Create more environmental + social good. Join the People's Ecochallenge!

2019 People's Ecochallenge

October 2 - October 23, 2019

Lutherans Restoring Creation - Central States Feed

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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?

Joanne Sunshower 10/24/2019 8:24 AM

Raised my awareness, kept me on track with my goals for changing behavior for personal habits as well as increasing my research, conversations, other outreach, Thank you!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation Go by Bike

How do your transportation choices affect your engagement in your community? Does your experience differ while walking, riding transit, biking, or driving?

Melissa Woeppel 10/23/2019 11:55 AM

I definitely pay more attention to my surroundings when I am biking. I am notice more about who is around me and the state of the environment. I also found that it really isn't that much faster for to drive vs. biking to work.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Health Exercise Daily

How can you incorporate other personal values (like quality time with friends or spending time in nature) into your exercise routine?

Melissa Woeppel 10/23/2019 11:53 AM

I have found that walking is a good time to make phone calls and stay in touch with loved ones who I don't get to see often.

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Joanne Sunshower 10/22/2019 5:44 AM

I joined the challenge with our team for a learning experience: 1) as a mechanism to adopt or reinforce earth-friendly habits --supposedly 3 weeks is minimum needed for a new habit to "take"; 2) to to be able to speak from my own experienceabout the time & effort it requires, in order to encourage others to try it.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Waste Use a Reusable Water Bottle

While water bottles are needed for health and safety in certain places, we can do more to reduce the unnecessary use of them. What are the barriers to you using reusable bottles and tap water instead of bottled water? How could you make this a permanent habit?

Joanne Sunshower 10/22/2019 5:37 AM

I tried metal water bottles, but 2 barriers--almost impossible to get really clean, even w a bottle brush, and some so wide they don't fit in the cup holder of my car.So I now use a plastic forner ice cream jar w screw-on cap--straight insides so no place for mold or slime to hide & grow.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Simplicity Needs Vs. Wants

How is creativity necessary for practicing simplicity?

Joanne Sunshower 10/21/2019 3:28 AM

Creativity is necessary for practicing simplicity--because it takes original thinking & having stimulating conversations to determine alternative choices, re-orient your life, gatter the information, tools, and reinforce motivation w self-reminders in order to make new habits. Fortunately, our brains are capable of SELF-DIRECTED NEUROPLASTICITY not just when we're young, but THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES!

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Joanne Sunshower 10/21/2019 3:22 AM

Here's a learning: Too many commitments today, and not good planning, so ended up eating what was available (cookies) -refined sugar at a meeting:(

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REFLECTION QUESTION
High Impact Action Track Learn About Local Environmental Justice Concerns

Who is most affected by environmental degration and/or environmental irresponsiblity in your community? How are they affected?

Cindy Gross 10/13/2019 5:05 PM

Unfortunately, in my community, environmental degradation disproportionately endangers public health for people of color and low-income individuals. They have higher exposures to lead poisoning and mold, higher rates of asthma, exposure to air pollution and toxics associated with demolition of vacant properties and illegal trash dumping.

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Joanne Sunshower 10/13/2019 9:08 AM

Easy to share Good News about successful actions being taken, inventive progress being made every day with family, friends, political & spiritual colleagues in person, by emil & social media. Daily research online of scientific & progressive journals lifts my own hopeful spirits, scrapes doom-oriented crud off my energetic spark plugs.

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Joanne Sunshower 10/12/2019 10:17 AM

Chose for my challenges actions that I either have been trying but not consistently, or have been contemplating. Most difficult of refined sugar are: ice cream, chocolate (isn't that a legitimate food group?) vitamin C /cough drops. Ice cream first to go, since cold weather helps me not desire it.

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