One aspect of my Life Style Project that's been successful is that I've gotten the word out! People know! For my birthday, when people thought of meals or gifts for me, they thought of the environment.
Take, for example, this Seven Year Pen from Switzerland. In our environmental science class on Thursday, Darren, John, and I were talking about how many pens are thrown away every day, and I told them about when I was a child. We had ink wells, and we'd fill our fountain pens with ink. No one thought of throwing away pens. Then along came the ballpoint.
Of course, I prefer the ballpoint, but it seems so wasteful, so here's the gift from Nicole. (See picture above.)
It says, "Worldwide, 100 million pens are discarded every day. Yikes!" Then it promises that my new pen will be able to write 1.7 meters a day for 7 years! It also promises that a portion of the purchase is donated to environmental causes!
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