. I spent some time looking this up and was intrigued to find that this used to be common. People would actually socialize for a couple hours in the middle of the night. It is possible this interested me because I am having my own personal issues with sleep right now, but it really made me think about how removed modern life has taken us from even our natural human sleep rhythms.
Nearing the end of his year long experiment his graphs on the relation of no impact and happiness really proved that his year had been a valid experiment with a positive measurable outcome. I believe that using less or none actually gave him the time to assess his happiness, something that the pace of modern life doesn’t allow.
I am looking forward to seeing the movie of his No Impact Experiment, and hope to read the book-as soon as I can get it from the library, or used.
source:No Impact Man|Wikipedia
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