The phrase of the day is: Small Footprint by Margaret Leora Workman; Warponie Art

Small Footprint by Margaret Leora Workman; Warponie Art
I was thinking about this phrase this morning for some reason. I remember reading about it one time and not totally getting it but maybe it is really a simple idea. I was thinking about this regarding sustainable living. There are more definitions of this phrase depending on the context that you are referring to. So, in this context or subject area I was thinking about sustainable living, I guess being self-contained so to speak. I did find another definition online according to pcmag.com the definition of small footprint is this:
“The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite’s footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. An application’s footprint is the amount of memory (RAM) it requires”. (1981-2024)
(I read the article at the end, and it states that this definition is for personal use only. All other reproduction requires permission.) But I gave credit to these people just now. In an in-text citation. I will put the resource at the bottom. But it does not say who wrote the article, I guess it was just some random person. Many online articles do this, they don’t list the author who wrote the article. I found this out when I was trying to find articles for a couple of my classes in college. I hope this will be ok with them. I really liked the definition.
For keeping a small footprint regarding sustainable living, I found an artificially intelligent (AI) generated definition:
“Sustainable living means reducing your carbon footprint and using the Earth’s resources responsibly. Here are some ways to live sustainably with a small footprint: Tiny homes, Sustainable home design, conserving water, conserving energy, reducing waste, shop small.” (2024)
I guess recycling should be on that list, darn those robots, I guess they can’t think of everything, and it did say that AI is on an experiment at the end of the generated article. I didn’t explain each one of these like the article did but then it would be as if I lifted the whole article and put it onto mine even though I would be adding quotation marks, but I think a person cannot do that just to get their word count up. I think it can only be 80% plagiarized. Too bad. I guess those robots aren’t people though. No wonder the AI forgot about recycling. I guess that’s only for Earth Day, and they don’t want any of their metal parts to be taken to the trash. How will they walk home or order from a drive through? That’s why the official Transformers decided to turn into cars and planes. Because their bodies were being taken to the recycling bin. They proved to those people that they actually didn’t need all of their appendages anyway. This is a joke please do not take me seriously especially if you follow the Transformers on social media. Sustainable living has been around since the beginning of time but then somehow it became really popular, and hoarding was finally out of style. Too many people were missing their favorite donkey statue that they bought at that garage sale underneath the rubble of all of their stuff. Then people started saying that those people were being too materialistic. Minimalism then became popular but then no one wanted to only have seven items of clothing including shoes to wear. I really did this challenge several years ago when that book came out. I wanted to see if I could do that. It can be easy if you loath wearing dresses. Purses count in that experiment. I guess you could count that as the eighth randomized object in your closet but don’t tell the author.
The idea of having a small footprint is for people who bike to work because I guess it is better for the environment. I always think of them as not using telephones or smart phones as well and using trash compactors at home. I am from Colorado and people rode their bikes to work in their work clothes and wore helmets on the bus. The bus had to pick them up though. That is using gas to get you and your bike and that very large helmet. Since the bike and that large helmet weigh a lot then the bus has to strain to drive anywhere, and more gas will be used. So, I argue that you cannot use the bus. That extra gas could just be in your gas tank. Also, you have to bike to the restaurant to go out and meet up with a date at the coffee shop, with the helmet on during the weekends as well. What if you get married but you forget to tell them that they have to share your footprint. You thought it was just an understood ‘I’ That they would know that they, too, have to bike to work. Also, that you have a tiny home, and they can’t even fit their closet into the tiny home. What if they live in a town that does not recycle? Will you hold them in complete disdain because the town doesn’t recycle? The town I live in does not recycle. Being from Colorado, I was shocked but not shocked because I am from a small town in Kansas, and they don’t know the phrase ‘separate your trash’. They don’t offer recycling drop offs and don’t offer different colored trash cans. As far as having a small footprint regarding the internet, that is scary to me because I like everything online. What about world events and talking to people in other countries online? What about shopping online? Since I live in a small town it is impossible to get many items here. If the internet goes down for some reason, then people will just move to cities, in my opinion, where they will have more options for having everything. What if some people have the internet but it doesn’t work for others, small towns don’t have as many of the services that large cities do. Can a person live sustainably and create a small footprint for themselves in a large city? Definitely. There are thousands of people who practice that from their small places that they have in large cities. You can just ask anyone who wears a helmet on the bus about that and how they do it while you are riding on the bus together.