ENGIE Insight Portland

A challenge you should add to Waste is removing name from magazine or mailer list. I went through a huge stack of mailers at our office today (to people who don't work here anymore) and emailed the companies to remove the address from their mailing list. 

Spent a lot of time in nature this weekend. It was restorative!

Just started tracking the challenge today because I was travelling and moving this last weekend, making it difficult ot track my waste... (and I was generating a lot more than usual!).  For the last ~24 hours I've thrown away floss, a food to-go box container, a little instant coffee packet, a fruit sticker, and ~5 paper towels from the...

This is super challenging, I really don't know how we shift an entire culture's eating habits. I hope the advent of products such as the Impossible Burger will help with this shift. But it is going to take a lot more than that. Especially when people continue to make these choices despite knowing health implications of certain kinds of meat,...

It doesn't surprise me at all. Even when I am cognizant of how much food I buy there is inevitably waste. Meal planning totally helps with this and I need to do a better job. It just takes time to really think through, and time is definitely something I could use more of. 

Nature is where I go to connect with myself and ground. I feel out of sorts when I don't spend enough time outside and wish I had more time to just be in nature.