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There are many different things that you can do to lessen your impact on the environment or to have a positive effect on the environment. Be creative and come up with your own way of making a difference. You could write letters to your senators, volunteer with the Sierra Club, spend time cleaning up the woods, set up a carpooling system or recycling system in your home or workplace, find ways to educate others about the importance of conservation, or change your lifestyle in a way not described in the categories above. Invent your own category and discuss it with me before the project starts.

Learning goals include the following:

• Which everyday tasks require large inputs of energy?
• Which everyday tasks do not require a lot of energy?
• Simple ways to reduce energy use.
• The details of what can and cannot be recycled in their community.
• Simple ways to reduce garbage output.
• Simple ways to reduce water consumption.
• The connection between food production and energy use

Lifestyle Project Journals
You will keep track of your activities in the Lifestyle Project by recording everything in a journal