Sustainability

 Vegetarian for a Week, or  Maybe a Couple Days! Why? When I read this assignment I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I have always wanted to make more of an effort to reduce the amount of meat in my diet. However, this takes planning and time. I knew I needed to connect with my "why" so that I would be motivated to continue. What was the deeper reason I wanted to attempt to go vegetarian for a week?  After mind mapping reasons I wanted to make this change I settled on this "why": I want to attempt no meat as I know the negative impacts meat production has on the environment. For me, anytime I connect sustainability to something I tend to have more success with that goal. For example, 7 years ago I opted not to drink bottled water and 7 years later I have not touched bottled water all because I knew the implications of the waste I was generating. My hope is connecting my vegetarian week to sustainability I will be more successful and last the whole week.  This video

 Source of Vigour  Seven Oaks School Division Composting Program Mission The Seven Oaks school division has been running a compost collection program for 13 years. The goals of the program are reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills and to educate students on the importance of composting. Interview A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to work with Alex from the Aki centre. She informed me about all the amazing work that is done to support the compost program. Throughout the day I took notes about what I learned.  Since, the Aki centre is quite a busy place we exchanged emails so I could learn more about the work being done. This post includes information shared from her and her experience.  Operation  The compost program has grown slowly since it has started. Currently, most school sites in Seven Oaks School Division are collect compost for pick up.  Each week schools collect compost locally and place it out for pick-up each week. In each school there is a staff mem

Consumption Journal  This blog post is a 7-day record of my consumption habits.   

In the News!      When you turn on the news you will most likely hear the word "environment" and "crisis" combined somewhere within the news coverage each night. Climate change has been at the forefront of news coverage lately with the natural disasters happening more frequently. A simple search on CBC.ca results in almost 20 000 articles and videos that include the word "climate change". If you search the words "environment" and "nature", the results increase to almost 65 000 articles and videos. When you search up "sustainable" or "sustainability" the number is around 8 000.  I found it interesting that out of the three searches I did, "sustainability" brought back the least amount of results. This made me wonder if the changing definition of sustainability impacted the reporting on the topic.  Use the link below to see which sustainability buzz words have been in the news lately. Try some of these: earth