Hey, so the first week is done, and it has produced predictable, but interesting results. The first, reducing my heat, was easy enough, as I spent little time in my room, and it was an overall warm week anyway. The garbage issue was not too difficult, except it required me to drive to Target to buy separate garbage and composting bins. My dorm comes with two recycle bins, but no garbage bins, so my roommate and I had been using the recycle bins as garbage bins. After creating the alternative, I was able to produce no trash for either Thursday or Friday, instead creating recycle, and more importantly, compost. As a segue into eating efficiently, the things I cooked were done with creating less waste in mind. The only meat I cooked was breakfast sausage, which is meat, but generally made of meat from less desirable parts of the animal that are often discarded, gaining more usage out of the total animal. I also cooked eggs using bacon fat instead of butter. While this doesn't sound very environmentally friendly, (or heart healthy either) it is, on a certain level, because although I did, in fact cook bacon earlier in the week, I was able to avoid throwing away the fat, gaining more usage out of one pig's flesh than otherwise, and avoid using butter or some other form of grease, oil, or whatever to cook the eggs in. Eggs are also a more sustainable form of protein than meat, because one chicken can produce a great number of eggs without being harmed. (And yes, I paid double for the cage-free chickens.)