The experiment addresses 5 sections of an individual’s lifestyle: Section 1, Water; Section 2, Food; Section 3, Electricity/Energy; Section 4, Transportation; Section 5, Waste. Sticking with the theme of the project, our tagline for the week is, “How low can you go?” For each of the addressed sections, we have implemented a set of rules and regulations for the participants to follow (all of which can be found on the blog). For example, under Section 2, all participants are recommended to adapt a vegetarian/vegan/local (choice is up to the participant) diet; buy only food from the farmer’s market, Eats, or Annie Kay’s; eat only at Farms & Fields on campus, create close to zero food related waste (no Styrofoam, no disposable silverware, limit napkin usage); and compost all organic matter if possible. The rules and regulations are up to the discretion of the participate depending on feasibility, but we recommend to go as far as possible. The specific ideas for each section may be optional, but the experiment does have a few stricter rules that all participants are asked to follow to legitimize the No Impact Hokie experiment. For the sake of organization, we will call these rules, The No Impact Hokie Laws.
No Impact Hokie Laws:
1) No cars in Blacksburg
2) Must eat food from natural food stores and/or adopt a vegetarian diet
3) No plastic bottles
4) No TV
5) No Styrofoam
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