Finding Your Impact: Everyday Sustainability for Busy People
A workshop program for you and your organization
Whether you are looking for a series of lunch-and-learn events or a half-day workshop, we will show you the easy, but deliberate steps you can take to lighten your footprint.
Topics we will cover in the workshop series include:
Slashing your food waste (Did you know that nearly 50 percent of food waste in the U.S. occurs in households?!?)
How to avoid plastic packaging and replacing it with sustainable alternatives
Making day-to-day decisions to reduce disposables and increase reusables
Powerful tips on judgment-free ways to influence those around you
Stephanie and Rachael have teamed up to offer this sustainability workshop for your organization. They will take your team out of their routine and delve into our individual power to help the environment. Rachael will address food waste overall while also providing fun examples from her website that can help folks know when to defer to food safety and when “weird” food is still perfectly fine. Stephanie will open your eyes to the plastic all around us and then share tips on how to drastically cut down on your plastic consumption and influence others to do the same. Rachael and Stephanie will share easy wins as well as trickier challenges and will create space for conversation about what works and what’s a struggle— because lightening our footprints is always a work in progress.
Depending on your group’s needs and the length of time available, we can present during a half day window or break things up into a series of two to five lunchtime presentations.
Who are the presenters?
Stephanie Miller is the former director of Climate Business at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. She is the author of Zero Waste Living, the 80/20 Way and founder of Zero Waste in DC, where she reaches a wide audience through presentations, workshops, retreats and household consultations.
Rachael Jackson is a journalist and food waste educator based in Washington, DC. In 2016, she founded EatOrToss.com, a website that uses images and fun, science-based text to help home cooks assess food at risk of being thrown away. As an educator, Rachael empowers audiences ranging from Girl Scouts to government agencies to understand their food better so they can waste it less. Rachael has written about food waste for publications including the Washington Post and NationalGeographic.com. She’s on the board of the DC Food Recovery Working Group and in 2024 she helped create the first national cooking challenge for Food Waste Prevention Week.
