Recently I’ve noticed the efforts
of sustainability in the metro area and I feel bad because the most I do to
help sustain our earth is to use the same bag when I go to the grocery
store. I have recently read the article
“The Company We Keep” which is in the Conspire “Green Revolution” magazine
edition. The author of the article,
Lenore Yarger, expressed how she never thought much about sustainability until
she met someone that used composting toilets.
She never thought much about them until she became adapted to being
around them more and learned how helpful they are to the environment.
This
story of Lenore and the composting toilets reminds me of an experience that I
have had while living in the city. I am
from a rural town in Southeast Iowa where we have to drive everywhere to get to
one point or another. When I came out
here I did not bring my car and I was having a hard time dealing with
this. I soon noticed that a ton of people
in the Capitol Hill area walk to work or take the bus. When I first started riding the bus I was
very nervous, I did not know public transportation very well and was a little
uncomfortable just not driving myself.
Soon I saw two young women who were about my age get on the bus. I soon realized that just because I never
really thought about taking the bus or walking, I just never was given the
opportunity and it should not be scary.
So
similar to Lenore Yarger’s article “The Company We Keep” and the composting
toilets (which she now owns) that just because an idea is new, should not be
shut down completely, new experiences give us different outlooks and the
company that we keep very much influence those outlooks.
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