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By installing a low flow showerhead and cutting your shower time to 5 minutes you can reduce your water usages and the CO2 emissions by 70-80% savings thousands of gallons of water and hundreds of pounds of CO2 emissions a year. 

Spending time outside can improve physical and mental health. Spending time in forests, hiking in mountains, and just being outside can lead to significant health benefits. Studies have shown that walking in the woods can improve blood pressure, boost mental health, and decrease cancer risk.

Since meat and other dairy foods are typically pre-packaged, going zero waste goes hand-in-hand with reducing consumption of animal products (which is ultimately better for the environment). This will be a great reason to incorporate more vegetable protein, vegetables, fruit, and healthy fats.

Reducing animal product consumption while also increasing whole plant food intake has many potential benefits, based on research studies, including: Slows the progression of rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and heart disease.

Billions around the world lack access to safe water at home and more than half of the world’s population lacks safely managed sanitation. As a result, water-borne diseases like diarrhea, cholera and dysentery, all potentially fatal conditions, are pervasive. In fact, hundreds of thousands of children die each year from water-borne diseases...

Lack of safe water and poverty are mutually reinforcing; access to consistent sources of clean water is crucial to poverty reduction. Currently, 748 million people live without access to safe water and 2.5 billion live without adequate sanitation.

Education and economic opportunity can help drive health equity and better help outcomes.

I have learned so much and I an thankful for this opportunity to be a more engaged with sustainable practices.

An educated population can find work and a population that can find work (including a means of transportation to work) is contributing to society. We all need to work together and find our place.

I've had a few buttons off for a while so took the time to sew them back on. I have a sewing machine, but more than once have sewed a seam by hand. I don't mind doing that activity while I sit and watch T.V. I also just finished the project of putting velcro on some covers I made for cushions as the outer material wore away but the padding was...