Climate Action Team Training Series Session #4: Food Julio Magalhães, PhD Global Warming Program Coordinator Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club.

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