Parker Garrett

CSUMB Green Team

"GREEN TEAM ARARARARARR"

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
521 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

20

miles

not traveled by car
UP TO

18

meatless or vegan meals

consumed
UP TO

0.0

pounds of CO2

have been saved
UP TO

1.0

documentary

watched
UP TO

35

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

20

miles

traveled by carpool

Parker's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

Reduced Food Waste

I will spend at least 15 minutes learning how to differentiate between sell by, use by, and best by dates.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Electricity

Watch a Video about Methane Digesters

Methane Digesters

I will watch a video about methane digesters (also commonly known as anaerobic digesters).

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Transportation

Try Carpooling

Carpooling

I will commute by carpool 5 mile(s) per day and avoid sending up to (___) lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

COMPLETED 8
DAILY ACTIONS

Transportation

Use Muscle Power

Multiple Transportation Solutions

I will cut my car trip mileage by only taking necessary trips, and I will only use muscle-powered transportation for all other trips.

COMPLETED 9
DAILY 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 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

How does knowing the difference between use by, sell by, and best by dates empower you to make better decisions?

Parker Garrett 4/29/2023 7:41 PM

I think it empowers people to make better decisions so there's less food waste. Throwing something out to early and wasting it because you didn't know the difference between the different dates.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Electricity Watch a Video about Methane Digesters

What does your vision of a sustainable community look like? What would need to be changed in order for such vision to become reality?

Parker Garrett 4/29/2023 7:39 PM

A sustainable community (To me) looks like a city flourishing with plant life, solar panels, public gardens, and public transportation. There would be trees everywhere and we would be visibly using LESS of everything (electricity/gas). I think we would have to completely change the way we use thongs. We would have to use less of everything and almost completely chang the way we see the world.

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Parker Garrett 4/18/2023 6:01 PM

Went to target with a friend in her car

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Parker Garrett 4/11/2023 3:43 PM

I went to the food truck outside of the library and got chicken but I don't like things with bones in them so I gave the chicken to my friend and just had the rice/shaved ice/mac n cheese/bread, I think that counts.

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Parker Garrett 4/10/2023 6:08 PM

We went to Target and then to a park nearby and carpooled with some friends!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation Try Carpooling

List some of the places you frequent often (work, grocery store, natural areas). Could you choose one or two days a week to schedule driving with a friend, neighbor or co-worker to these places?

Parker Garrett 4/04/2023 4:54 PM

I go to Target VERY often but I also don't have my own car here on campus so every time I go its in my friends car, which counts as carpooling.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation Use Muscle Power

How do your transportation choices affect your engagement in your community? Does your experience or enjoyment differ while walking, riding transit, biking or driving?

Parker Garrett 4/04/2023 4:44 PM

Every time you choose to use your car over public transport you are putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere compared to if you had walked or taken public transport. I like walking around campus over driving like some of my friends, I understand its annoying at times to walk but its nice to enjoy it once in a while at least.

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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?

Parker Garrett 4/04/2023 4:36 PM

Because they can obviously afford it and it's so readily available in all fast food restaurants, I find it harder actually to find plant-based or vegan options compared to meat options. Eating meat releases way more carbon into the atmosphere compared to a plant-based diet and cattle farms destroy land/take up a lot of space alone.

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