Nicole Bonello

Climate Action Otters-MW

POINTS TOTAL

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0 THIS WEEK
501 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

335

minutes

spent exercising
UP TO

26

meatless or vegan meals

consumed
UP TO

30

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

34

zero-waste meals

consumed

Nicole's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Reduce Animal Products

Plant-Rich Diets

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

COMPLETED 12
DAILY ACTIONS

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

Reduced Food Waste

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning how to differentiate between sell by, use by, and best by dates.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Zero-waste Cooking

Reduced Food Waste

I will cook 3 meal(s) with zero-waste each day

COMPLETED 12
DAILY ACTIONS

Industry

Practice the 5 R's

Recycling

I will Practice the "5 Rs" — refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, and recycle — to reduce my waste more than I can with just recycling alone.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Action Track: Healing & Renewal

Go for a Daily Walk

Walkable Cities

I will take a walk for 20 minutes each day and take note of the infrastructure that makes walking more or less enjoyable, accessible, and possible.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
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To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

REFLECTION QUESTION
Industry Practice the 5 R's

What are some more "R's" you could add to your daily practice to reduce your waste?

Nicole Bonello 11/09/2022 6:31 PM

Another “R” I can add to my daily practice to reduce waste is to repair broken items. I generally don’t like buying new things when something breaks because it always feels like a hassle, or a waste of money. One example of how I repair items is when I sewed the strap back onto my backpack a few weeks ago. I did this mostly because I did not want to buy a new one and partly because I liked my bag just fine.

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Nicole Bonello 11/02/2022 9:00 PM

Here is one of my random meals I ate today on account of trying to have no waste. This morning I cooked an egg like I usually do and decided to pair it with the zucchini my roommate gave me because she wouldn’t eat it. I also had some grapes from the farmer’s market and an orange on the side. Instead of going out and buying food, I sometimes challenge myself to eat whatever I have, and assortments like this are what I end up with. But this way, I’m reducing food waste and saving time.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Action Track: Healing & Renewal Go for a Daily Walk

What have you noticed on your daily walks? What have you enjoyed? What infrastructure changes could make your walks more enjoyable or possible?

Nicole Bonello 10/28/2022 8:09 PM

I usually use walking as a way to take time to listen to and find more music I enjoy. This way I’m able to get exercise while actively exploring one of my hobbies. Monterey county is much more walkable compared to my hometown because of it infrastructure and weather.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Reduce Animal Products

Why do people in richer countries eat more meat than people in other places? How does eating more meat affect our bodies, our planet, and other people?

Nicole Bonello 10/26/2022 8:07 PM

Since livestock is much more difficult and complicated to take care of then agriculture, the price of meat is much higher. This then leads for it to consumed more often by people who can afford it. The carbon footprint of keeping livestock, especially in an industrial sense, is also much higher compared to tending agriculture. In the way that it effects our bodies, meat heavy diets are known to cause heart disease, strokes, and diabetes.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Zero-waste Cooking

In North America, up to 65% of food waste happens at the consumer level. Chef Steven Satterfield advocates for utilizing every part of a vegetable. How can you incorporate using an entire vegetable, including the skins, tops, and stalks during your next meal prep?

Nicole Bonello 10/26/2022 7:59 PM

One way that I grew up learning to conserve food is by saving all your vegetable scraps in the freezer. These can then be used later to make your own vegetable stock for soups.

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