No Impact Man

What Struck Me:
The wife's designer apparel addiction parallel's mine, or is the future of mine, and she WANTED to give it up. In fact it seems to me that she was the epitome of the over using out of sight and out of mind life style, so he was really making a difference by changing HER lifestyle. Her caffeine addiction terrifies me. I am ASTOUNDED by how much they were actually able to change. Some people may think that they did too much, but they really proved it was possible, and that gives me a lot of hope.

A huge thing that affected me was the parenting aspect of this video. How many people who want children or have children actually raise their own kids? Instead of handing them off to a nanny or subscribing them early to TV. A lot of people have kids because that is what they are 'supposed' to do at a certain age or once they get married, but how many are actually willing to give up their relax time in the afternoons to running around with their kids? Or their date nights and vacations to spending quality time raising their children? I want to be a surgeon and that means a lot of time in school, late nights and weird sleep times, will I be able to have children if I am going to raise them the way I want to? I am not sure I will.

Beyond even that, how much time and energy should go into living? How much of our days are spent in a half-conscience state? How much do we really have to think about? We microwave food or at best read recipes. What would our world be like if we had to make our own food, and follow our garbage to the dump? Is being 'lazy' a new characteristic to recent generations made possible by money interested corporations? Are profitable things only things that make stuff easier? THIS IS A TERRIFYING WEB OF SELF AND CULTURAL DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIORS!

What our SCHOOL can do:
Recycling: We have LOTS of aluminum and plastic but barely any paper and we are a SCHOOL. We are also awful at keeping this stuff straight. Our school majorly lacks in the organization of many things but if we could just get recycling straight it would have a big impact I think.
Carpooling: We are a commuter school, carpooling should be better as well. That is HUGE.
We should figure out what exactly being a new wave educational institution means and cut out the things we don't need. We should be ALL online or use smartboards, we need to go all the way on this if we are going to be a 'high tech' school and help the environment where we can.