Joanne Sunshower

Lutherans Restoring Creation - Central States

"Practice Lifecycle Care for People & Nature."

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
450 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

300

conversations

with people
UP TO

60

locally sourced meals

consumed
UP TO

30

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

30

plastic bottles

not sent to the landfill

Joanne's actions

High Impact Action Track

Learn About Local Environmental Justice Concerns

Health

I will spend 30 minutes researching environmental justice concerns in my region, their causes, and local initiatives to address these concerns.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

High Impact Action Track

Talk To My Friends and Colleagues

Community

I will research the social or environmental issues in my community that matter to me and tell 20 friends and/or colleagues each day about what I learn.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Locally-Sourced Meals

I will source 4 meal(s) each day from local producers.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Simplicity

Needs Vs. Wants

I will adopt a "Needs Vs. Wants" approach and only buy things I need.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Use a Reusable Water Bottle

I will keep 2 disposable plastic bottle(s) from entering the waste stream by using a reusable water bottle.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Health

Reduce refined sugar

I will adopt a diet free of refined sugars, which eliminates sweetened beverages, candy, and processed foods.

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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?

Joanne Sunshower 10/24/2019 8:24 AM

Raised my awareness, kept me on track with my goals for changing behavior for personal habits as well as increasing my research, conversations, other outreach, Thank you!

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Joanne Sunshower 10/22/2019 5:44 AM

I joined the challenge with our team for a learning experience: 1) as a mechanism to adopt or reinforce earth-friendly habits --supposedly 3 weeks is minimum needed for a new habit to "take"; 2) to to be able to speak from my own experienceabout the time & effort it requires, in order to encourage others to try it.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Waste Use a Reusable Water Bottle

While water bottles are needed for health and safety in certain places, we can do more to reduce the unnecessary use of them. What are the barriers to you using reusable bottles and tap water instead of bottled water? How could you make this a permanent habit?

Joanne Sunshower 10/22/2019 5:37 AM

I tried metal water bottles, but 2 barriers--almost impossible to get really clean, even w a bottle brush, and some so wide they don't fit in the cup holder of my car.So I now use a plastic forner ice cream jar w screw-on cap--straight insides so no place for mold or slime to hide & grow.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Simplicity Needs Vs. Wants

How is creativity necessary for practicing simplicity?

Joanne Sunshower 10/21/2019 3:28 AM

Creativity is necessary for practicing simplicity--because it takes original thinking & having stimulating conversations to determine alternative choices, re-orient your life, gatter the information, tools, and reinforce motivation w self-reminders in order to make new habits. Fortunately, our brains are capable of SELF-DIRECTED NEUROPLASTICITY not just when we're young, but THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES!

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Joanne Sunshower 10/21/2019 3:22 AM

Here's a learning: Too many commitments today, and not good planning, so ended up eating what was available (cookies) -refined sugar at a meeting:(

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Joanne Sunshower 10/13/2019 9:08 AM

Easy to share Good News about successful actions being taken, inventive progress being made every day with family, friends, political & spiritual colleagues in person, by emil & social media. Daily research online of scientific & progressive journals lifts my own hopeful spirits, scrapes doom-oriented crud off my energetic spark plugs.

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Joanne Sunshower 10/12/2019 10:17 AM

Chose for my challenges actions that I either have been trying but not consistently, or have been contemplating. Most difficult of refined sugar are: ice cream, chocolate (isn't that a legitimate food group?) vitamin C /cough drops. Ice cream first to go, since cold weather helps me not desire it.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Locally-Sourced Meals

If you were to only eat what is in season locally, what would be the hardest food item for you to give up?

Joanne Sunshower 10/12/2019 9:47 AM

Avocado Blueberries Grapefruit Winter Squash, because gues what--Greens like kale, spinach, sprouts can be grown in a greenhouse or even indoors w full spectrum lamp!

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