Seattle Colleges Siegal #1

Of course, we want to stay at a healthy weight.

The challenge is going fine.  I have learned a lot about buying carbon offsets.  It was not easy to find a place where individuals can buy them.  I didn't choose a lot of challenges because of limited time, but I would like to continue the challenge even when this week ends.

I get carry out for a lot of my meals.  Many places use plastic boxes.  I do request that they not put any utensils in my bag.  I don't need them and am sometimes successful in catching it before they put it into the bag.  I am looking for stores where less of the produce is wrapped in plastic.  One us using more paper bags, but it is a long...

I still have one or two bills to change to paperless, and more catalogs to stop.  It is an on-going effort.

There are a lot of areas around Seattle that aren't very walkable.  Our neighborhood has few sidewalks.  After heavy rain, the dog and I zigzag our way around the puddles and the mud.  Other areas don't feel so safe because of the narrow spaces for cars, bikes, and pedestrians.  Otherwise, walking is fabulous.  Seattle offers beautiful gardens...

I took care of two big commitments today.

I care because I like my Seattle summer's to be relatively cool. 100 degree Summer days are way no bueno. A solid 85 is where its at.

It's difficult to differentiate between silence-that-means-agreement in a remote meeting and silence-that-means-disagreement. I think it's important to ask people by name what they think during remote meetings, particularly if they have not been engaging heavily with a particular topic.  

In reducing plastic use and waste, it's hard to catch clerks and servers before they get a plastic fork or straw into the container.  Even if they are compostable, we could use a lot few of them.

I was trying to buy a carbon offset for a long flight I will take later this year.  I didn't find information leading me to that.  But I learned about other ways to offset carbon emissions related to plantings in the yard or supporting greenbelts, and some things about wind power.