This past Friday's class we had our presentations we were suppose to have the previous week. I was looking forward to them because they were the first of the article based ones. Nate and Farmer both had such informative presentations and I was really engaged during them. Nate's presentation on sustainability was amazing and his knowledge on the subject was very thorough. He really tied everything back to Salt Lake City and made me really think of things I never thought of before. It also made me think of this week's Tuesday experience where we had to take public transit to our destination. My group-mates and I brought snacks this week and when we got off the train Hugo started walking and counting. I asked him why he was counting and he reminded us that in class Mary said people tend to walk 27 steps before they throw their garbage on the ground. Hugo ended up walking 42 before he found a garbage bin. That posed a little bit of a problem as there was garbage all over the ground leading up to the garbage bin.
While Nate was talking about sustainability and the different ways it can affect Salt Lake City I shared my story of how my team wastes water in huge amounts. During our two hour practice we are in the water for almost an hour and a half and we just let a hot water hose run. I can even imagine how much water that is wasting. It's little things like the garbage being thrown on the ground or wasting water I never truly thought about in my daily life. It's something that I just take for granted, and well most of us do.
I decided to start standing up for the little things. When we at our Tuesday experience to Splore they told us that they partner with bigger corporations and do clean ups by lakes and rivers. I started tying everything together and realized I should start doing some little things to add to sustainability in Salt Lake City. I told my teammates that we will fill up the "trash bin" and not let the water run, they were not having it at all. I was actually quite shocked because my one teammate is extremely close with nature and the environment. They were extremely against it but they finally gave it and decided to not do it for morning practice, well it's a start. I also walked around campus and picked up some trash following the football game on Saturday, boy was there A LOT.
If every single person threw their trash in the garbage or if someone saw a piece of garbage on the ground and picked it up Salt Lake City would start to be a cleaner place to live. I think we could do it we just need to start holding each other accountable.
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