This past semester, my class has been studying the theme of sustainablity. We have familiarized ourself with the pros and cons of the dorm lifestyle. Sterry hall is a prime example of a residence hall that struggles to promote sustainable living conditions for its residents. In the following blog you will see several conscious efforts to make a small difference on this campus, or even better, in this world and how residents living here often turn their cheek the other way.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Moving on to some of the worst examples of non-sustainable practices at Sterry hall
Ok, so the first thing that comes to my mind when we think about the worst examples of non-sustainable practices is the laundry room. Here's why: on several occasions when we have gone down to the laundry room, every single washer and dryer is being used at the same time. I hate to think about how much energy is being used. Not only that, but on a number of times we have seen girls just wash a few articles of clothing at a single time. Many of them do several loads of wash with only a few things and dry them in seperate dryers so they will dry faster. You can see how this is a problem already. There are about 12 washers and 12 dryers in the laundry room so for all of these to be running at the same time must mean a major consumption of energy. This means bad news for the sustainability theme being preached on campus this year. Oh, and the lint catchers inside the dryers are always full of lint when i dry my clothes which leads me to believe that people aren't cleaning them out, thus adding to more energy usage.
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