Walking the Walk....
WEEK 1
The first week is all about gaging my environmental impact in one week:
Monday-
Download video footage already taken. Record miles driven, times using dishwasher, times using stove, etc.
Tuesday-
Take books out of the library: The Consumers Guide to Effective Environmental Choices Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong How We Can Truly Eat Sustainable and Eat Where You Live
start reading. Keep recording environmental impact
Wednesday-
Contact Liz Walker, author of Choosing A Sustainable Future. Keep recording environmental impact
Thursday-
Go to Ludgates, Brooktons Market, Greenstar, The Piggery. Make a list of local foods. keep recording...
Friday-
Keep reading. Set up interview with local farmer, local self-sustaining neighbor, or local passive solar house owner. keep recording
Saturday-
Set up cooking classes for next week. Read about local eating. 2 more days left of recoding
Sunday-
Plug all information into online environmental calculator. Create excel graph for water usage, electricity usage, money spent, miles driven etc. to be used for the next 16 weeks
WEEK 2
and here we go...
Monday-
Contact carpool buy local food. keep reading and recording
Tuesday-
Bike to school. Contact another interview candidate. Keep reading and recording
Wednesday-
Contact home retrofitter to look at how drafty the house is. Keep reading and recording
Thursday-
Carpool. Read. Take cooking class
Friday-
Reflect on how project is going.
Saturday-
Read. interview. record
Sunday-
Calculate impact for week
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