Hear ye! Hear ye!

"When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world."
- John Muir

Describe how you would convince others at your site to implement "low or no impact/ sustainable changes.

This is a question that we have pondered over for some time now. How can you ask someone to change the way they live when that person feels like they are not making a difference. We guess it all comes down to what our good old friend Mr. Colin Beavan was talking about when he said that we don't have to change the world but if we change ourselves it will surely help out. We don't think that there is an exact way to tell someone who lives in the dorms how to make a drastic change in their routine because there are certain conditions that they are just forced to live under. You can't tell someone not to shower or not to wash clothes but you can ask them to be conservative of the amount of water and energy they use while doing these tasks. You can't ask someone to live in darkness but you can ask them to turn off their lights when they leave their room and their tvs too.You can certainly ask them to make small changes that will add up in the long run. Sometimes it's about the little things that make a big difference and judging by how many residence halls we have here at Texas State and the amount of people living in each of them, any type of change will help. We hate to think of the effects our planet will have in a few years from now just so people can take longer showers, drink from their Dasani water bottles, abuse the washers/dryers, and leave the lights on at all hours.