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2019 People's Ecochallenge

October 2 - October 23, 2019

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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?

Elisa Garcia 10/24/2019 1:22 AM

My participation in the Ecochallenge has been extremely positive for me, but also for a lot of people around me (family, colleagues, friends) as I've transmited my learnings to them. I've learnt about plastics and how to reduce waste (using a cup now for my daily orange juice at the office), I've learnt new recipes without meat, my children are now taking vegetarian sandwiches to school and we have reduced significantly the meat consumption. I've also changed other buying habits, reusing bags and packaging to avoid increasing my waste. I have started to use an App to check how healthy the products in supermarkets are.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Simplicity Work-Life Balance

How might practicing work-life balance lead to a more sustainable life for yourself? How might it contribute to sustainability more broadly?

Elisa Garcia 10/24/2019 1:06 AM

If I become more effective and efficient in my work, keeping in mind that I need to respect the time to leave the office, instead of allowing myself to stay longer, I save energy (e.g: electricity), have a longer time to be with my children and disconnect and can go to bed earlier. It has a positive impact on my children as well, as they can also go to bed earlier.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Simplicity De-Clutter My Home

How can you prevent yourself from accumulating more things in the future?

Elisa Garcia 10/24/2019 1:03 AM

I'm now much, much more conscious on the need to stop buying things that you don't really need or will use a lot. Specially clothes and shoes is something that I had already reduced a lot, but now I'm thinking twice about my real needs, before I buy anything new. I'm also sharing this with my children, so that they're conscious too.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
High Impact Action Track Talk To My Friends and Colleagues

What makes you feel connected to your neighborhood, your neighbors, or another kind of community in your life?

Elisa Garcia 10/24/2019 1:01 AM

Since I'm living in the same area since 18 years, I know well a lot of people who work in the shops around or who have their own businesses. This has a very positive impact in our lives, as we care for each other and try to make our lives easier/better, by sharing experiences and best practices.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Health Healthy Sleep

Consider how many hours of sleep you get now. How would you like to shift your sleep patterns? What are you finding works for you to be successful in this action?

Elisa Garcia 10/24/2019 12:58 AM

I sleep around 6.5 hours during the working days and around 9 to 10 during the weekends. Since I started the Ecochallenge, I'm sleeping a bit more than 7 hours during the working days and this is having a significant positive impact on my well-being. The key is to have dinner earlier, so that there's still some time left to relax afterwards and then go to sleep also earlier.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Reduce Animal Products

Why do people in richer countries eat more meat than people in other places? How does eating more meat affect our planet and other people?

Elisa Garcia 10/24/2019 12:55 AM

As richer countries have access to more expensive products and a higher variety of products, they consume much more meat than people in poorer countries.
The most negative impact on the planet comes from cows, due to the very high CO2 emission, the high consumption of water and the deforestation to have big enough spaces to raise them.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Energy Power Down the Computer

What are other easy things you could do to save energy and reduce your environmental footprint?

Helga Martínez Oroza 10/24/2019 12:07 AM

I bought smart sockets and I programed them to switch on/off when is only required.

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Dimitar Dimitrov 10/23/2019 2:31 AM

One day to go! We are doing great! Keep it up!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Health Know My health

How do you deal with the physical and emotional stress of the big problems we face? How can you help others cope?

José Díaz Carretero 10/23/2019 1:14 AM

I recommend to practice regularly mindfulness, as I do

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Waste Personal Waste Audit

Why is it so difficult to understand the impacts our purchases and waste have on other people, animals, and places? How might your experience with this challenge impact your future consumption and choices?

José Díaz Carretero 10/23/2019 1:12 AM

I'll try to buy in local store using paper boxes

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