I am very good at using it, abusing it, and then beating myself up for acting like the kind of narcissistic people that I despise.
To counteract said narcissism, I have decided to crusade against junkmail (including my anthropoligie and Nordstrom catalogues). No more credit card offers, student loan consolidation forms, or surveys offering free plane tickets if only I'd fill them out. Wish me luck.
- How many pounds of junk mail do I receive a month? How much energy is consumed to produce said junk mail and get it across the country to this little island in Alaska? BTW, my mailman is the Sitka's mayor.
- Google has a ton (hee hee) of resources for me to research and contact. There is a website called 41 pounds that is championing this cause. According to them, the average American received 41 pounds (hence the title) of junk mail a year. They have many statistics in reference to water used and trees cut down. Good stuff.
- For data collection, I will collect all of the junk mail that I receive in the mail starting today and ending with the culmination of this project.
- After every mail collection, I will record the date and weight of mail recieved. I will then (using pre-existing data) do math and figure out how much energy was used to send all of this junk mail to little ol' me. If I am really ambitious, I will seperate the junk mail into categories, ie. credit cards, catalogues, surveys, fliers, ect.
At the end of this project, I intend to remove myself from as many mailing lists as possible and firmly insist that others do the same.
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I am breathlessly awaiting your powerpoint Hillary! This is really cool...
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