00:00My first guest today is No Impact Man.
00:03Colin Bevan just walked up 24 flights of stairs
00:06to avoid consuming electricity in an elevator.
00:11It's a one-year experiment.
00:13Right.
00:14And it's extreme.
00:15No soda cans, no water in plastic bottles.
00:17Don't buy new products.
00:18Cancelling our magazine and newspaper subscriptions.
00:20No throwaway plastic razors, no airplanes, no subways, no taxis, no elevators.
00:25Is it possible to have a good life without wasting so much?
00:28I'm worried that I'm not going to be able to do it.
00:30They're going to take the TV away.
00:31Mommy's a little bit addicted to the TV.
00:35Your project.
00:36I thought it was our project.
00:38Oh, yeah.
00:41It's No Impact Man.
00:43It's his book and it's his project and he's No Impact Man.
00:46But the project is our family is doing this.
00:51The average American creates 1,600 pounds of trash a year.
00:55We're trying to reduce that to zero.
00:57I'm like a high fructose corn syrup addicted, meat eating, take out junkie, no meat, no fish.
01:03I just want to go get it like a baked good.
01:05Why do you think foods in our hearts for you?
01:06Because I can't eat anything that tastes good.
01:10You're getting rid of all the cosmetics.
01:11Is that okay?
01:12Yeah, babe, that sounds like a great idea.
01:15Basically, this is easy for Colin and this is just like murder for me.
01:18Mom doesn't really like nature, but Dad likes nature.
01:21I am now going to go get an iced quad espresso and maybe two.
01:25I don't know.
01:26It just doesn't work.
01:28The Times makes it sound like part change the world, part gimmick for your next book.
01:32Do you cop to that?
01:33Isn't it making you so fringe and wacko that you'll just be discounted as a fringe wacko?
01:38I'm just asking rhetorically.
01:40This is what you call kicking Dad's ass.
01:50This is for our family.
01:52It's not just about the project.
01:53What if we called it the year I lost 20 pounds without going to the gym once?
01:57Or the year we didn't watch TV and we became much better parents as a result?
02:01Or the year we ate locally and seasonally and it ended up reversing my wife's pre-diabetic condition?
02:07What's your nose?
02:08They're fireflies.
02:11Just reminds me of our TV.
02:12Maybe ours was a little bigger.
02:18How do I say this without sounding like a dick?
02:20I get upset to see things individually wrapped in plastic.
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