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Author Archives: Stacy
Week 5: Giving Up my Car
I am actually having a pretty hard time with this week. I'm pretty out of shape, and I'm pretty overwhelmed/stressed in general - and I admit to a ton of grumbling this week. I've kind of been an epic failure at it, really. Mostly I've chosen to either stay home or get rides from friends. I've yet to set foot on public transit and I've only walked to work once. And, most disappointingly, I actually drove to work and back this morning.
Guest Post: Week 2, Plastics
We already compost food scraps on site in our own office composter and reduce and reuse whenever possible. We take computers to e-cyclers and other hard-to-recycle items to the appropriate recycling centers. Surely we were fairly eco-conscious folks, we reasoned. Avoiding purchasing plastic should be second nature by day two of the challenge. Our first attempt lasted precisely until lunch time.
Week 4: Dining Out – Epilogue
After not really cooking for, oh, 35 years -- 3 weeks without break of cooking every night was a bit rough. It takes a great deal more mental energy for me to prepare a meal than it does for folks who have been doing it for ages. Admittedly, I was pining for a drive-thru by week's end as I stared at the Spaghetti Squash on my counter and wondered what, in the name of all that is vaguely food-like, to do with it. Seriously. Total bachelor moment. I must have stood there staring at it with a deeply furrowed brow for a good twenty minutes.
