Living a green life takes awareness, commitment, and a change of habits - some subtle and some lifestyle-altering. Here members of the Fairfield University community share ways they live a green life - in the home, in the classroom, and anywhere else eco-friendly choices are made. Enjoy their profiles and, if you're a member of the Fairfield community, submit your own any time - we'd love to pick up a few tips from you too!

Are you a "reluctant environmentalist" - someone whose heart is in the right place but whose habits can use some "eco-reco" (reconsideration from an eco-friendly point of view)? Then follow the trials and tribulations of Fairfield's original "Reluctant Environmentalist", a blog by Professor Mariann Regan, Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, and join the conversation at our Red to Green blog.

		What I do / don't do to discourage waste: Don't buy things I don't need. Buy local, organic and fair trade when I have to buy. (Fairfield has a farmers market!) Plant a garden (next spring!). Walk / bike to work, or beg rides from people going the same way. (I live by the beach. Why is there no bus up from Reef Road?) Use low energy natural gas furnace. Keep my thermostat low in the day (when I'm not home) and at night (when I'm asleep). Use all energy saving bulbs in my house. Use energy saving, low water washer. Don't use clothes dryer (use air to dry). Installed a low water use toilet. Installed a low flow shower. Turn off power to appliances when not in use (to avoid electricity loss in DVD players, etc.). Berate my students for being lazy and driving to class.