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Welcome to Earth Day Ecochallenge!

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Earth Day Ecochallenge
April 1 - April 30, 2020
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Anne Morse

In This Together

"We're all in this together"

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 468 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    53
    conversations
    with people
  • UP TO
    22
    miles
    not traveled by car
  • UP TO
    22
    miles
    traveled by foot
  • UP TO
    5.0
    minutes
    spent learning
  • UP TO
    750
    minutes
    spent outdoors
  • UP TO
    750
    minutes
    not spent in front of a screen
  • UP TO
    15
    pounds
    waste composted
  • UP TO
    12
    pounds of CO2
    have been saved

Anne's actions

Action Track: Building Resilience

Spend Time Outside

I will replace 30 minute(s) each day typically spent inside (computer time, watching television, etc.) with quality time outside that follows CDC guidelines for preventing disease spread.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Action Track: Building Resilience

Use Muscle Power

I will cut my car trip mileage by only taking necessary trips, and I will only use muscle-powered transportation for all other trips.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Action Track: Building Resilience

Connect While Social Distancing

I will connect with at least 2 person/people a day through phone call or video chat to support mine and other’s mental and emotional health during this challenging time.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

I will spend at least 5 minutes learning how to differentiate between sell by, use by, and best by dates.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Compost Food Waste

I will avoid sending up to .69 lbs (.31 kg) of food waste to the landfill each day by composting my food or learning how to.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

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?

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Action Track: Building Resilience Connect While Social Distancing
    How does connecting with others help your own mental and emotional health? How can it help support others?
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    Anne Morse 4/12/2020 2:37 PM
    Connecting with others during this time is super important as I am pregnant and due in a few weeks. This would normally be a time that I would be relying on friends and family for support and hopefully enrolling my three year old in preschool to help alleviate the stress of having a new baby. Now that is all up in the air, I feel the need to connect any way that I can
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food Compost Food Waste
    New to composting? Be sure to check out the action resource links to learn tips and more about it. As you transition from throwing food away to composting, what do you notice about how much you are tossing? How will you use your compost once it is ready?
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    Anne Morse 4/12/2020 2:33 PM
    We have always been active composters, but once our compost bin broke, it took a good couple months for me of throwing my food in the garbage, to go ahead and buy a new bin so that we can start up again. I know this was a fairly easy thing for me to do, and I feel good now that we are starting up again. We have two active composts-- one for food waste that is entirely contained to keep out the rats and another for yard waste that is open. 
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