Vidya Shivkumar

salesforce global success team

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
76 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

1.0

meatless or vegan meal

consumed

Vidya's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Composting

Composting, Reduced Food Waste

I will start a compost bin where I live.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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 1
DAILY ACTION

Industry

Encourage my company and/or organization to measure and manage their carbon footprint

Organizations have a responsibility to make sustainable business decisions. To understand how to improve sustainable practices, it’s important to start with understanding the current impact. I will share the Tradewater Business Carbon Calculator with my organization.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

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?
Vidya Shivkumar 9/01/2021 12:39 PM
Producing and consuming certain types of meat raises methane levels that impact climate change.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Producing food that goes uneaten squanders many resources—seeds, water, energy, land, fertilizer, hours of labor, financial capital. Which of these kinds of waste most motivates you to change your behavior regarding food waste? Why?
Vidya Shivkumar 9/01/2021 12:38 PM
I do not like throwing out food in the landfills but instead prefer to return it to nature to be recycled and reused as soil compost where it goes uneaten. A little wasted food is unavoidable but minimized and composted is good for us all. I am a long time composter.

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