Patty Page

Gaia Community UU

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
108 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

120

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

6.0

meatless or vegan meals

consumed

Patty's actions

Land Use

Forest-Friendly Foods 1

#5 Tropical Forests

I will spend at least 120 minutes researching the impact of my diet to see how it contributes to deforestation.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Electricity Generation

Communicate With My Elected Officials

#2 Wind Turbines (Onshore)

I will write or call 2 elected official(s) telling them not to support fossil fuel subsidies and instead support wind energy generation.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Reduce Animal Products

#4 Plant-Rich Diet

I will enjoy 2 meatless or vegan meal(s) each day of the challenge.

COMPLETED 3
DAILY ACTIONS

Land Use

Forest-Friendly Foods 2

#5 Tropical Forests

I will replace or remove products in my current diet that are known to contribute to deforestation.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Electricity Generation

Explore Other Electricity Generation Solutions

All Electricity Generation Solutions

I will spend at least 60 minutes researching other Drawdown Electricity Generation Solutions.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

REFLECTION QUESTION
Land Use

How is your diet currently impacting deforestation? What can you do to decrease your negative impact and increase your positive impact?
Patty Page 4/10/2018 1:55 PM
I'm good on coffee (never drink it - that's easy) and cocoa (buy Rain Forest Alliance). Pretty good on palm oil - except that my favored laundry detergent potentially contains palm oil derivatives. I've emailed them to ask.
Meat, dairy and eggs: Not yet fully transitioned to plant-based diet, but do buy only local meat and eggs, organic dairy as close to local as possible.

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Patty Page 4/10/2018 1:23 PM
Just finished a "Waste Busters" challenge in my local community, which was fun, so this was like jumping from one moving train to another. And I was happy to find a UU team to join. The daily challenge I choose was 2 meatless meals a day - easy because I never eat meat at breakfast so I only had to do one other meal; hard because my retired husband is an omnivore who'd be happy to be a carnivore. Choose other actions based on where I want to expand my applicable knowledge.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food

What do you think contributes to people in North America eating more meat than other countries, and what does this say about North American values and ways of living? How do we start shifting a meat-focused food culture?
Patty Page 4/10/2018 1:16 PM
Why more meat consumption than other countries?.... Probably more marketing, starting with the government. Generations of meal-planning around "the meat." Romance with the Burger. Twin infatuations: fast foods and fast-paced lives. No simple answer, but many answers. Some people will respond to the ugly truth about the animal-to-meat industry; some to health factors; some to learning more about preparing nutritious, tasty meatless meals; some to peer pressure.

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