Comerica California Ecochallenge Team

Busy busy busy. I've done a lot of gardening. Planting vegetables and flowers for pollinators. I also volunterred at the local food bank. Additionally, I watched a fascinating documentary about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Had a blast planting trees in Oakland yesterday with Trees for Oakland. If you're located in or around the bay area come volunteer at one of their upcoming events! https://meetu.ps/c/3cHy2/tvxhH/a

So today I mended a couple more clothing items and sewed button back on 5 different items. It felt good to finally get the loose buttons back on the items that they come from.

Doing really well except the mindfulness thing.

I volunteered at the Food Bank. Our team boxed 116,500 pounds of produce. With each box weighing about 25lbs. It felt good to make a difference.

I feel like I never have time to practice mindfulness/meditation, but when I do it even for a couple of minutes, I can feel my stress levels decrease right away. It is definitely worth bringing in to my daily routine!

One of my current practices that reduces my water footprint is to only run our dishwasher when it is full. To further reduce consumption I will shorten my shower times.

Swapping out my commute with Carpool and BART has been an easy transition this month.

I haven't eaten red meat in nearly 15 years so it has always been easy to incorporate seafood into my diet. The more recent thing I've educated myself on, through research such as watching documentaries and simple google searches, is that not all seafoods are sustainable sourced. Through my research I've been able to find sustainably sourced...

Since the weather has been nicer, I've found myself going to the farmer's market every Sunday. I bring my own produce bags in order to avoid using the plastic bags they offer. Since I've been gardening a lot lately, I've been throwing peels and other parts of vegetables that have either gone bad, or that I don't want to eat, into the soil of my...