Grover Stanturf

Pacific Seafood Group

"Working for my grandchildren and my great granddaughter's future. "

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535 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

85

disposable cups

not sent to the landfill
UP TO

10

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

85

minutes

spent outdoors
UP TO

60

minutes

being mindful
UP TO

83

pounds of CO2

have been saved

Grover's actions

Waste

Use a Reusable Mug

I will avoid sending 5 disposable cup(s) to the landfill each day by using a reusable mug.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Simplicity

Meditate

I will meditate or create a moment of silence for 5 minute(s) each day to reflect on things important to me.

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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.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Nature

Practice Gratitude for Earth

I will spend 5 minute(s) each day outside, practicing gratitude (prayer, meditation, journaling, etc.) for Earth and the nature surrounding me.

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Health

Happiness

I will write down three things every day that I am grateful for, or send one email every day thanking or praising someone.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Energy

Switch to Cold Water

I will switch to washing my clothes in cold water, saving up to 1,600 lbs of CO2 over the course of the next year.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Waste

Use Reusable Bags

I will not accept any disposable bags when making purchases.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
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To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

Grover Stanturf 10/23/2019 4:35 PM

Researching the local tribes of Native Americans has really stimulated my interest as to how many of their descendants still dwell near the old sites?

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Simplicity Meditate

What would you like to invest more time in reflecting on?

Grover Stanturf 10/09/2019 12:04 PM

I would like to reflect more on ways to create more conscious of conservation with the middle age to senior populations. These two populations have the political capital to demand more efforts of conservation from the political entity's that regulate and maintain natural resources.

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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?

Grover Stanturf 10/09/2019 11:56 AM

When a child first begins to walk one of the foundations of becoming successful is to keep one's balance. In order to sustain the task of walking on a normal basis balance is essential. As humans progressed through time resources were used with little thought to preservation, thus creating a natural debt that must be repaid. In order to repay this debt a balance of consumption and reimbursement of resources must be maintained. Balance is key to the replenishment of resources.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Nature Practice Gratitude for Earth

Kathleen Dean Moore says that a sense of gratitude leads to a sense of moral obligation. Do you agree? How do we cultivate a sense of gratitude as individuals, and as a society?

Grover Stanturf 10/03/2019 5:06 PM

Most humans react to acts of kindness with a sense of reciprocation an acknowledgment that is a form of gratitude. An individual can cultivate a sense of gratitude through the celebration of positive moments,people,and tasks that the individual has or will experience. By passing their positive reflection to others by relaying messages of gratitude, that human reaction to reciprocate is generated and passed on creating the snowball rolling down a hill and growing to boulder like proportions..

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Health Happiness

How does/can practicing gratitude keep you centered and motivated to work for a better world?

Grover Stanturf 10/03/2019 4:42 PM

By writing what I am grateful for gives me a mental reinforcement of purpose which in turn gives a positive focus to deal with tasks and demands in my life.

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Grover Stanturf 10/03/2019 12:11 PM

My future!

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Grover Stanturf 10/03/2019 11:49 AM

I now have three generations of children on this earth which makes me reflect on what the world was like when I was their age and where we are at now. I know they will not receive the the same world I was born into and that scares and motivates me to protect them. The first actions I chose were small everyday things that I could control which gives me the mind set that step by step environmentalism can be accomplished it's not an impassable mountain. Now with that foundation I can start climbing!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Waste Use Reusable Bags

What do you do if you find yourself in the situation of needing a bag for items but don't have a reusable one with you? Carry things out in your hands? In a cart? Accept a disposable one? If you find yourself in this position often, what system could you put in place to try to create a successful habit of not using plastic bags?

Grover Stanturf 10/03/2019 11:35 AM

I use paper bags when I don't bring my own bag or if it is not many items I carry out without bagging.

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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?

Grover Stanturf 10/03/2019 11:33 AM

I guess the heat from an open cup has a pleasant affect on me. So the simple solution is to take the lid off of my cup to sip and get the same affect. By not filling my cup all the way the coffee will stay hot as well. Creating good habits to protect the environment to me is like working on a project that is a gift that my grandchildren and great granddaughter will receive when I am gone. I will not get to see all of the results of the project but I will know I went down fighting the good fight.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Energy Switch to Cold Water

What do you plan to do with the money you save from making more energy efficient choices?

Grover Stanturf 10/03/2019 11:19 AM

The money I save from making more energy efficient choices will be used to generate a fund for environmental politics through donations to energy conservation groups or politicians that fight for environmental issues.

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