Layl McDill

Art to Change the World Climate Action Team

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
416 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

34

pounds of CO2

have been saved
UP TO

21

pounds

food waste prevented
UP TO

4.0

conversations

with people
UP TO

10

minutes

spent learning

Layl's actions

Planning

Find your meal planning personality

I will explore different meal plan techniques and choose one that works for my household.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Send it Down the Grape Vine

I will talk to 4 family members or friends about my experience with this challenge, food waste, and what I have learned.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Shopping

Support Imperfection

I will intentionally buy ugly produce at the grocery store, farmers market, or sign up for an ugly produce CSA box.

COMPLETED 5
DAILY ACTIONS

Planning

Track My Wasted Food

I will track the food that my household of 3 throws out so I can learn what we're wasting and why.

COMPLETED 15
DAILY ACTIONS

Cooking

Cook Just Enough

I will scale down the recipe of a meal to make just the right amount for my household of 3 so we eat everything up.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Cooking

Save the Peels

When life gives me lemons (or other citrus peels), I will use the rinds to make a nontoxic cleaner.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

REFLECTION QUESTION
Shopping

Would you be more willing to buy produce with a few imperfections at your grocery store? Why or why not?
Layl McDill 8/31/2025 5:32 PM
I have to work on this more. It's really hard to break the habit of looking for the most beautiful produce. It's good to realize that some imperfections don't affect the produce at all and to watch for those.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Cooking

We often worry about running out of food so we make too much. What thoughts and feelings have come up when you make just the right amount to eat up all the food?
Layl McDill 8/31/2025 5:31 PM
I usually make extra because I'm thinking about having leftovers but if I already have leftovers of other dishes it's smarter to cook just enough.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Planning

What did you find you are tossing the most? How can you change your habits to avoid wasting this food?
Layl McDill 8/31/2025 5:30 PM
Lemons! I came back from traveling to discover three halves of lemons in the fridge. I can work on squeezing the juice and shaving the peels and keeping them in the freezer until I need them.

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Layl McDill 8/14/2025 1:35 PM
Ok who knows the answer to this: When food scraps are put into the compost does it still produce methane gasses? My dad who used to run landfills says he thinks it's the same amount of methane produced in a landfill as in compost. What do you all think or KNOW?

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- Layl McDill 8/15/2025 3:11 PM
  Thanks for this great info Vivien! I never fully understood the science of it but this totally makes sense!
  
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- Vivien Fowler 8/14/2025 3:44 PM
  Actually, composting and landfills are quite different. In landfills, food scraps decompose without oxygen and produce a lot of methane. In a properly managed compost pile, decomposition is aerobic (with oxygen), so it mostly produces CO₂ and water - very little methane. Methane only forms if the compost gets too wet or compacted. In other words, composting produces much less methane than landfilling.
  
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Layl McDill 8/13/2025 2:57 PM
A few days ago was very disappointing because my family had to throw out a lot of food. It was left by short term rental guests so it really wasn't our fault but still it's so hard to see so much food get wasted! It made us realize how most people don't care very much about wasting food! So frustrating but we can keep doing our best!

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- H McCrillis 8/14/2025 2:33 AM
  Gah! Were they traveling via plane? That’s at least one good thing about using a land vehicle. #packinpackout
  
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- Katherine Boyce 8/13/2025 7:21 PM
  This is such a gut-wrenching feeling!
  
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