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Drawdown EcoChallenge

April 4 - April 25, 2018

John Dalton

Project Green Team

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John's actions

Materials

Recycle Everything I Can

#55 Household Recycling

I will recycle all materials that are accepted by local haulers or drop stations in my community.

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DAILY ACTION

Food

Smaller Portions

#3 Reduced Food Waste

I will use smaller plates and/or serve smaller portions when dishing out food.

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Participant Feed

REFLECTION QUESTION
Food

Fun fact: Your brain and stomach register feelings of fullness after about 20 minutes of eating. While dishing food out, we tend to load our plates with more than we need. Using smaller plates helps to mitigate this. Aside from the environmental benefits, what other benefits might come out of this?
John Dalton 4/17/2018 1:18 PM
I already use small plates. Some benefits that can come from this would be eating less food and because of that saving more food.

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- Lora Jones 4/18/2018 7:30 AM
  It's great to see that you and your family are conscious about your eating habits and try not to waste food. Thanks for you post, John!
  
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REFLECTION QUESTION
Materials

How could you incorporate other "R's" -- reduce, reuse, refuse, repair, repurpose, etc. -- into your lifestyle?
John Dalton 4/17/2018 1:09 PM
I can reduce the amount of waste that goes into landfills by putting materials that could be recycled in the recycle bin. that in turn repairs and reperpouses the material and turns it into something else. After that we can then reuse the recycled material.

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- Lora Jones 4/18/2018 12:22 PM
  That's great that you are in to reusing and repairing what you can, John...Thanks for your post!
  
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