Day One Of Mark Abell's No Impact Project

Trash generated:
5 Clif Bar wrappers, 1 Styrofoam plate from a fund-raiser on campus, Styrofoam bottom from Trader Joes' turkey, saran wrap from Trader Joes' Turkey.

Items To Phase Out: Clif Bars, Trader Joes' packaged meats.

The moderate:
bought No Impact Man: The Adventures Of A Guilty Liberal Who Attempts To Save The Planet And The Discoveries He Makes About Himself And Our Way Of Life In The Process @ Powell's. The good: supports the local economy, supports the mission of the author who signed the book. The bad: could have taken the book out from the library and saved $25, bought the book new when used would be preferable, book is only $9.95 used on Amazon [1].

The good:

• took the streetcar to Whole Foods, later back to PSU, and later to Powell's. Walked to NW 21st to go to a cafe to study for a midterm then walked the full way back to SW 10th, where my apartment is.

• bought Kombucha from Townshend's Tea Company[2], a company out of Eugene, which for all practical purposes we will say is local. other pros: allergy symptoms improved after drinking the beverage, kept the bottle to drink water out of (reuse) cons: spent $4 on one bottle.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0374222886/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265966379&sr=1-1&condition=used

[2]http://www.townshendstea.com/our-story

Resources:
http://noimpactproject.org/

http://noimpactman.typepad.com/