Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Home, green home: Project Proposal
Living in a college dorm is an interesting experience to say the least. There is not another time in your life when you will live in an environment constantly surrounded by individuals your own age that are not only your peers but also your friends. Although a college student may already have enough to worry about – grades, friends, homesickness and relationship troubles – a college student may not even be considering how to live a sustainable lifestyle. This is where I can help: I propose to create a booklet (although I've been thinking about this more and more and possibly a video?) about how to live a sustainable lifestyle as a college student. Nontheless, I will include different topics in my booklet or video, including water conservation, energy conservation, food sustainability, building relationships with nature and how to manage waste properly. I will provide information about how to be sustainable being during college and how to make little changes in one’s lifestyle that one can carry on for the duration of one’s life. In this sense, hopefully my booklet will teach individuals how to live sustainably no matter what stage of life one is in. If possible I would love for part of my project to be giving a PowerPoint or some other sort of presentation to my floor mates about the information I learn, however this will only happen if my RAs allow me to do so. I believe that instilling sustainable beliefs during a college, a time in which an individual is already learning an immense amount about oneself, will aid in creating a sustainable lifestyle for that person overall.
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This sounds like such a fantastic idea! I think that a lot of people do not realize how easy it is to make small changes in one's life which can ultimately improve sustainable living on campus. I think you should clarify however the differences between living on campus and living off campus. There are distinct differences in what you can control in each setting that makes ALL the difference. Perhaps think about what ways are timely and efficient for students on campus who perhaps do not have the ability to travel to a farmers market every weekend, or even afford buying organic, sustainable products from whole foods.
ReplyDeleteAll in all though, I love the creativity in your idea. Fabulous!