JULIAN FIORE

Bruins For the Future

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
156 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

10

plastic containers

not sent to the landfill
UP TO

2.0

public officials or leaders

contacted
UP TO

2.0

advocacy actions

completed
UP TO

180

minutes

spent outdoors
UP TO

30

minutes

spent learning

JULIAN's actions

Land Sinks

Explore My Area

Sometimes protecting nature requires feeling connected to nature. I will invest 120 minutes in exploring and appreciating a natural area in my region, whether a forest, wetland, coastal area, or somewhere else.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Land Sinks

Contact your Elected Officials

Abandoned Farmland Restoration

I will contact 2 elected officials to voice my opinion on the importance of restoring farmland in my region, including both public and private land.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Industry

Reduce Single-Use Disposables

Bioplastics; Reduced Plastics

I will avoid buying and using 5 single-use plastics and instead replace them with durable options.

COMPLETED 2
DAILY ACTIONS

Land Sinks

Choose Better Wood Products

Forest Protection

I will only purchase wood and paper products from ecologically certified sources like Forest Stewardship Council.

COMPLETED 2
DAILY ACTIONS

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Learn More about Regenerative Agriculture

Conservation Agriculture, Regenerative Annual Cropping

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning about the need for more regenerative agriculture.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Clean air, clean water and healthy food are just three reasons to care about regenerative agriculture. What are some other reasons? How could/does regenerative agriculture positively impact you and your community?
JULIAN FIORE 4/28/2025 11:35 PM
Regenerative agriculture is more than just clean air, clean water, and healthy food. For this ecochallenge, I challenged myself by reading an article a day on silvopasture agroforestry and regenerative agriculture. I mostly adhered to this challenge. As someone who never heard about agroforestry before this exploration, I believe silvopasture/agroforestry techniques truly should be a common practice. Silvopasture ensures significantly more financial stability for its farmers due to the wide variety of farm income sources. This benefits local farms and the local businesses that depend on them. It also creates a safe ecosystem environment where biodiversity and carbon sequestration can thrive. Changing to silvopasture techniques is a positive step towards equity and against climate change. Researching this method has really shown me that solutions to climate change do not need to be treated as luxury vs survival. There are many pathways to solving this climate crisis that do not involve serious sacrifice, and although silvopasture definitely has its flaws, if successfully implemented, it has been shown to be a positive force on the farm and the surrounding community.

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JULIAN FIORE 4/07/2025 10:52 AM
I am here because the reality of climate change has been largely ignored and dismissed by those in my life, especially my family members, and yet its effects worry me greatly for the future. I want to be a part of a movement that spreads awareness in a way that can convince those that dismiss the significance of climate change that it is a very real and present problem, without under-representing or over-representing the situation. I also want to help create a safer world for my own future, the future of my family, and the future of the overall world. Back in 9th grade biology, I was tasked with reading the book "Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet." I had never really heard about climate change before, and when I had heard about it, it was my family members saying things like "Don't worry about it- people will always find a way when it is needed." It wasn't until I read this book and was taken through the catastrophic potential at each degree of warming that I realized that now is the time when "finding a way" is needed. Yet at the same time, it feels like we have not found and committed to a route to fight back against climate change. It's very disheartening to see the societies around me refuse to take real action, and at many times it feels like fighting back is pointless. I am here so I can feel like it is not hopeless, and to be part of and observe a group that takes action and makes a difference.
The photo attached shows me playing outside, happily, as a young child. I included this photo because I am here so that this generation's children and grandchildren can have children of their own without fearing nature and without climate change making their lives much more dangerous and potentially agonizing. I want them to experience the outdoors how I did, and how generations have experienced it in the past.

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