Wesley Johnson

Day 4
My commitments are to not use plastic bags, not use plastic bottles, spend an extra half an hour outside every day, and use recycled paper. Also I have been trying to do the class comitment as well, which is to turn off all unnecessary lights.

Today went really well for about everything except the lights. I didn't use any paper, plastic bags, or plastic bottles. Also I spent some quality time outside in the woods today. The problem is that because I have enjoyed my time outside I think I would be going outside even if we wee not doing this project. Normally I would say that this is good, however, my commitment was to spend an extra half an hour outside during which I would normally be inside. but now its time which I would normally outside, so I don't know if that still counts. the reason why the lights have not gone to well is that i keep forgetting, i just don't think about it. i think that maybe if i was paying the electric bill i would be more conscious of lights, but as of right now lights are just light. Lights are just scenery in a room, a tool that used without thinking. another thing that i have been wondering about is my car, they automatically go on and they are on all day. Technically i don't need to have my headlights on during the day but they just come on all on there own. so far attempting to make these changes has not been hard for me, and i think that its because they are not drastic changes. 1) I enjoy being outside so its not real hard to do that commitment. 2)on a normal basis i don't use plastic bags that often. i think if i was doing my own grocery shopping it would be a harder commitment. 3) As for no plastic bottles, it has not been a hard change for the only time i used those was during Frisbee practice and we have a team water jug so its not really needed. so although it is an actual change its not difficult. 4)using recycled paper is probably my most difficult change. This is because I really like my things to have clear separations between them. So using recycled paper makes me feel really cluttered and unorganized.