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Join The No Impact Experiment Week

What is the Experiment?

The No Impact Experiment is a one-week carbon cleanse. It is a chance for you to see what a difference no-impact living can have on your quality of life. It’s not about giving up creature comforts but an opportunity for you to test whether the modern “conveniences” you take for granted are actually making you happier or just eating away at your time and money.

Joining is simple! Click here to sign up.

Visit How It Works for step-by-step instructions and download the How-To Manual for day-by-day guidelines. Watch inspiring videos from past participants about their lessons from the week and what motivated them to try it.

You will receive everything you need to participate in this experiment via e-mail from the people at the No Impact Project, including an addendum of the many different resources and activities on the IWU campus throughout the week of Sept. 12-19. What are you waiting for, sign up today!

Please register no later than Friday, Sept. 10. For more information, contact Wellness at (309) 556-3334 or wellness@iwu.edu.

Hear No Impact Man Colin Beavan at the President’s Convocation

No Impact Man author Colin Beavan will speak at the Sept. 8 President’s Convocation, followed by the campus community’s own No Impact Experiment Week.

Author Colin Beavan, known for his blog and book, No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process (Picador, 2009), will address the President’s Convocation at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 8, in Westbook Auditorium of Presser Hall (1210 N. Park St., Bloomington). The title of his speech will be “No Impact Man.” The event is free and open to the public.

Come See No Impact Man!

Bring friends, family and complete strangers to this showing of No Impact Man, in preparation for Colin Beavan’s visit to Illinois Wesleyan’s campus. Learn about ways you can reduce your footprint on our planet by witnessing one man’s incredible sacrifices for the sake of Mother Earth.

TUESDAY, Sept 7 @ 7 p.m.

Beckman Auditorium in The Ames Library

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006.  A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal complacency and vows to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year.  No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption…no problem.  That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife, Michelle, and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray.  What began as one man’s environmental experiment quickly becomes an experiment in how much one woman is willing to sacrifice for her husband’s dreams.  Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein’s film provides both a front-row seat into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, and a behind-the-scenes look at the marital challenges that result from Colin and Michelle’s radical lifestyle change.