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Welcome to 2019 People's Ecochallenge!

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2019 People's Ecochallenge
October 2 - October 23, 2019
Macy Carter's avatar

Macy Carter

JFK Awesome Possums

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 143 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    12
    plastic containers
    not sent to the landfill

Macy's actions

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

Waste

Reduce Single-Use Disposables

Historically, marginalized and low-income communities live closer to landfills, contributing to a multitude of health problems. I will find out how I can limit single-use items and do my best to limit the waste I generate.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Nature

Tend a Garden

I will tend to a garden each day, or work on starting one.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health
    How does/can practicing gratitude keep you centered and motivated to work for a better world?
    Macy Carter's avatar
    Macy Carter 10/22/2019 10:15 AM
    By stating what I was grateful for, I was able to realize how lucky I was, making myself happier throughout the day. It kept me from complaining because I knew how lucky I was for what I did have and how much worse off I could be.
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Waste
    Bringing your own bags and containers to the grocery store, and even to restaurants for leftovers, are a couple of ways to reduce your waste. What single-use items (e.g. straws, coffee cups, vegetable bags, plastic bags) do you regularly use? What could be substituted instead?
    Macy Carter's avatar
    Macy Carter 10/22/2019 10:03 AM
    Instead of using plastic bags at the grocery store, I kept reminding my mom to bring in the cloth bags wherever we went so that we could stop using so many plastic bags. The plastic straws, however, were very easy to eliminate since I don't use them on a regular basis anyway.
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    Macy Carter 10/17/2019 4:10 PM
    I'll reduce the single use disposables that I use.
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    • Madison Cole's avatar
      Madison Cole 10/17/2019 4:49 PM
      I think your idea to reduce the single use of disposables that you use is a great idea. You will save our landfills from becoming overcrowded which will help prevent global warming and pollution. If you get rid of a single use of disposables a day that is seven a week which ends up making a huge difference.
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