Week 2

This week my three days of cutting down on water/electricity use and waste production was relatively successful. I have learned that its pretty easy for me to reduce my electricity consumption by just spending more of my time being outside and active, in the gym, playing soccer, or taking a nap. When im outside being active I spend less time sitting on the computer with the lights on in our room and have less of an urge to snack. So in the end being active encourages less energy usage, and we are healthier for it in the process. Another thing that I learned this week is that everything comes in a wrapper and I love snacking. Managing my waste production has been and still is my toughest area of the lifestyle project. Alot of cutting back on waste is about planning ahead. So when im not on my lifestyle project and i go buy all these snacks and they sit on my shelf its quite tempting to eat them and then u get nothing other than a bunch of trash. So my snacking habbit has frustrated me a bit this week but my roommate had a good theory and that was that I eat because im bored. So I figure I need to find something productive to do with all this freetime I have nowadays. Other than trash I have continued to find it easy to use less water, I can walk in and out of the shower and 2-3 minutes and not run the sink untill i need to rinse. I use the water fountain alot more now to fill up a water bottle instead of bying the 28 packs of ozarka water bottles that I used to use. As far as energy consumption goes this week while I was turning things off I thought why do we have two AC units on full blast all the time, so i turned them off and opened up the window and just like that it was cold. This computer is the only thing that I really use now that consumes electicity, besides my alarm clock and my phone charger. So overall I am pretty happy about this week. I feel that I have continued to lessin my impact on the environment and it will be hard to improve upon next week. I welcome the challenge though.