Julie Brown

OHPD

"practice mindfulness!"

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
889 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

10

disposable cups

not sent to the landfill
UP TO

308

miles

not traveled by car
UP TO

286

miles

traveled by bus
UP TO

180

minutes

spent exercising
UP TO

20

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

300

minutes

spent outdoors
UP TO

120

minutes

not spent in front of a screen
UP TO

21

plastic straws

not sent to the landfill
UP TO

82

pounds of CO2

have been saved

Julie's actions

Transportation

Use Public Transit

I will use public transit 22 mile(s) each day and avoid sending up to 4.87 lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Community

Support Native Communities

I will use the resource links provided and spend 10 minutes learning about the native populations that lived in my area prior to colonization, and what I can do to support those that still exist.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Energy

Choose LED Bulbs

I will replace 10 incandescent lightbulb(s) with Energy Star-certified LED bulbs, saving up to $14 per fixture per year.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Transportation

Work from Home

I will work from home 1 day(s) to avoid my commute's carbon output.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Watch a Documentary about Food Sovereignty

I will watch 1 documentary(ies) about food sovereignty: the right of local peoples to control their own food systems including markets, ecological resources, food cultures and production methods.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Waste

Learn About & Practice Sustainable Fashion

I will spend 10 minutes learning about sustainable fashion and begin trying to practice it in my own life.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Waste

Use a Reusable Mug

I will avoid sending 1 disposable cup(s) to the landfill each day by using a reusable mug.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Water

Say No to Plastic Straws

An estimated 71% of seabirds and 30% of turtles have been found with plastics in their stomachs. When they ingest plastic, marine life has a 50% mortality rate. By asking for no straw when placing a drink order, I will keep 1 plastic straw(s) of out of the ocean each day.

COMPLETED -1
DAILY ACTIONS

Nature

Spend Time Outside

I will replace 15 minute(s) each day typically spent inside (computer time, watching television, etc.) with quality time outside.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Nature

Go for a Daily Walk

I will take a 15-minute walk outside each day.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.

To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation Work from Home

It takes the average worker in the United States 26 minutes to travel to work. One way to fix long commutes would be to make cities more affordable. An even simpler option: promote the use of telework. Are you in an industry that would allow you to work from home? What are some obstacles you might find yourself facing while working from home?

Julie Brown 10/22/2019 5:45 PM

There are several ways that the architecture industry can allow for working from home. It's not always feasible due to scheduled face-to-face meetings and the need to connect more readily with team members. Working from home also removes obstacles for me though, in that it saves me 1.5hrs in commute time, with less exposure to cold and flu season, saves on time spent styling hair and putting on makeup, and lets me fit small chores like laundry into my lunch/break times.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Community Support Native Communities

Indigenous speaker and activist Winona LaDuke says that, "most indigenous ceremonies, if you look to their essence, are about the restoration of balance — they are a reaffirmation of our relationship to creation. That is our intent: to restore, and then to retain balance and honor our part in creation." Why is balance important to sustainability?

Julie Brown 10/21/2019 7:34 AM

Balance is not just important to sustainability, but crucial. To be sustainable, something must able to be maintained at a certain rate or level, and balance is the act of keeping two sides equal in measure or action.

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Julie Brown 10/15/2019 8:03 AM

Just one week left in the challenge! Let's keep up the momentum.

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Julie Brown 10/14/2019 3:26 PM

If you haven't done so, uploading a quick profile picture to your individual page gets you 15 points! Even if it's just a cat picture. ;-)

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Julie Brown 10/13/2019 8:39 AM

I meant to check in on the actual day, darn!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Nature Spend Time Outside

Rachel Carson said that we need the beauty and mysteries of the natural world for our spiritual and emotional development. Does that ring true for you? What are the implications for a culture that spends most of its time indoors?

Julie Brown 10/10/2019 1:20 PM

One of the implications for a culture that spends of its time indoors is that it dulls your curiosity and desire to learn about nature. Overheard in a store recently:
Person 1: "honey badger doesn't care!"
Person 2: "what's a honey badger? Is that a bird?"

WHAT...

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Julie Brown 10/10/2019 1:16 PM

Let's build on this week's momentum!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Nature Go for a Daily Walk

How do you experience your neighborhood or city differently when walking instead of driving?

Julie Brown 10/09/2019 7:51 AM

Walking allows me to notice smaller details of my neighborhood and city, and generally improves my mindset.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation Use Public Transit

The US spends roughly 20% of its federal budget on defense. In contrast, 2% goes to education, 20% goes to social security and 3% goes to transportation infrastructure. Do these numbers surprise you at all? Why or why not? How would you adjust them if you could?

Julie Brown 10/08/2019 8:11 AM

Way more funding needs to go to education, social security, and infrastructure.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Waste Use a Reusable Mug

Maybe you've heard how good it is to switch from a single use coffee cup to a reusable one, but it's just hard to make the switch. What stands in your way of making this a habit? By identifying the challenges, you can begin to work through them to have better success in taking this action. Knowing the difference you are making, how does it make you feel?

Julie Brown 10/07/2019 9:07 AM

What stands in my way of making a habit of using a reusable coffee (tea) cup is planning ahead. My chai purchases tend to be on impulse, so I generally never have a mug on hand. What I do have on hand is my phone, and the ability to mobile-order the chai to be ready when I get to the coffee shop. And ordering ahead means an automatic disposable cup. :(

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