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Welcome to 2019 People's Ecochallenge!

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2019 People's Ecochallenge
October 2 - October 23, 2019
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Tyler Ron

ENGIE Impact

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 728 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    42
    whole food meals
    consumed
  • UP TO
    20
    minutes
    spent learning
  • UP TO
    270
    minutes
    spent exercising
  • UP TO
    561
    gallons of water
    have been saved
  • UP TO
    48
    miles
    traveled by bike
  • UP TO
    66
    zero-waste meals
    consumed
  • UP TO
    11
    pounds
    food waste prevented
  • UP TO
    66
    pounds of CO2
    have been saved
  • UP TO
    48
    miles
    not traveled by car

Tyler's actions

Transportation

Go by Bike

I will commute by bike 6 mile(s) each day and avoid sending up to 5.37 lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Community

Connect with a Nonprofit

I will connect with a local nonprofit, environmental or otherwise, and find out how I can get involved or become a member.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Whole Foods Diet

I will enjoy 2 meal(s) each day free of processed foods.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY 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.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

High Impact Action Track

Zero-Waste Cooking

Food

I will cook 3 meal(s) with zero-waste each day

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Health

Reduce refined sugar

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

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Health

Audit Toxic Cleaning Products in my Home

I will spend 20 minutes researching toxic chemicals found in cleaning supplies and personal care products and remove them from my home.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health

Exercise Daily

Exercise is a great stress blaster! I will exercise for 30 minute(s) each day.

COMPLETED -1
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health
    To what extent do you believe that environmental factors contribute to your own health or issues with health?
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    Tyler Ron 10/15/2019 6:20 AM
    Honestly, I'd never really considered it.  Especially since I've always lived a notoriously unhealthy lifestyle.  But now that I've started taking my health seriously and changing my lifestyle, I find that the effects of seemingly small factors can actually have a great impact.  And it seems to me that if you're going to drastically change everything about how you live to become healthier, changing something as mundane as cleaning products is a must.  Also, it's worth mentioning that environment factors, more than anything, have an extreme effect on mental health.  
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Transportation
    How do your transportation choices affect your engagement in your community? Does your experience differ while walking, riding transit, biking, or driving?
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    Tyler Ron 10/08/2019 1:24 PM
    Driving and riding transit both give me some amount of anxiety.  Walking is usually some degree of peaceful, but I find myself most at ease while biking.  I find that I connect with my environment a lot more when I bike, and I'm more connected to reality when I get to work and for the rest of the day. 
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food
    Michael Pollan states that “it is better to pay the grocer (our edit: or the farmer!) than the doctor.” What are your thoughts on this idea?
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    Tyler Ron 10/08/2019 1:22 PM
    I have a hard time correlating these ideas since I use the grocer and the doctor for such different purposes.  For example, I have no health issues related to food or exercise, however I struggle with a hip injury.  I can however relate to preventing future complications such as diabetes, which is part of the reason I've lost over 50lbs. 
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    High Impact Action Track
    In North America, up to 65% of food waste happens at the consumer level. Chef Steven Satterfield advocates for utilizing every part of a vegetable. How can you incorporate using an entire vegetable, including the skins, tops, and stalks during your next meal prep?
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    Tyler Ron 10/02/2019 10:02 AM
    The items I eat are entirely edible, no stems, stalks, etc... I tend to just eat skins (such as on cucumbers) rather than peeling them. 
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health
    How can you incorporate other personal values (like quality time with friends or spending time in nature) into your exercise routine?
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    Tyler Ron 10/02/2019 10:00 AM
    I mostly cycle, and I've found that cycling can be very therapeutic specifically because of the time spent in nature.
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health
    Before you started this challenge, did you think you were 'addicted' to sugar? How do you feel now?
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    Tyler Ron 10/02/2019 9:59 AM
    Actually, I don't consider myself to have been addicted to sugar, however I do feel that this challenge is helping me maintain a healthy diet free from sugar.  
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