Sunday, February 6, 2011

The 2 Week Plan

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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