Question: LEAVE THE CAR AT HOME- Experience the thrill of the outdoors by riding your bike, walking or taking the bus in your daily travels. Hitching a ride with your friends or roommates does reduce the amount of driving, but is also just too easy, so avoid that option unless there are no other alternatives. You will start with two days and increase the number of car-free days per week by one, until you have four days of bike riding (or whatever) during the last week.

Your journal should include what you did each day that you worked on the project. You should write what you did, what things worked, what did not, what surprised you, how this affected your roommates, and so on.

provide a summary of your activities and a reflection on them for each of the three weeks. ONLY DO WEEK 1 Conclude your journal with 1-2 paragraphs on the changes in general: which changes were easier or harder; can you see making any of these changes permanent in your life after this assignment or class. your honesty and sincerity in sticking with the project, your creativity in achieving all of the project`s requirements, and the completeness of your journal. I

Include the following:

-How you reduced your electricity consumption (for example) and how you calculated your reduction. Example: I unpluged xxx device for 5 minutes instead of 10 minutes. The device has a power consumption of 1 watts therefore I saved xxx watts everyday. That is a 50% reduction.

-What things worked

-What did not

-What surprised you

-How this affected your roommates

-How you will change next week based on what you learned this week. You will find that there is a story to tell as you go along!