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I hope that my blog about Colloquium might enlighten you a little bit about my personal experiences in this class. I will be adding to it from week to week as the semester progresses. I think that the blog will turn out to be a resourceful tool for me to use to monitor my own adventure from another persons perspective as I come bck to read it from time to time. Enjoy!

Monday, September 27, 2010

My Personal Ecological FootPrint

According to sustainability.pulicrado.org  I am making some right choices but it would still take 3.4 earths to sustain all the people on the planet if they lived just like me.  I have to laugh at this!  I am a single parent living on a small income so I am frugal with electricity, gas and things as such.  When I am out of money I am out!  I try to make it last as long as I possibly can by not taking leisure trips and by making as much out of every trip I do take. 

I reuse the same water bottle over and over,  I try to eat as many fruits and veggies as I can and reduce comsumption of electricity by eating out where someone else is going to use the power whether I am there or not.  OK that is just a little joke.  I do recycle when I can but not as often as I should. The reason for this is that I can not put things outside of my condo and dont have room in it to sort everything.  I will rethink this. 

There is alot of waste in the packaging of things, but again I try to eat more fresh foods and in fact prefer to buy them from local farmers markets or the flea market.  There is no doubt that I could not make more changes to be more eco friendly and I will implement a plan to do just that.  These are things that my 8 year old loves to do too so we can make it a family project! 

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