I am very excited to say that yesterday started my "green month." I started my vegan diet/lifestyle and eco-friendly behaviors. When I was driving from Conway to NLR to work, I was doing between 60 and 65 mph. People were passing me on the left, but I was saving fuel and money! My first mess up of the day, though, was pretty early on when I forgot to take a "Navy shower." If you don't know what this is, let me tell you. It is a good way to get in the habit of conserving water in the shower. Basically, you turn on the water and get wet. Then you turn off the water and lather up with soap and shampoo. Then you turn on the water and rinse off the soap. This really cuts down on the amount of time the water is on. (Plus if you are competing for hot water in the morning, there is more hot water available!) Another slip-up was from fixing lunch. Ok no meat and no dairy. Well I was fixing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with vegetable chips. I sat down to eat my lunch and Brooks (my roommate) asked if I found jelly without gelatin. No, I hadn't. I forgot that gelatin comes from the collagen from inside animal bones. But when I looked at the label on the jar, no gelatin was listed. Fruit pectin was the gelling agent instead of gelatin. Good to know!

At work, I collected all of my waste and scrap paper and took it home to put in my recycling bin. I tend to have to print more that I like to, so I collect my wasted paper and either recycle it or reuse it as scrap paper for notes and grocery lists.

As for last month, I drove approximately 1600 miles in June and filled up my car with about 5 1/2 tanks of gas. This sucks! A portion of this amount will be hard to eliminate (commuting to work), but I hopefully will start planning my driving route better to eliminate backtracking and inefficient routes. According to Carbonfootprint.com, I put 0.61 tonnes of carbon in the atmosphere. I hope to lower that number.