How environemental are you?

People worldwide are aware of environmental issues that we are facing. Indeed, there is more and more inhabitants on our planet and our society of consumption means a lt of pollution and waste.

A lot of solutions are existing in order to save our planet but it means that we have to change our way of life.

This document is an extract from the New York Times writted in March 31st, in 2007 by Penelope Green which name is « A year in Manhattan without toilet paper » .

This extract is about a family (of environmentalists) who lived an one year experiment in New York City. The experiment’s name is « No Impact ».

This project was about to make as little environmental impact as possible for 1 year.

What can we do by ourselves to live in a better place and protect our environment and future ?

The « No impact » project was the initiative of Colin Beavan, he also enrolled his wife Michele and his 2 years old daughter in it.

On the paper, the project consisted to avoid all the things that uses electricity or fuel power like the television, the fridge, the car, the public transport, etc.

The also have to do less garbage as possible and no shopping anything new. In order to eat, they buyed only local food around NY City.

The most shocking rule was that they have to give up their paper toilet in order to make no trash.

This project was a thought about our lifestyle and what can we do to protect our planet.

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