We’d like you to reflect upon your personal consumption of resources and production of waste. Consider some of your everyday activities that raise your ecological footprint and choose one that you are willing to modify or eliminate for three days. You might forego something like driving, eating meat, shopping, or taking long hot showers but any way that you want to reduce your ecological footprint will work! During the course of the three days, notice your thoughts, emotions and physical sensations around this change. Please write a short reflection that includes answers to some of the following questions. What did you give up for three days? What do you notice about how you feel about yourself, others and your environment? What do you learn about yourself and the world from the experience? Did you feel any social pressure as a consequence of your choice? Given the ecological footprint quiz that you took last week – please reflect on the impact this change will make for your personal ecological footprint Recognizing that changing your own consumption habits has only a tiny impact on the global situation, how might what you have learned have a larger social and political impact? What sorts of social and political changes could help to decrease consumption?
