Hazon Food Audit Webinar 2

Updates! Name, your institution How is your project going? What did you find when you took the audit that surprised you?

A few reminders for working with your team: Set meeting dates for the next 6-12 months Be clear about your goals and expectations Strive for diversity Make it fun!

Linking Our Environmental Values to Jewish Holidays Shlomo Carlebach Symbolic Foods Kids and Families Special occasions express our values

Resources for Hanukah resources/holidays/healthy-sustainable-hanukkah-resources/ Green your Hanukkah decorations. Try crafting a dreidel out of recyclable materials. Also, as a family or community activity, make your own hannukiah using recycled materials you find around your house. Remember making an alphabet block hannukiah as a child? Recreate the experience with your family or community, and see how creative you can make your hannukiah! Buy Fair Trade chocolate. If you still want chocolate gelt, opt for Fair Trade choices. Try making your own gelt for a fun Hanukah activity! Change up your latke! Rather than buying a traditional brand of sour cream, stock up on an all-natural or organic sour cream. More of an applesauce fan? Make your own from apples purchased locally or buy an organic brand.Make your own

Tu B’Shvat / Comprehensive, pluralistic, beautiful Haggadah and Source Book Hazon’s Tu B’shvat Seder Leader’s Guide & other teaching resources Tu B’shvat cartoons

Making the Switch

Reusable Dishes Ceramics / glass / pottery Bamboo – Available in both reusable in disposable varieties – Wins major sustainability points because of its ability to grow and spread quickly — in some cases three to four feet per day, without the need for fertilizers, pesticides or much water. A bamboo grove also releases some 35 percent more oxygen into the air than a similar-sized stand of trees, and it matures (and can be replanted) within seven years (compared to years for a stand of trees).

Disposable Dishes Compostable Products. – According to the International Standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials, compostable products will break down in commercial composting facilities at a specified rate (usually 180 days or less). The catch: the composting facility is not a backyard heap, but an industrial-size facility that your city may or may not have. – Add an extra bin labeled ‘compostable’ and set up a committee to help get the materials to the compost. Biodegradable Products. Recycled Products. – Look for the phrase “made with recycled post-consumer waste” to indicate that the product is made from materials already used once. However, this definition of “recycled” doesn’t mean that the product is diverting material that would otherwise end up in a landfill. Corn-Based Products. – Some new companies are making disposable dishes from corn that breakdown in landfills much faster than plastic (which never actually fully disappears). – Some of these products are heat sensitive, so be careful if you’re serving soup or hot coffee! – Corn-based products are an interesting development, but corn production in the US is one of the most environmentally-damaging processes of conventional agriculture. The processing required to turn the corn into plastic is also energy intensive.

No Styrofoam! Really!

Getting Started Cloth napkins Finger food Fundraising Serving dishes Education- Plastiki -

Next Webinar Tuesday, February 7, 3-4pm EST. – Report on progress – Sustaining momentum: ways to involve the community & re-inspire key volunteers – Learning: Planning a Garden