My New Life

This project ended up being surprisingly easier than I expected, I had to make some adjustments in my original plan but i feel like I am now making less of an impact of the world. I started out making myself be really hardcore and almost over the top trying to do as much as I could to change my life and then by the second week I realized that I may be able to stand doing this for this project but what about after? Wasn't this suppose to be a LIFE project, so I decided to change my look on this project and actually make changes that I could apply to my everyday life. I still did the whole be super serious on the specific days but was also very environmentally aware on the other days. I have cut my shower down by two minutes on average, and my energy usage has gone way down. I have started using natural light all day everyday, and after realizing that the big light in my room used less energy than my lamp I am more willing to use it. Our room is always very hot so we would always have two fans running, obviously that was a huge waste of energy so along with using natural light I started using the cool breeze to try to lower the temp in my room. Along with me my roommate realized how much energy she was using decided to begin trying to conserve energy also, usually I would walk in the room and every single light would be on and I have told her how wasteful she was being so when I started the project she started to watch her energy intake as well. A long with using less energy in my room I have stopped taking the elevator, only taking it when I do laundry or bring up groceries. I also did the food project, my biggest change was the amount of food I wasted. At first I was doing the vegeterian thing but like I said I wanted to make this an actual change to my life something that would stick so I changed my focus to not cutting it out all the way but trying to choose more vegetables and fruits. My main focus with food was not wasting any, I didn't realize how much I was wasting till I made myself pay attention, instead of throwing it out I started either saving it for later or composting it. The last part of my project was leaving my car at home which wasn't a hard thing to do especially during the last week when my battery died, but before it did I would only drive if I really needed to and if I was carpooling, like going to the grocery store etc. Over all i enjoyed this project more than I anticapted and made some life long changes that I probably wouldn't have even known to make if it wasn't for this project and this class.