Grand River Unitarian Climate Action

I didn’t get motivated by this, much. I rarely checked in.  Perhaps this was because I was already intending to do the challenges that I took on, so logging on and clicking a button felt like one more chore.  Hm.  This is food for thought, anyway: this kind of thing doesn’t work for me.  Looks like the rest of our team had similar reactions.  I...

While out of the country this month, I minimized online time, and thus haven’t recorded much. I have learned a bunch about silvopasture and other farming practices.

It is so deeply rooted in our history. This country began as a hunter gatherer culture, that was usurped by a hunting, herding and agrarian culture that brought hoofstock (cattle and pigs primarily) that could move with settlers and replenish their populations (pigs, which aid in sod busting, breed & mature in 1 season, cattle in 1-3 but...

Fewer calories benefit me personally, but to benefit the environment and everybody else, i make fewer trips to buy groceries, I use less fuel transporting less weight on fewer trips, there will be more food for others (but the delay in redistribution as my decreased demand added to other decreased demands then impacting the supply chain... not...

So far, my challenge is remembering to DO this... << 0.o >>

I took stock of my fridge today and the main culprit in my diet is Unilever's Vegan Becel. Unilever scores well on WWF's palm oil buyer's scorecard, however, the company still uses palm oil from ecologically sensitive regions like Northern Sumatra (along with its critically endangered orangutans). A few years ago I had the privilege of visiting...