We had to pick to days in whic we counted our normal activities, in my case, I picked last weekend. Saturday & Sunday were the chosen days. We had to measure every activity we performed and have a record of it. So my day 1 and day 2 activities are here, :D
Daily Activities:
1. Transportation
Day 1
|
Day 2
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Home – School 2 km
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Home – Church 2 km
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School – Home 2 km
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Church – Home 2 km
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Home – San Pedro Sula (Mall Multiplaza) 15.5 km
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Home – Park 4 km
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San Pedro Sula (Mall Multiplaza) – Church 16 km
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Park – Home 4 km
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Church – Home 2 km
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Ok, I know. My daily life is not as excited as yours can be, but I tried my best these days, I went to the movies! :D (Ok, honestly, it was a social work activity).
2. Energy Consumption
What I spent on these days.
Day 1
|
Day 2
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5 Cardboards 50 lps
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“Superglue” 15 lps
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Phone Credit 100 lps
|
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Movie tickets for “The
Avengers” 300 lps
|
Ok, yes, I admit it, my life is a little boring. Specially these past month.
3. I do not use hot water appliances. Not even in the shower. Too hot for that, I mean, I live in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Trust me, it is hot in here.
4. Electricity
Day
1
|
Day
2
|
Refrigerator (medium) - 24 hours
|
24
hours
|
Washine Machine – 1 load (1 per
day)
|
1 load
|
Incandescent Lights –
10 hours
|
10
hours
|
Fluorescent Lights –
8 hours
|
6
hours
|
DVD player – 5 hours
|
2
hours
|
TV – 7 hours
|
10
hours
|
Other (Wii) – 3 hours
|
5
hours
|
Clock – 1 hour a day
|
1 hour
|
Iron – 3 hours per
week
|
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|
Small Kitchen
Appliances – 1
hour in total
|
30 min.
|
Computer (In my
house, we use three computers at a time) -
13
hours
|
15
hours
|
Printer – 1 hour
|
20
min.
|
AIR Conditioner (we
use two) – 8
hours each
|
12
hours each
|
Here I realized I'm not that green, must change that.
5. Food
Day
1
|
Day
2
|
Morning: Milk Shake & Cookie
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Morning: Did not have
breakfast
|
Afternoon : Did not have
lunch
|
Afternoon: Rice &
Chicken
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Night: Popcorns,
pepsi & nachos
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Iced tea & a “calzone”
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Canada dry & churro
|
Night: Coke
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6. Water
Day
1
|
Day
2
|
Shower – 15 minutes
|
20 minutes
|
Bath – 10 minutes
|
10 minutes
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Sink – 5 minutes
|
5 minutes
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Toilet flushes – 10 times
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8 times
|
In this particular part, I consider myself a preocupied person. Why? Well, because I grew up in a place were water doesn't come that easily. In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, we are all very concern about water, and try to save as much as possible.
7. Waste
Day 1 - Garbage
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Day 1 - Recycle
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Day 2 - Garbage
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Day 2 - Recycle
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Plastic bags
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Paper
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Plastic
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Cardboard |
Aluminum Paper
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Aluminum Paper
|
||
Cardboard
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Napkins
|
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Cotton
|
Paper
|
||
Leftover food
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Leftover food
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Napkins
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Basically
the purpose of this project is to help us realize how wasteful, how “ungreen
“we are. It is disconcerting, however, because
I thought I was living a green life. I have tried to save as much electricity,
and water as much as I can. For instance, I cannot take longer than 20 minutes
in the shower, and every time I am not using the shower, I close it. Or when
the dishes are being done (Yeap, I do not have a dishwasher), I am traumatized
with the fact the various animals are losing their lives and families, or that
somewhere in the world a person is begging for the water I am wasting. And for
me, this does not sound fair at all. I have realized that I am not as green as
I thought I was. For instance, I sometimes walk from school back home, it is
not quite far (you can check it out in the transportation part up here), I come back home walking, is it safe? I do
not know, but it saves gasoline, besides we all need some extra workout. So now
the second phase is coming. What do I pretend to do? I’ll try to save as much
energy as I can, (promise I’ll use my computer for less time and tell my family
members to quit the usage a bit). I believe the world has had the same story
for a long time already “please recycle, go green, lets love our world, stop
destroying the world we live on, watch out – lets save our planet”. Don’t you
think that is an old story already? Aren’t you tired of the same thing already?
Want
for this to stop? Well, there is only one thing to do to stop this old, same
story for once and for all. It is quite simple actually, anyone could do it.
The answer for this question is simply do what it is told. Save paper, recycle,
watch out for the water. Just follow the green tips, be an understood person,
help out. Don’t you love the place you live on? I mean who wouldn’t.. I don’t
know about you, but I pretend to live here in this earth (there is no other
planet with life, so I guess we are all forced to become green someday), I like
to think I’ll live at least until I’m 150 years old. So, why not doing
ourselves a favor? Join the green group and lets save our earth.
I’ll keep
informing your about my project, this was only phase 1.
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