Green in College

So I know I said i would have pictures of my dorm up for the next post, but that just isn't happening right now. College has kept me plenty busy this past, as has launching my Youtube channel,

GJC TV.

Life on campus has been pretty nice. I've met a bunch of cool people, had some great food, used the rec center quite a lot, and enjoyed a variety of campus activities. One thing that bugged me about it though was the apparent lack of green initiative. Recycling bins are far and few between. The only "green" thing about UA is it large amount of green space that was planted recently. UA's greeness ends there.

So while I try to find the person or people I need to get something rolling here, I started little eco-friendly practices in my dorm room.

1) I put one the boxes i used to move in under my bed to be a paper recycling box. Whenever I go home I take the paper with me.

2)Next to the paper box is another box for plastic bottles. Next time I go home I'm gonna bring back another one for cans

3)All of my electronic...stuff is plugged into a power-strip so at night or when I'm at classes I can turn the power-strip off and use less... vampire energy I believe its called. (everything except for the fridge...that needs to stay on)

4)This is the one that is hardest for me, taking short showers. At home my incentive (so-to-speak) was to keep our water bill down. At Akron, there is no water bill...for me at least. So it is taking all of my will power to keep showers relatively short.