My Footprint

Goal 1. Eat less meet. Cut back to 5 times a week.

Besides services my biggest area for improvement is food. Currently I eat meat every night for dinner and occasionally lunch and breakfast too. I want to cut this back to just eating meat for dinner and in time just 5 dinners a week. This will be my hardest goal because as it is my diet is very meat centered.

Goal 2. Use less electricity by turning off items that are not in use like TV and lights.

I have a really bad habit of leaving the TV on when I am no longer watching it. I will just walk away and leave it on for no reason. I need to be conscious of this and remember to turn it off when I am no longer using it. I also have a problem leaving lights on in rooms I'm no longer in. I will also need to get in the habit of turning off the lights when I leave a room.

Goal 3. Use less gas by taking cooler shorter showers. Limit myself to 15-20min.

I certainly like taking long hot showers that can last up to 30 minutes at a time. And when I say hot I mean hot. Even in the summer time I take hot showers. I need to turn down the temperature and limit myself to about 20 minutes at most. This goal will be pretty hard to get use to I am going to struggle a lot.

Over all I was pretty surprised by my results. I thought I was much more earth friendly than I actually am. I also did not think that my meat consumption was making as big of an impact as it is. Cutting back on meat will be pretty hard. I was also surprised by how big my goods area was. I never next to next buy new clothes, I have a Nook for reading or I use the public Library and I don't receive any magazines or newspapers to my house. I think my biggest contributors to this area are buying person/ beauty products and cleaning supplies.