Participating in this blog has been a great push to be sustainable. Prior to this blog, I had only thought about how good a job my school is doing, but never about what my family could do. Having a graded assignment motivated me to make sure that I kept improving my ways of living. I also gained a ton of knowledge when I had to look through websites and find information that I needed. I never knew that there were so many helpful tips on this subject.
I made the mistake of not setting any solid goals in the beginning of this project. If I had challenged myself with goals each week, that I knew I could tell when they were accomplished, then reaching them would have been much more fulfilling. Instead, I reflected on each week's progress. I tried to relate being sustainable with what I did every week. My family greatly improved the areas that I focused on, electricity and water. The way I helped was, I looked up information and then relayed those ideas to my family. They kind of needed someone to tell them what to do since they don't have any other way of finding out. I think that my family has changed a lot because they really didn't know anything about sustainability before I introduced it to them.
A challenge I can think of was getting my family to cooperate. It was easy for me to follow my rules but it was hard to control everyone else. Also, continuing these rituals will be a challenge. I encountered barely any challenges because I planned ahead and I could pretty much see if my ideas were going to work or not. Some advantages of this project are that we get to save money and the environment, and grow good organic fruit.
I think that our school's next step would be to focus on energy conservation in the academy and all other buildings, not just Case Middle School. I think that the balance is tilting because we've been trying to use less paper, but more electricity is used. If we found better ways to conserve energy, or use alternative sources, then we could re-balance the scale.
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