Lifestyle Project week 1

Well, after keeping track of the baseline data from last week has helped me even more with remembering small things. Since my roommate saw what I was doing, she has become much more conscious about turning off lights and adding food to our compost. We don't eat meat ever so that helps. My bike has been stolen so that does not help. The plastic water bottles that are brought to our apartment are now being used to cool water in the refrigerator so we can poor it in cups and drink it and then we should recycle them soon. I am really conscious of how long my showers are, because I used to take really long ones. If I eat in the commons I don't use a tray and it makes me feel really good because I am saving a gallon and a half of water and wasting 30% less food (I try not to waste any). That is so much reduction by just carrying your plate in your hand! This Thursday I will not be in class because our Theater for Social Justice group is performing our Enviro-Play for Cooper Elementary's entire fourth grade class. We have edited the script for them and left time to break up into small groups and have discussions afterwards. We are also going to make flyers for them to take home to put on their refrigerator with information and reminders about food consumption, energy consumption and compostable items and the Georgetown Farmer's Market. They should have a lot of fun. For my activist project, I have a meeting set up next week to talk with some of the men at the physical plant about the sprinkler system and how it works. I am really going to try to work with them to find a way to make our campus sprinkler system more efficient so that gallons of water are not wasted on the sidewalk. So we will see how this goes...