Day 1

The items I am going to try to give up are:

Plastic Bags
Non-Recyclable Cans and Bottles
New Paper

I am going to also try to reduce my overall trash, I know this is going to be really hard without giving up shopping. Pretty much all food comes in some sort of wrapper, most of which cannot be recycled. I am going to try to avoid those, but I also need to be able to live.

I am also going try to drive more efficiently. This means not accelerating hard, breaking hard, and overall driving badly.

As a part of the class challenge I have agreed to not use any more lights than necessary. This means not leaving lights on when we aren't in the room or when you can still use natural lighting. I don't think this will be as much of a challenge because we already do this fairly often. Dark rooms don't bother me so even when I am in a room around dusk, I won't turn on the lights.

I am also going to try to get my family in on this. This will be especially hard because I don't live with my dad and his family uses a lot of plastics and wastes a lot.

So this will be a fairly interesting couple of weeks....