Patt Morrison for Mon 8/31/09

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, August 31, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

 

1:00 – 1:30

Assembly's Plan on Prisons - Stalemate Broken?

 

 

1:30 - 2:00

OPEN

 

 

2:00 – 2:30

OPEN

 

 

2:30 – 3:00

No Toilet Paper for a Year……Are you Crazy?

Colin Beavan, his wife Michelle, their two year old child and their dog (how did we get dragged into this?) lived for one year in New York City without leaving a carbon footprint.  What was life like without ANY modern conveniences? Well for starters, no a/c in New York in the summertime (What? I’m out!), no take-out food, no dishwasher, and no elevator (they live on the top floor of a nine story building).  Wait…it gets worse, they couldn’t generate any trash (try that with a two-year old), nor could they buy anything new, and their food had to be grown within a 250-mile radius of the city.  Beavan blogged about life “off the grid” and, of course, it launched them into a book deal and a doc. Colin and Michelle weigh in with their sides of the story.

 

PATT:  "No Impact Man," the documentary, opens in Los Angeles and New York  on September 11 and nationwide a week later.  The book comes out on September 8. 

 

WEB: "No Impact Man," the documentary, opens in Los Angeles and New York  on September 11 and nationwide a week later.  The book comes out on September 8.  www.noimpactmandoc.com

 

 

Guests:

Colin Beavan, (BEH-vun) visiting scholar at New York University, writer of the noimpactman.com blog. http://noimpactman.typepad.com/

CALL HIM:  TBD

 

Michelle Conlin, wife of Colin and partner in the No Impact experiment. She is a senior writer at Business Week, where she covers the working life. 

CALL HIM:  TBD