Less Laziness = More Sustainable

Again its been a bit, Midterms keeping everyone busy. Mid-crits kept us up late and tests kept us studying instead of sleeping. Our goal from the start has been to lessen the footprint we make on the environment. What I have been doing to lessen recycling is to reuse plastic bottles and fill them with water and add gatorade mix instead of buying more gatorade bottles. Today we cleaned the room up a little as a little mid-semester cleaning. The great thing about that was that most of what we thought was "trash" was really just paper, cardboard, chipboard, and rigid blue insulation (styrofoam). All of which can be recycled. So what in years past were just thrown away out of laziness was now all recycled.

Sustainable from the start ... no end in sight for our townhouse.

I thank Jon and Zach for taking issue with the recycling/trash weigh-ins. I think this would be a good time to find our center on this and all other issues about the EcoChallenge by defining Sustainability as it relates to our efforts during this EcoChallenge. I have written a sort of mission statement below. Please feel free to read, edit or respond to the following statement:

"The residents of Townhouse D are committed to a Sustainable lifestyle. It is a systemic concept that has us consider the relationships between the social, institutional and environmental aspects of our existence. We constantly assess the way we live against one litmus test. We expect our basic human needs to be met while preserving the local ecocsystem, in order to maintain the same quality of life for future residents."

If you want to learn more about Living Green I have attached an article that I found really interesting. It gives statistics of what cities and countries are the pathfinders of this renewed commitment to sustainability.

PLEASE NOTE: The United States doesn't rank in the Top 5 of any survey!