I'm currently about a week in on reducing my ecological footprint. The hardest challenge so far is limiting the amount of food that I consume from restaurants. Three of my roommates work at restaurants around Bellingham, and they tend to bring home food for other roommates on the regular. However, I can't decide if this is a negative or positive impact on the environment. The food brought home is usually leftover soup and bread that would have been thrown out anyway, but it also regularly contains meat and is prepared in an environment that has a much larger ecological footprint than my house ever would. I've come across a pretty big dilemma. In the end, eating free and delicious food helps me save money that I would be spending on groceries anyway. It will be hard to pass up.