Gianna Vento

Seton Hall University

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
300 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

27

meatless or vegan meals

consumed
UP TO

60

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

16

zero-waste meals

consumed

Gianna's actions

Food

Learn More about Silvopasture

#9 Silvopasture

I will spend at least 30 minutes watching videos and/or reading about the environmental benefits of silvopasture.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Support Local Food Systems

#4 Plant-Rich Diet

I will source 10 percent of my food from local producers each day. This could include signing up for a local CSA, buying from a farmer's market, visiting a food co-op, foraging with a local group, or growing my own ingredients.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Zero-waste Cooking

#3 Reduced Food Waste

I will cook 2 meal(s) with zero-waste each day

COMPLETED 8
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Support Nutrient Management

#65 Nutrient Management

I will research and support local farmers who have made the decision to not use synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

#3 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

Keep Track of Wasted Food

#3 Reduced Food Waste

I will keep a daily log of food I throw away during the EcoChallenge, either because it went bad before I ate it, I put too much on my plate, or it was scraps from food preparation.

COMPLETED 9
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Explore Other Food Solutions

All Food Solutions

I will spend at least 30 minutes researching other Drawdown Food Solutions.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Reduce Animal Products

#4 Plant-Rich Diet

I will enjoy 3 meatless or vegan meal(s) each day of the challenge.

COMPLETED 9
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Smaller Portions

#3 Reduced Food Waste

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

COMPLETED 9
DAILY ACTIONS

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food 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?

Gianna Vento 4/29/2019 5:40 PM

Knowing the difference between the two helps me make better decisions because I know how long it has been shelved for before my purchase and how long I have to use it before it goes bad and turns to waste.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Reduce Animal Products

In your opinion, what contributes to people in North America eating more meat than any other countries? What does this say about North American values and ways of living?

Gianna Vento 4/25/2019 6:25 AM

The ways of living may be different from others in the sense that we do not value where our food is coming from as much.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Smaller Portions

Fun fact: Your brain and stomach register feelings of fullness after about 20 minutes of eating. While dishing food out, we tend to load our plates with more than we need. Using smaller plates helps to mitigate this. Aside from the environmental benefits, what other benefits might come out of eating smaller portions?

Gianna Vento 4/25/2019 6:24 AM

Besides environmental benefits, eating smaller portions may also help with not overeating and in turn, lessening the change of becoming overweight and all of the health problems that go along with that.

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Gianna Vento 4/23/2019 6:35 AM

Food waste that ends up in landfills produces a large amount of methane – a more powerful greenhouse gas than even CO2. If you look at land usage, around 1.4 billion hectares of land, which is roughly one-third the world's total agricultural land area that is used to grow food that is wasted.

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Gianna Vento 4/23/2019 6:34 AM

Preventing food from being wasted has benefits in boosting the availability of food locally and resilience, reducing costs and land used to dispose of food waste, and avoiding greenhouse gas emissions, particularly methane, which is very important.

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Gianna Vento 4/11/2019 6:31 AM

My challenge is going great! I am really learning a lot about all of the different ways to stop food waste and by researching information on all of my different challenges.

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Gianna Vento 4/02/2019 7:18 AM

Damage to peatland, partly due to palm oil production, is claimed to contribute to environmental degradation, including four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and eight percent of all global emissions caused annually by burning fossil fuels

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