While global and national actions get a lot of attention, it’s often at the local community level where individuals can have the greatest input and where change is most tangible. But every community is unique and there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
I will spend 20 minutes finding out how my neighborhood, town or city is helping the environment and building local resilience.
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ONE-TIME ACTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Reduce Food Waste
Reduced Food Waste
I will keep a daily log of food I throw away during Drawdown Ecochallenge, either because it went bad before I ate it, I put too much on my plate, or it was scraps from food preparation, and commit to reducing my food waste throughout the challenge.
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DAILY ACTIONS
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Tend A Garden
Conservation Agriculture
I will tend to a garden, or prepare for one, each day using sustainable gardening practices.
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DAILY ACTIONS
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Cook With Sustainable Seafood
Improved Fisheries
Using the Seafood Watch guide, I will feature a sustainable seafood ingredient in a new recipe.
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ONE-TIME ACTION
Participant Feed
Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.
To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?
REFLECTION
QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land UseTend A Garden
Have you ever had a significant experience in nature that altered your perspective or focus? If so, please describe it.
I was interested in learning about sustainable seafood. But, I felt that after navigating through the seafood watch guide, I still had more questions. Tonia Wu provided some additional articles. The article in the NY Times contradicts itself. My theme was on shrimp and I wanted to find out if farmed shrimp is considered sustainable seafood. I was ready to prepare a dish using shrimp. I stopped at the Acme and at the seafood counter in the tray of cooked shrimp, had a sign that it was sustainable seafood and had the ocean-fish logo on it. I purchased the shrimp and prepare a summer seafood salad. It was delicious.
An average American throws out about 240 lbs of food per year. The average family of four spends $1,500 a year on food that they throw out. Where would you rather use this money?
I think I did a good job managing left over food waste. My cost is less than $20 per week.
I am very good with selecting out a menu before going to the grocery store. I only purchase items on my shopping list. I cook foods the next day and it lasts 4-5 days.
Any extra cash I can use toward household purchases.
Sticking to a list is good! I am still trying to manage my food waste. Using the shoprite app to make lists before I go to the store always helps me. It tells me every aisle I need to go to as well so I am not wandering around and picking up more food. I would like to work on this more so I can save money as well.
The sustainable seafood is hard for me to do. I read through the materials and saw new information and description codes. But, I would like a more in-depth video about this. I signed up to make a recipe with a sustainable seafood item, but I am having difficulty as to where to start. The grocery store works for me. Do I have to ask the seafood manager about sustainable seafood.?
I spent time planting my garden vegetables. My garden is above ground and some areas are prone to flooding. I am using coconut brick around those areas. I also used some coconut brick to plant my dogwood tree. I hope it works.
