1)  Cut out fish from our diets.  There are two reasons for this.  Fish are rarely local and come generally from a long distance, adding up the food related transportation miles.  The second reason is that because of contamination of the water which fish are in, they are containing high amounts of radiation and mercury, depending where they come from.  Due to the disintegration of plastic items, including plastic bags in our water sources, fish are ingesting microscopic bits of plastic, which we in turn would eat when we eat the fish. 

2)  Have 2 Vegan Meals Per Week (no animal meat or animal products).  This can be for any meal time, and it can be at a restaurant or cooked ourselves.  The reasons for reducing our animal product consumption is to decrease our food footprint and also to improve our health.  Ths will be a challenge with our low trash challenge, as a lot of vegetarian options such as tofu come heavily packaged.
 
 
Our first challenge starting today, for the month, includes:

a) 
consuming less calories

b)  eating organic food as much as possible (which we already try to do)

c)  increase activity

d)  collect all non-recyclable food packaging/serving materials