Entry 3

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After taking the sustainability test on consumer consequences I came to realize that I consume a lot more than I thought I did in certain areas and not so much in other areas. My home impact score was 2, the impact of the electricity use in my home is 6, the impact of the waste generated in my home is 13, the impact of personal or public transportation is 90, the impact of food consumed is 9 and the impact of use of services and goods is 6. It would take 28.1 Planet Earth's. I was aware that I am constantly on the road but I did not ever think that I impacted so much of the use. How much food consumed is probably in large part due to the amount of food prepared for me outside of the home and how much time I spend in my car. Just to think of the amount of trash genreated in my home with only 4 adults is a bit worrysome to me. I believe that my family as a whole has gotten a lot better with our lifesyles and how we preserve the planet but I also think that a lot of has to do with how the economy is now and how most of us are just trying to save as much money as possible for our personal benefits.  I feel that for me personally however, there are many changes that should be made in my lifestyle since I am constantly spending so much time outside of my home. I feel like there are many changes that can me made in my life, the first one being the amount of time I spend in the car and not with other passengers, car pooling seems like a much better way to get around seeing that it is more effiicient, however it is a lot easier to try and get things that one personally has to get done on a daily basis without relying or having someone else rely on you. I also feel that I should try and recycle more in my house as well as encourage my family to do so because sometimes we just simply get lazy; instead of taking out certain products to the recycle bins, we will place them in the garbage bag.

Personally in my home I do not use much the energy source since I am hardly around. However, I work at an answering service, I have my own desk with my own lanp and computer in which I use during the entire day as well as other resources such as the kitchen refridgerator, toilet, microwave, etc. I use an excessively high amount of fuel during the day, which has much to do with the anount of time I spend out of house in my car to go to work, school, or running errands. During the time that I am in school each semester I really do not eat as much as I would during the holiday's and breaks siunce I am usually so focused on the things I have to do for my classes that I don't think I even have the time to sit down and eat a meal and I don't even try to make the time. So during the day I am usually munching on things and when I get home is when I have a decent meal. I use a lot of water during the day, I usually take about two 25 minute showers a day which almost adds up to an hour. Also, I sometimes forget to turn off the faucet when I am brushing my teeth, doing my hair or washing the dishes and I tend to use the bathroom more frequently than usual since I drink a lot water while I am work which means I am flushing the toilet a lot. Within the answering service that I work in, there is also a warhouse division for direct mail in which they have the telephone representatives assist in getting some of the jobs completed. Not only looking at the essentials products that I use in my every day life that is packaged, a lot of the direct mail I completeld in one day made up most of the items packaged that I used.