No impact man : the adventures of a guilty liberal who attempts to save the planet, and the discoveries he makes about himself and our way of life in the process / Colin Beavan.

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How a schlub like me gets mixed up in a stunt like this -- Day one and the whole thing is a big mistake -- What you think when you find your life in the trash -- If only pizza didn´t come on paper plates -- How to reduce your carbon footprint and anger your mom at the same time -- The cabbage diet saves the world -- Conspicuous nonconsumption -- Click and the lights go out -- Trying to do enough good to outweigh the harm -- Epilogue : life after the year without toilet paper.

Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man´s decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year--while still living in New York City--to see if it´s possible to make no net impact on the environment. In other words, no trash, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no air-conditioning, no television. After this mad endeavor, Beavan explains to the rest of us how we can realistically live a more ´eco-effective´ and by turns more content life in an age of inconvenient truths.