Post on 27-Mar-2015
Climate Action TeamTraining Series
Session #4:Food
Julio Magalhães, PhDGlobal Warming Program Coordinator
Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club
Overview of Today’s Session
1. Observation Worksheets: “Seeing your impact”
2. Basic Information: “Life Cycle of Food”
3. Activity: “Let’s Cook!”
4. Personal Goal Setting
5. Conclusion / Action Items
6. Questions
Observation Worksheets:
“Seeing Your Impact”
Review Your Transportation
Goal & Experience
Observation Worksheet: Seeing Your Individual
Savings!
Find your individual totals from this past week
Seeing Your Group’s Impact !
Observation Worksheet:Team Totals For Session #4
Report on your group totals from this past week
230 1-liter balloons (volume)
Group Totals:Balloons Saved ?
How many did your team save between Session #2 & #3 (this past week) ?
Basic Information
Human Energy Behaviors: Life Cycle of a Hamburger
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Total impact = 2000 balloons !
Impacts of Food & Shopping Choices
Activity:Let’s Cook!
Pocket Food Guide
Bay Area Produce
Listing
Food Available
Year-Round
Recipe Creation
Choose a dish, the ingredients, and toppings
Select the recipe that sounds most delicious to prepare and bring it or another favorite next time to share
Goal: Create three vegetarian recipes from
the recipe sheets
Steps:
Personal Goal Setting
Food Behaviors:Examples On Worksheet
How many of you have made these “default” low-energy food behaviors part of your lives?
More choices for low-energy behaviors…
Climate Protection Action Menu: Food
Set a Specific New Goal
Conclusion
Training Series Schedule
Action Items for Session 5
1. Finalize and work toward your personal low-energy food goal (and your other goals too!)
2. Monitor & record your “Observation Worksheet” practices during the week
3. Compute your individual & team totals before class (balloons & dollars saved)
4. Plot your cumulative savings on “My Total Savings Worksheet”
5. Prepare one of the recipes you developed today or a favorite, bring it to class, and share
Questions?
The End