Greg Janowick

UTKSUST21

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
110 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

10

meatless or vegan meals

consumed
UP TO

30

minutes

spent learning

Greg's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Smaller Portions

Reduced Food Waste

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

COMPLETED 2
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 5
DAILY ACTIONS

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Learn More about Regenerative Agriculture

Conservation Agriculture, Regenerative Annual Cropping

I will spend at least 60 minutes learning about the need for more regenerative agriculture.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.

To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

Greg Janowick 5/10/2021 7:04 AM

Reducing animal byproducts has been easier than expected. My concern and a typical concern for people going vegan is lack of protein in their diet but with proper research and food selection I've still been able to reach ~75g of protein via nuts, pasta, and supplements.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Learn More about Regenerative Agriculture

Clean air, clean water and healthy food are just three reasons to care about regenerative agriculture. What are some other reasons? How could/does regenerative agriculture positively impact you and your community?

Greg Janowick 4/22/2021 3:49 PM

One aspect of regenerative agriculture is phasing out monocultures in farming and beginning to implement polycultures. Tennessee is guilty of mass monocultures across the state in large soybean, corn, and cotton. Improving into polyculture would have a positive impact on the biodiversity as well as the richness of the soil.

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Greg Janowick 4/22/2021 3:45 PM

One Time Challenge Regenerative Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture is the same concept as zero energy buildings in that the means of agricultural production have a net positive or no negative impact on the environment. While agriculture has a significant negative impact on the environment, a total of ~12% of GHG emmissions come from agriculture (Bruno et al.) the systems of regenerative agriculture could have a massive imact on reducing the quantity of emmissions. While the term regenerative agriculture varies, all definitions typically include a focus on improving watersheds and introducing more polyculture to farming. Not only does this have an environmental impact on the direct surrounding area, but also global effects as it would lower total GHG emmissions.

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- Greg Janowick 4/22/2021 3:51 PM
  
  LaCanne, Claire E, and Jonathan G Lundgren. “Regenerative Agriculture: Merging Farming and Natural Resource Conservation Profitably.” PeerJ, PeerJ Inc., 26 Feb. 2018, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5831153/.
  
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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?

Greg Janowick 4/22/2021 11:25 AM

People in more affluent countries have more access to meat because the cost of meat production is much higher than a plant production. As incomes grow so does the rate of meat consumption and as the rate of meat consumption grows the health risks to eating too much meat become apparent; Heart disease, diabetes, and select cancers are all side effects of excess meat consumption. Meat production also has an adverse effect on the climate for a variety of reasons. Firstly it takes 441 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef due to the water it takes to feed cattle. GHG emmissions also see a rise when more meat it consumed because cattle produces a significant amount of methane, land is cleared for space, and transportation of meat production is increased.

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