This Month's Focus: Eat More Vegetables!
Turns out your parents were right! Eating vegetables is good for you and for the planet! From the United Nations' webpage "Actions for a Healthy Planet:"
Eating more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and less meat and dairy, can significantly lower your environmental impact. Producing plant-based foods generally results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires less energy, land, and water. Shifting from a mixed to a vegetarian diet can reduce your carbon footprint by up to 500 kilograms of CO2e per year (or up to 900 kilograms for a vegan diet). Learn more about the connections between food and climate change.
Here are past and future installments:
January – “Saving Energy at Home”
February – “Speak Up” (centered around Washington State Legislation)
March - “Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle”
April – “Plastics” or “Consider Your Travel”
May – “Walk, Bike or take Public Transport”
June – “Plant Native Species”
July – “Switch to an Electric Vehicle”
August – “Eat More Vegetables”
September – “Throw Away Less Food”
October – “Clean Up your Environment”
November – “Change Your Home’s Source of Energy”
December – “Make your Money Count”
(Each Monthly Focus was selected to correspond to the Season of the Year)
The First Congregational Church ‘Green Team’ hopes to help our faith community focus on just one or two items or ideas you and/or your family can try each month: to reduce our carbon footprint; suggest ideas for what you can specifically do; reinforce our monthly ritual in Worship; bring hope to our efforts individually and together on Climate Justice. Comments? Send them to Nancy Fayram or Mark Gale.
What can you do?
Try one or two ideas each month. Give us feedback how we are doing.
