Love Jonson
POINTS TOTAL
- 0 TODAY
- 0 THIS WEEK
- 373 TOTAL
participant impact
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UP TO300minutesnot spent in front of a screen
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UP TO10minutesspent learning
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UP TO120minutesspent outdoors
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UP TO1,399pounds of CO2have 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)
Nature
Explore My Area
I will explore at least one new hiking trail or nature walk in my area.
Nature
Forage for My Food
I will use the 'Learn More' resources below to find where I can forage for my own food locally.
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.
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.
Transportation
Choose a Carbon Offset
If buying a plane ticket, I will also buy a carbon offset.
Simplicity
Research Impact Investing
Using the links provided below, I will research impact investing and determine if it is right for me.
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.
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.
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.
Food
Plant an Herb Garden
I will plant an herb garden in my home, workplace, or dorm room.
Food
Try a New Way to Prep
I will try a new method of food preparation, such as canning, pickling, or baking bread.
Simplicity
Less Screen Time
I will replace 20 minute(s) of screen time each day with other activities.
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.
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?
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REFLECTION QUESTIONSimplicity Limit Social MediaSocial 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?
Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:11 AMI 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 QUESTIONTransportation Choose a Carbon OffsetA 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?
Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:10 AMI 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 QUESTIONNature Forage for My FoodPeople 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?
Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:08 AMI 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 QUESTIONSimplicity Less Screen TimeWhat 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?
Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:07 AMIt'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 QUESTIONNature Explore My AreaHow can spending more time outdoors enhance your sense of place?
Love Jonson 10/16/2019 10:05 AMCoNnEcTiOn! 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.