Green Drinks Columbus

Zero-impact living hit the big screen last week when Green Drinks Columbus visited Studio 35 in Clintonville.

The event featured a screening of the documentary No Impact Man, which follows a Manhattan family as they undertake a yearlong experiment to have zero impact on the environment.

The project was initially planned as just a blog (solar-powered, of course), but quickly became something more. For a year, Colin Beavan and his family filmed their efforts to produce no trash (using an indoor compost bin), only eat food grown from within a 250-mile radius, use no paper products (even toilet paper!) and cut out all electricity. Amazingly, they fared very well.

For more info on the next Green Drinks event, click to greendrinks.org.