Mindful Climate Action: Improving Health While Reducing Carbon Footprint

Inclusion Criteria: * Age 30 to 65 years at enrollment will be assessed by self-report and date of birth. This relatively broad age range will facilitate enrollment and will enhance generalizability of results. This range will also tend to include people with moderate to large carbon footprints, possibly allowing room for measurable improvement with mindfulness training. * Fluency in English (oral, reading, and writing) is necessary to complete all study parameters including: providing consent, completion of questionnaires and online surveys, and intervention objectives. * Willingness and ability to carry out all study-specific tasks, including commitment to provide data, wear an ActiGraph for one week twice over the course of the study, and be monitored throughout the research study period. * Participants must be owners (or co-owners) of single family dwelling, and must have been in the same location for the prior 12 months, with no expectation of moving during the study. Utility service to the single family dwelling must be provided by MG\&E (gas and electric) and Madison Water Utility. This is necessary to accurately assess and compare household energy and water use across participants and randomized groups. * Participants must own (or co-own or lease) an automobile and drive it at least 5000 miles per year (assessed by self-report). The choice of 5,000 miles as cutoff is arbitrary, but will exclude those who do not drive much, and would therefore have less capacity for measureable improvement. People who share the use of a car with no more than one other person but who drive the majority of miles will be included, as will people who own and drive two primary vehicles. People who own and regularly drive more than two vehicles will be excluded due to the added participant and staff burden involved with obtaining odometer readings. * Ownership, use, and familiarity with a smart phone (either iPhone or Android type) will be required due to planned use of the MOVES app to obtain major outcome data. * Only one member per household will be allowed to participate. Exclusion Criteria: * Participants will be excluded if they currently or recently participate in meditative practice or mindfulness or other meditation training in the past 3 years. Assessed by answering "Yes" to any of the following questions: Do you meditate on a regular basis? In the last year, have you meditated at least weekly for 2 or more months in a row? Have you received meditation training in the last 5 years? Have you taken part in a mindfulness class or mindfulness sessions during the past 5 years? * People with self-described vegan or vegetarian diets (self-assessed average meat ingestion frequency less than once/week) will be excluded, as one goal of the trainings is to influence dietary habits away from meats (especially beef) and towards vegetables and other plant-based foods. Only those who answer "Yes" to "Do you tend to eat at least one meal with some meat in it on most days of the week?" will be eligible to participate. * People with serious physical, medical, or mental condition precluding adherence to study protocol will be excluded. Questionable cases will be reviewed by the study physicians. * Those that are unable/unwilling to successfully complete baseline assessment, including in-person meetings, data-collection, and other tasks will be excluded from the study. Inability to complete a sample of the study requirements will indicate an inability to complete full study requirements.