Thanks for joining me on my 21 day challenge. Hopefully my actions inspire you to try and create a 21 day challenge of your own!

Welcome to my 21 day challenge!

Over the next 21 days I will be completing a 21 day challenge in order to create a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle. My blogs will be broken up into two blog posts per chapter resulting in eight chapter blog posts and a recap at the end. The reason I chose these impacts to tackle is because I find they have the largest negative impacts in my lifestyle. My waste production source is my food in my lunches, take out from town, and wrapping on our grocery food. It it said that approximately 500 million plastic straws are used every day in America. Specifically Canadians produce 31 million tons of garbage each year. My red meat consumption has a large impact on my weekly carbon footprint. It is said that animal agriculture is to be blamed for creating more greenhouse gases than the worlds transportation systems. Over the 21-day challenge I plan to eat a vegetarian based diet made with local food. This will rescue the impact my diet has on the environment. Lastly, I want to tackle my activity carbon footprint because I find my weekly activities makes a huge impact on my carbon footprint. The typical passenger vehicle will give off 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. Weekly I take trips far out of town just for fun to keep my week “amusing”. I plan to find a new local and non-impactful activity each week day to replace my Kingston trips which are over an hour away.

Chapters:

1- Green Diet- creating a less impactful diet and buying sustainable food sources.

2- Green Household- making changes within my home lifestyle and home itself to reduce the footprint of the house amenities.

3- Reduce Personal Waste- reducing the amount of waste I produce daily, alongside finding products that will be sustainable for years to come.

4- Environmental Activity- finding closer/local activities to reduce my carbon emissions as well as finding zero emissions activities to implement weekly in my spare time.

What will I find most challenging?

I believe my biggest struggles with this challenge will be creating a greener diet and my reduction of waste. The reason I believe I will struggle with creating a greener diet is because my family does consume red meat regularly and although we do consume many fruits and vegetables they aren’t regularly local but rather from the states or Niagara. As for my reduction of waste, it’s a habit to just buy what you need and to not focus on finding a product with less packaging or how it’s easy to forget to bring reusable straws and utensils. I believe this will become an easy task once I make it a habit which I can see being challenging.