Breaking the Bank, One Plug at a Time
As the lights stay off and natural light fills the room, I argue with my roommates about flipping the switch and wasting …
healthy teeth + healthy environment
During these two weeks, I finally got to completely change my bad behavior. I am so glad that I could make that …
An Alarm to Wake My Focus Up
If I’ve learned anything about how to maintain my sustainable behavior, it’s that I need to be consistently reminded about it (read …
Flexitarian for life
In my last post I described the challenges of being a vegetarian surrounded by carnivores. By now I’ve decided that I just …
Walls Surrounding Shower Sustainability
In my Step 3 blog post, I found that my biggest challenges with reducing my temperature or time in the shower were …
Remind me what to do again
For the past few weeks I have been unplugging all of my electronics from the outlet to cut down on energy usage. …
Eating With a Purpose
As I was pondering about a minute ago what to do to “increase benefits and reduce barriers” I looked up on my …
Reminders And Rewards….
Reminders. Those have been the biggest part of helping me along with this sustainability challenge. Changing habits that I have had for …
The Clock is Ticking
As the weeks of the sustainable challenge have gone by, I found myself getting used to showering for shorter amounts of time. …
Sweet Incentives
Thinking back on what I wrote about as barriers in Step 2 of this challenge, many of these barriers naturally disappeared. One …