UNI Lifestyle Challenge

Dr. Chad Heinzel

The UNI Lifestyle Challenge (after Kirk and Thomas, 2003) is a way for you to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying your own lifestyle. It is a three-week exercise for you to reduce your impact on the environment by changing the way in which you live from day to day. The project has fairly rigid parameters, allowing you to achieve a gradual but definitive change in your everyday habits. Each of you will choose three different ways in which you are interested in changing your habits. The possible categories are: use of electricity and water, heat, automobile usage, food consumption, waste production and environmental education or activism. GOAL: Present your findings at UNI's Earth Day celebration,

The UNI Lifestyle Challenge

Overview and directions

Journals

This document is are general recommendations to keep a Geologic-sytle Journal. You do not have to buy a fancy journal, for this project I would use your class google drive folder and docs... This is just for reference Field Journal Recommendations

Further reading and information

The Omnivore's Dilemma - by Michael Pollen

The Last Child in the Woods - by Richard Louv

Interview - by Xavier Le Pichon

Links to explore

Water

Hidden Water We Use

Water Footprint

Carbon

Carbon footprint 1 (The Nature Conservancy)

Carbon footprint 2

Food miles