Some people in the comments have been asking questions such as, "Do you ever cheat by going to another room and use the electricity there?" or, "Do you end up using even more electricity than before in other rooms?" My answer to these questions is: Sometimes, yes. Sometimes when I've had enough of the darkness in my room I go to a different room with light. Although, it's never for a prolonged amount of time. Over the course of this project, I have used lights in other rooms for a total of around 2 hours, which is nothing compared to how often I had my lights on before this project. All in all, for the most part, I've tried pretty hard to reduce my overall use of electricity throughout the house, not just in my room.
If the project ended today, I would probably try and continue my habits, but I feel like I'd eventually give up and put back lights in my room. The only reason I've been able to survive is because I have to until the end of this project. I've been pretty successful though, as I haven't had lights on in my room for 3 weeks now.
Developing a habit takes a lot of time and effort. According to this article by James Clear, it takes at least 66 days to start developing a habit, and most of the time, it won't be easy to get through even the 1st day. Although my habit isn't really a habit, it has still been hard to get used to not being able to turn on my lights. I usually turn on my lights every time I step into my room, and I still try to do that, even though I know I can't. After a while though, I've finally stopped flipping the switch instinctively.
Developing a habit takes a lot of time and effort. According to this article by James Clear, it takes at least 66 days to start developing a habit, and most of the time, it won't be easy to get through even the 1st day. Although my habit isn't really a habit, it has still been hard to get used to not being able to turn on my lights. I usually turn on my lights every time I step into my room, and I still try to do that, even though I know I can't. After a while though, I've finally stopped flipping the switch instinctively.
If you were wondering, according to the article, “How America Uses its Land,” out of the 1.9 billion acres of land in North America, 6,840,000, or 3.6% of the total land is taken up by urban cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York. Although these urban cities are made up of this little land, they contributed more than 40% of the U.S's total GDP. Also, cropland takes up around 20%, or 391.5 million acres of land in the U.S. However, only a third of this area is used to actually make food for people to eat. Croplands are not the largest land-use type in the country, however. 654 million acres of land are used for pasture, which are dominantly inhabited by cows. This land also includes other livestock animals, such as sheep and horses
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