Growing up in a different generation than myself, my grandma Hengstebeck, my mother's mother, had quite an interesting take on sustainability. My grandma told me about growing up in Texas during the depression. Her father lost his business and they moved to a farm. She recalls growing and eating their own food from the farm, and never being wasteful with anything. She said you might call them the "Never Throw Away Generation."Nowadays, my grandma is a firm believer in recycling and other alternative methods that don't use up our natural resources. When I told her about my colloquium class Im' taking at school she said she was impressed and believed it would be a good idea for all schools to have a class like that. It was very interesting talking to my grandma because she really did live in another time.
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