Last week was an important week for sustainability and helping the environment. There was Earth-day and the sustainability fair at our school. Earth-day wasn't very popular or advertised, but the sustainability fair was a huge success. At the fair there were booths that promoted all kinds of suggestions and ideas to make the word more sustainable. It ranged from buying organic food to cut down the costs of importing to reusing your shower water. It also helped support some businesses like one I saw that takes down houses piece by piece and then sells, but ultimately reuses everything in other houses.
In the past week, I have tried talking to my parents about alternative sources for the electricity in our house. I am trying to advertise solar energy because of the effect it will have on our energy intake and electric bill. Over the weekend we also bought compact fluorescent light bulbs and are beginning to install them.
For water conservation, it is hard because I cannot control how long they are in the shower for but I found this video that shows what happens if you are in the shower too long. {http://youtube.com/watch?v=eKYdmZ-FTV8&feature=related} We have also been air-drying all of our clothes instead of using the drying machine. I already thought of this for something my family should do, but an idea for our school to help our energy costs would be to spend a day without using any. This would probably be hard and miserable because of no air conditioning but it would raise awareness throughout the whole school.
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troy, i enjoyed reading your blog and i liked how you added a video from youtube. It really brought out your blog a lot.
I like how you talked about current events that relate to this blog project. I like your idea at the end. It is a good idea because everyone would see how much we take air conditioning for granted.
The only problem i have is that it says unpleasant things about stuff. turning off the power would be a bad idea, i think.
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