Charles Monroe

Given that Asheville is a city with many tall buildings, there are multiple places microturbines could be placed. Here is a list: the Wells Fargo building, Asheville Middle, Asheville High, Hotel Indigo, Aloft, Merrill Lynch, and that one building near pack square that has been in construction forever.

Choices I could make to save peatland is to research what companies are choosing peatlands as paper and palm oil plantations and choose to buy from companies that responsibly make their products.

I have learned about Biomass technology, although I mainly focused on microwind which I had not known about prior to this challenge. I was surprised to learn that microwind is used all over the country, especially in countries where individual carbon emissions are higher

As a musician and a teenager who likes stuff, there is a lot of stuff I would rather use $1,500 on. Here is a comprehensive list of stuff I could use that money for.

Depending on how you choose to transport, it affects your engagement with your community. When I carpool, I am actively engaging with my community to get somewhere, and without even thinking about it, helping the environment. When I walk somewhere I am saying hi to people in my community on my way to the destination. For example, when I walked to Walgreens I just so happened to meet David, who was also walking to Walgreens. Overall my experience when walking is usually better than driving, that's mostly because I enjoy the outside and it helps relieve my stress. When carpooling my enjoyment is based on who is in the car, this also goes for walking with groups of friends. My least favorite transit is the bus, I just generally don't enjoy the experience of riding with strangers or other loud students on a bus. 

There are many ways I could implement other "R's" in my life. As an electric bass player figuring out what to do with old bass strings is has always posed a challenge since guitar strings are not recyclable in most cities. However, keeping old sets of strings in my gig bag for back up in case one break's could save me money from having to buy a backup set. Most bass players don't like doing this since they like the tone of fresh strings, but I personally prefer my tone on the darker side so using old strings poses no problem. Considering other "Rs" makes me feel a lot better about my footprint on the environment and also brings out some creativity in the process.