Patrick Puckett
POINTS TOTAL
- 0 TODAY
- 0 THIS WEEK
- 83 TOTAL
participant impact
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UP TO14milestraveled by bus
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UP TO55pounds of CO2have been saved
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UP TO34milesnot traveled by car
Patrick's actions
Transportation
Use Public Transit
I will use public transit 14 mile(s) each day and avoid sending up to 3.1 lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.
Water
Say No to Plastic Straws
An estimated 71% of seabirds and 30% of turtles have been found with plastics in their stomachs. When they ingest plastic, marine life has a 50% mortality rate. By asking for no straw when placing a drink order, I will keep 2 plastic straw(s) of out of the ocean each day.
Transportation
Work from Home
I will work from home 3 day(s) to avoid my commute's carbon output.
Participant Feed
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REFLECTION QUESTIONTransportation Use Public TransitThe US spends roughly 20% of its federal budget on defense. In contrast, 2% goes to education, 20% goes to social security and 3% goes to transportation infrastructure. Do these numbers surprise you at all? Why or why not? How would you adjust them if you could?
Patrick Puckett 10/04/2019 8:28 AMI'm not surprised by it given the political climate, but we should be spending more money on education and transportation infrastructure. We could avoid a lot of the issues defense handles if we had a better-educated, globally-minded population.