FGCI

I believe that having FGCI here at the university is going to change a lot of things campus wide. Listening to Dr. Reed speak was quite motivational. He gave us the cold hard facts and showed us what was being done on campus. When he told us that some lights stay on all day and night it floored me. I immediately thought that that is our money being wasted. We the students have to pay for a lot of the energy used here with our tuition money. That makes me mad. Why should we have to pay for someone not turning off a light? Shouldn't something be done about that? The best solution would be to put in motion lights. Then the lights will turn off if there is no one around. It turns the light off and saves a lot more energy than anyone would think. I think the Green Initiative is an excellent idea for the campus and also for our environment. It will get students involved and teach them about the environment and what we can do to make a difference. If we don't start saving energy now, our world will detrioate.
Dr. Reed's speech made me want to get involved in the FGCI. In my cottage I am making my roommates recycle and I have asked them to turn off lights and the TV when they are not in use. Even though we do not have to pay for the electricity, it is still wasting energy and that is not good. I also started saving my water bottles and just filling them up with tap water instead of constantly buying more cases of water. I am trying to do my part in helping the environment, and I hope this speech led others to do the same.
This speech correlates quite a bit with the themes we are studying, especially obsolescence. If we keep throwing items away and not recycling then eventually they will be no more, because wasting energy and electricity makes it harder for manufacturers to create the items. Everything coincides. We could stop wasting so much oil as well. If new, more efficient cars are created then the need for oil will lessen, and we will have more oil to use elsewhere. We can do our part little by little to help the environment and save our world!