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Revisiting the Lifestyle Project

Explore heat, garbage, electricity, water consumption, eco-friendly habits, and inter-disciplinary sustainability. Learn from 'Hippies!' stats and revamped project changes for a greener future.

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Revisiting the Lifestyle Project

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  1. Revisiting the Lifestyle Project Mark P. Turski Lisa A. Doner Environmental Science and Policy Department, Plymouth State University

  2. 2009

  3. The Categories • 1. HEAT • 2. GARBAGE • 3. ELECTRICITY AND WATER • 4. LEAVE THE CAR AT HOME • 5. EAT EFFICIENTLY • 6. CREATE YOUR OWN CATEGORY

  4. The Arm Chair Environmentalist Coverage of topics in science and general education courses 3 or 4 carbon footprints A new Inter-disciplinary Sustainability minor Addition of courses on Sustainability Change in the ES&P student

  5. Hippies! • Most belong to Common Ground and hold most of the leadership positions • 33% last year were vegetarians or vegans. • Most watch their meat consumption try to eat local or organic if they can. • Most are proud they don’t drive during the week except for work. • They all recycle and work to re-use and reduce • 63 degrees is a New Englander’s idea of a warm house

  6. Changes to Project • Moved Baseline data part to the intro course • 1st year students can do it in dorms • It is integrated with Dimensional Analysis • Science and Policy majors – math and science requirements are very different • Carbon Footprint moved to intro course • With math and more in depth analysis • Followed up in Energy in Society course • Countries of the world • TED talks

  7. EAT EFFICIENTLY - me I added miles traveled and virtual water. They are convinced I LIE!

  8. Food - me

  9. Food - students

  10. Garbage trash 4.5 lbs junk mail, .5lb cardboard, .8kg/2.1 lb unrecyclable trash - most of which was the ham bone from Wed. nite.

  11. ELECTRICITY AND WATER

  12. Heat 3 degrees every week • Rarely start above 65° F in New England • 52% nuclear power – .185$/KWH • Only Maine uses more bio-mass • 50% Fuel oil • Dorm students have no control – rooms usually too hot • Roommates – tied to electric use • Family - 63°

  13. Leave the car 1.2 miles

  14. Family Circus 1.3

  15. Lazy .33 = ~ 5

  16. CREATE YOUR OWN CATEGORY • They do so many of the things on the list already. • No papers • Academic dishonesty issues.

  17. References Kirk, K.B., and Thomas, J.J. (2003). The Lifestyle Project, Journal of Geoscience Education, 51 (5), 496-499. National Association of Geoscience Teachers. (2009) On the Cutting Edge: Teaching About Energy in Geoscience Courses. Retrieved from: http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/publicpolicy/activities/12517.html

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