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Article: The Lifestyle Project
- Article from:
- Journal of Geoscience Education
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright National Association of Geoscience Teachers Nov 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
The Lifestyle Project is a way for students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles. It is a three-week exercise for students to reduce their impact on the environment by changing the way in which they live from day to day. The project has fairly rigid parameters, allowing students to achieve a gradual but definitive change in their everyday habits. Students choose three categories from a list of six: heat, garbage, electricity and water, driving, eating, and activism. They write about their experiences in journals, which are incredibly insightful, illustrating just how profoundly the project affects them. At the end of the project, students have ...