Sustainability: Are you up for the ‘No Impact’ challenge?

I noticed the other day that I left the water running when I was brushing my teeth.  Do you do that, too?

This coming week I’m going to be joining the Sustainable Heights No Impact Week experiment, trying to lower my carbon footprint (and tooth brushing water use!), and trying to pay scrupulous attention to my daily consumption of the basics of life like energy use, food, and how I get around town.  I don’t have any illusions about how difficult it will be to pay attention to my daily habits of living, because being mindful has always been a challenge. But, I’m game and I hope you are, too.

As chair of Sustainable Heights No Impact Week I invite you to take the challenge with me, and your neighbors, from October 16 -23. This is the 2nd annual sustainability week produced by the grassroots Sustainable Heights Network. The No Impact Week project is the brainchild of Colin “No Impact Man” Beavan,  whose book and film by the same name has inspired thousands of citizens around the world to do a week long carbon cleanse through the No Impact Project. Why should we? The idea is that our small gestures of greener living not only have a profound impact on our quality of life and personal happiness, but collectively these gestures produce an important impact on making the world a healthier place to be.

We’ll have some featured bloggers joining us here to tell us how they are doing with their experiment, so check back often to this site. I invite you to follow their progress, and, more importantly, join the experiment!  Don’t think you can do it all? Colin tells the Sustainable Heights community that you can do this at your own pace.  Get your family involved, or your community group, create a team of neighbors. However you choose to participate, remember the more you put into the challenge the more you’ll get out of it.

Registering takes 5 seconds and you’ll receive, by email, the fun and engaging How-To Guide, and daily encouragement and local event information during the week.

Register here: http://noimpactproject.org/experiment/sustainableheights/

Follow on Facebook and get psyched for your experiment by attending No Impact Man: The Documentary on Thursday, October 13 at 7 pm. at the University Heights Library.

We are the first community in Ohio to host the No Impact Experiment. It promises to be a unique and enlightening challenge for all participants.  Please join us. You’ll be glad you did.

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