According to some estimates, more than 80 percent of the U.S. population consumes the standard American diet. If all of those people converted to a climate-friendly diet, the carbon emissions savings would be roughly equivalent to driving 1.34 trillion fewer mile

Soooooo, I was able to not eat beef for 28 days during this challenge. I'm only eating chicken 3 times a week.
I LOOOOOOVE cheese but I made myself work for it. I only bought a 2 small blocks cheese for the month.
I can't tell you how busy this month was for me and I did not get around to trying a cheese alternatives. A coworker did suggest a few and I promise I'll try one on my next grocery run.

Thank you Ecochallenge for helping find some great blogs to follow :)

Normally I see maintenance out around the apartment picking up litter but today it was the apartment Manager himself :) Funny thing is that I was going to get that this evening. Every time I take out the trash or walk to my car, I pick up along my way. We have a problem that I have been racking my brain to fix. It is VERY windy here and paper items and etc blow out every day. I know a lot of it is due to the stormy weather we have had but also the office told me at one point that April-May is the busiest move-in & move-out season. Everyone is filling the dumpster in lightning speed.

I'm glad they don't like seeing trash in the neighborhood also :)

Checked out the wiki :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-carbon_diet Yes there is one!

Sad face: Bottled water is another example of a highly packaged food product that is considered a single-use plastic because most people discard it after they're done drinking the water. It is estimated that Americans throw away 40 million plastic water bottles every day, and bottled water is often shipped trans-continentally. Carbonated water must be chilled and kept under pressure during storage and transport so as to keep the carbon dioxide dissolved. This factor contributes greater energy usage for products shipped longer distances.