Ben Hosley
POINTS TOTAL
- 0 TODAY
- 0 THIS WEEK
- 145 TOTAL
participant impact
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UP TO1.0community eventhosted or attended
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UP TO6.0conversationswith people
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UP TO420minutesspent outdoors
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UP TO420minutesnot spent in front of a screen
Ben's actions
Fresh Water
Conserve Toilet Water
I will save up to 12 gallons (45 L) of water a day by flushing only when necessary.
People
Join a Cleanup Effort
I will host or participate in a beach, highway, river, or other cleanup effort in my community that follows the CDC’s current guidelines for prevention of disease transfer.
Climate
Calculate Personal Carbon Footprint
Complete your personal carbon footprint calculator. Go to www.wsppact.com and answer the questions for each section. The process takes about 10 minutes. Details about your utility bills and travel will be required. Please be as accurate as you can, but it’s not required to search for receipts.
Food
Vedge Pledge and Webinar
I challenge you to go veg for a week. Sign up and I will provide you with daily updates during the week of the challenge (April 20th to 25th - send me an email that you want to join at julie.sinistore@wsp.com) We will have a webinar on Wednesday, April 22nd (Earth Day) at 9am Pacific/noon Eastern about the environmental impacts of food. Join the webinar and/or take the pledge :)
Wildlife
Research a Wild Animal
I will spend at least 30 minutes learning about a wild animal I find interesting, including their life cycle, habitat, ecosystem functions, and interactions with humans (if any!).
Action Track: Building Resilience
Spend Time Outside
I will replace 60 minute(s) each day typically spent inside (computer time, watching television, etc.) with quality time outside that follows CDC guidelines for preventing disease spread.
Action Track: Building Resilience
Connect While Social Distancing
I will connect with at least 1 person/people a day through phone call or video chat to support mine and other’s mental and emotional health during this challenging time.
Action Track: Building Resilience
Research Benefits of Biodiversity
I will spend at least 30 minutes researching how biodiversity positively impacts our world and how the loss of biodiversity harms it.
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?
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Ben Hosley 4/08/2020 12:06 PM -
Ben Hosley 4/08/2020 11:07 AMI used wsp's carbon footprint calculator (http://www.wsppactcalculator.com/ ) to determine my footprint today. The largest portion of my footprint comes from my energy usage, not surprisingly.
Thankfully my electric supplier (PGE) has an option to choose your energy source so we've been able to pay a little extra to get electric from wind power (great Idea to reach out to your provider and see if this is an option for you). -
Ben Hosley 4/02/2020 5:14 PMFor those interested in a sustainable grocery delivery option (especially as a means to socially distance); I recently found one called imperfect foods that takes rejected produce and resells at a discount (often due to surplus or visual imperfections). I signed up and will be trying it out the next few weeks. Website: https://www.imperfectfoods.com/-
Melanie Lulue 4/03/2020 8:05 AMHi Ben, this is awesome. We do waste too much food and what a great way to sell foods that grocery stores won't sell (or can't). I checked the areas and unfortunately Florida isn't in their delivery range according to their map. That may be because we have a food bank here that supports 6 counties in central Florida that receives similar items as donations. Keep looking for ways to help Mother Earth (and social distancing) and post them for all of us to see and share. Keep Well!
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