[Sparko]

"Colin Beavan, also known as "No Impact Man"

I only have one thing to say. Bet you a beer that that his neighbors and wife call him "Impacted Man."

[Argus]

Well, I assume we’re taking No Impact Man’s word for it that he “shunned toilet paper” for a year. I mean, how do you fact-check a claim like that?

Please, nobody answer. It’s a rhetorical question.

[MNDude]

I believe this man was standing in line in front of me at the MN State Fair.

[Zeppelin]

Between the filming and the hundreds of thousands of TV sets turned on to watch his bit, what’s the “carbon footprint” of his appearance on ABC???

Also, did he not breathe for a year?

[a fool in paradise]

On Thursday’s Good Morning America, for the third time in two years, Sam Champion interviewed an extreme environmentalist who shunned toilet paper for a year as part of a project to be carbon neutral.

[a fool in paradise]

Some would just call him muslim man. Please, don't let him make the pizza dough.

[jacknhoo]

Don’t shake his hand.

[Pox]

If he’s still breathing he’s adding to the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, so it seems to me his project failed.

[savedbygrace]

One can only hope his water bill increased significantly during that year.

But I doubt it.

[lurk]

Law of unintended consequences is showing up more every day.

No impact man, I would guess, has created significant impact on his social life by his lifestyle choices.

[ctdonath2]

TP aside, I applaud his efforts. Ya know that idea that if you go too far in one direction you’ll end up coming back from the other side? What he did was a great exercise in survivalism - hardly a Leftist notion. He examined his life, simplified, got in touch with where it all comes from, and developed self-reliant ways (insofar as he still lived deep in a city). Should disaster have befallen his region, he would have been one of the few to get by - considering most of his neighbors couldn’t even get home or open a can without “the grid”. Inconvenient at times, yes, but that’s the tradeoff for independence.

[The Great RJ]

My grandparents lived in a sod house in northwestern South Dakota 100 years ago. Needless to say the “house” had no running water, modern plumbing or electricity. I guess I would have to go back to the way my grandparents lived as to not hurt the planet. However I was wondering if burning prairie grass and buffalo chips in the stove emits too much CO2?

[Gator113]

Everyone better learn how to recognize poison oak and poison ivy, because before the libs are done, we could be back to using leaves.

[SJSAMPLE]

I wonder if they bothered to shake his hand?

[TheDon]

Sam Champion interviewed an extreme environmentalist who shunned toilet paper for a year as part of a project to be carbon neutral.

Sorry, I can't consider Sam extreme until he stops breathing for a year. Then he would be carbon neutral.