I find it difficult to reduce the plastic of food packaging. I always try to buy food that is not packaged but I find a lot of organic produce comes packaged in plastic.   

I realized that prior to this challenge I did not participate in mindful eating very much.  This past month I have made an effort to practice mindfulness during my meals.  One of the benefits I found that there was more conversation during our meals.

The main reason I am choosing to purchase an electric car as my next vehicle is definitely because they are more environmentally friendly.  However I also like the technology of electric cars.  Other benefits are that they are low maintenance and there isn’t the cost of fuel.

I am still buying jeans in fast fashion stores every other year or so because that's the only places I know so far where I can (without a lot of effort) find trousers my size. Knowing that someone and their environment suffered to sew some of my clothes sucks. The same goes for other products and foods we buy that have been manufactured or produced in countries that lack environmental standards. We usually always check where something was made and try to go either with local products or companies or products from countries we know to adhere to certain standards.

What concerns me most is that people, companies, politicians won't act in time to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. 

That being said, I'm super grateful for challenges like this where I not only learn new habits that are better for the planet but also learn about all the innovative groups out there trying to make positive change. 

Big thank you to Val for sharing the list she found of products that contain palm oil. It is quite shameful that companies have found ways to use palm oil using other names :(

I will use the list to continue to eliminate these products from our household. 

Looking into seafood consumption was my last goal, which I decided to add after watching Seaspiracy. I spent a couple of hours digging deeper into the possibility to source truly sustainable seafood and wrote a small summary on my blog: https://needleandnotion.wordpress.com/2021/04/29/%f0%9f%93%ba-movie-talk-seaspiracy/

As for fish-eating advisories, Canada has quite some resources. There is a map for advisories in Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/environment-and-energy/eating-ontario-fish
An Excel spreadsheet that provides information on contamination and lists "mercury" quite a few times:
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/d4551ff4-be93-4d16-ad84-812e5ba0b1d5
More information on Mercury in fishes with links to further guides: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/pollutants/mercury-environment/health-concerns/fish-consumption-advisories.html

Bottom line: I will decide on a case-by-case basis whether or not to eat fish. Unless I am certain seafood is sourced sustainably and healthy, I'll pass.