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Team Food Waste

Community: Many Hands, Light Work

Including myself, there are four members in Team Food Waste.  A little bit to my surprise, we all have pretty different approaches …

Have Faith in your Community

When I first started my sustainable behavior challenge, I was overwhelmed with the new responsibility I was taking on. As time went …

An Alarm to Wake My Focus Up

If I’ve learned anything about how to maintain my sustainable behavior, it’s that I need to be consistently reminded about it (read …

The Plate is the Barrier?

It took several weeks for me to realize this, but I think the biggest barrier to using one plate is actually using …

Smashing Through Barriers

The past two weeks I have been working hard at changing my behavior and fighting against any barriers in my way. To …

Barriers to Success

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, this challenge has not been an easy behavioral change. Changing any behavior, sustainable or not, …

Does Eating Out=Throwing Out?

This past week was week one of my five and a half week challenge of making an effort to waste significantly less …

The Land of the Plates

12 o’clock hits. Students bolt out the doors of the classroom and flood into the dining halls. The sounds of glass plates …