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October 2 - October 23, 2019
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POINTS TOTAL

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  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 373 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    300
    minutes
    not spent in front of a screen
  • UP TO
    10
    minutes
    spent learning
  • UP TO
    120
    minutes
    spent outdoors
  • UP TO
    1,399
    pounds of CO2
    have been saved

Love's actions

Simplicity

Limit Social Media

I will limit my social media use to once each day reducing my daily use by 20 minute(s)

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Nature

Explore My Area

I will explore at least one new hiking trail or nature walk in my area.

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Nature

Forage for My Food

I will use the 'Learn More' resources below to find where I can forage for my own food locally.

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Community

Support Businesses Owned by People of Color

Racial inequity is both a sustainability and justice problem. I will support businesses owned by people of color in my community whenever I shop.

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Community

Support Native Communities

I will use the resource links provided and spend 15 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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Transportation

Choose a Carbon Offset

If buying a plane ticket, I will also buy a carbon offset.

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Simplicity

Research Impact Investing

Using the links provided below, I will research impact investing and determine if it is right for me.

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Energy

Online Energy Audit

I will complete an online energy audit of my home, office, or dorm room and identify my next steps for saving energy.

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Energy

Power Down the Computer

I will power down my computer and monitor when not using it for more than 2 hours, saving up to (1.1) lbs of CO2 each day that I do this.

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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.

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Food

Plant an Herb Garden

I will plant an herb garden in my home, workplace, or dorm room.

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Food

Try a New Way to Prep

I will try a new method of food preparation, such as canning, pickling, or baking bread.

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Simplicity

Less Screen Time

I will replace 20 minute(s) of screen time each day with other activities.

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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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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
    Simplicity Limit Social Media
    Social media can keep us connected with loved ones, make us laugh, and help us to learn new things. It can also take more time than we realize or intend to give. After doing this action for a few days, how do you feel? What do you notice?

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    Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:11 AM
    I installed the Moment app just two days ago and can't wait to see the results! If anything, it will at least make me more conscious each time I pick up my phone. I also, ridiculously, just now added a password to my phone, so that will provide another barrier. 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Transportation Choose a Carbon Offset
    A round-trip flight from New York City to Los Angeles emits just over 1.5 tons of CO2—per person. That’s a lot of carbon! What can you do to reduce the number of flights you take per year?

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    Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:10 AM
    I try to minimize it but sometimes my parents really want to see me! I hadn't actually been back to Virginia in about 2 and a third years until this past weekend, in large part because of my #flygskam. I will say my carbon offset, just $15.34 for a round trip from PDX to Richmond, Virginia, seems wildly underpriced, and I'd like to know more about how they are priced.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Nature Forage for My Food
    People are motivated to forage for many different reasons: as a source for food, a means of income, to connect with nature, to participate in cultural tradition, transmitting specific ecological knowledge, or as a means of stewarding local and native plant populations. What is your chief motivation for foraging?

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    Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:08 AM
    I truly cherish the connection with place that food, foraged or grown, provides. I aspire to go mushroom hunting sometime soon but I still haven't checked off my list after ~3.5 years of living in Oregon!
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Simplicity Less Screen Time
    What did you notice in implementing this challenge? Was it hard to choose other activities over screen time? How did you decide to spend your time?

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    Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:07 AM
    It's not that it's hard to choose other activities over screen time---certainly we all have hobbies or interests we'd like to spend more time exploring. It's more of a challenge to get out of the mindless habit of screen time in the interstices between other activities. I am reading more, particularly before bed, because I have sleep issues and I know the screen stimulation doesn't help. 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Nature Explore My Area
    How can spending more time outdoors enhance your sense of place?

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    Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:05 AM
    CoNnEcTiOn! Part of the reason I got into sustainability and planning was because, as a runner, I got to enjoy places, both urban and natural, around my college in Virginia near the Shenandoah Valley that my peers did not. My favorite part of the town was the 21-mile trail loop that encircled it. I happened to always live within a mile of a trailhead and would run on it most days. This past weekend I went to my hometown about an hour away for the first time in over 2 years and hiked a newly completed trail on the north bank of the James River with a dear friend.