Marc Garcia

Community Team

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participant impact

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1.0

carbon footprint

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60

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30

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Marc's actions

Coastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks

Visit the Coast

Macroalgae Protection and Restoration

I will visit a coastal or ocean site to experience the ecosystem and look for the presence of macroalgae/seaweed.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Composting

Composting, Reduced Food Waste

I will start a compost or worm bin where I live.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Transportation

Use Muscle Power

Multiple Transportation Solutions

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 23
DAILY ACTIONS

Industry

Practice the 5 Rs

Recycling

I will practice the "5 Rs" — refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, and recycle — to reduce my waste more than I can with just recycling alone.

COMPLETED 2
DAILY ACTIONS

Electricity

Calculate My Household Carbon Footprint

I will calculate the carbon emissions associated with my household and consider how different lifestyle choices could reduce our carbon footprint and our impact on the environment.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Coastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks

Research Bottom-Trawling Seafloor Impacts

Seafloor Protection

Each day, I will spend at least 15 minutes learning more about how bottom-trawling impacts on the seafloor.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Buildings

Research Heat Pumps

High-Efficiency Heat Pumps

I will spend at least 15 minutes researching heat pumps to see if installing one makes sense for my home/building.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health and Education

Watch Drawdown's Climate Solutions 101 Series

Family Planning and Education

I will watch Drawdown’s Climate Solutions 101 and share what I learned with others.

UNCOMPLETED
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
Coastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks Visit the Coast

What coastal site did you visit and what did you learn while there?

Marc Garcia 3/22/2024 6:18 PM

I visited the coastline of Point Pinos and saw tide pools along the coastline and all the critters that lived there. The main thing I learned was how even rocks along the coastline provide an important shelter for animals to live at.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation Use Muscle Power

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

Marc Garcia 3/07/2024 12:18 PM

I engage with my community more when I can walk or take public transit to the places I want to go. For example, when I lived in Seattle, I would take the bus and light rail to all the places in the city because it was a lot easier to use those resources than driving your car into the city and paying crazy amounts of money for parking and gas.

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- Suzanne Worcester 3/20/2024 5:12 PM
  
  I totally agree. Prior to COVID, I had a whole set of "bus friends" who I get together with every so often now. So many opportunities for community when we get out of our cars (or carpool!) and ride or walk with others one way or another.
  
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REFLECTION QUESTION
Industry Practice the 5 Rs

What are some more "Rs" you could add to your daily practice to reduce your waste?

Marc Garcia 3/05/2024 12:28 PM

An "R" I need to add to my daily practice is "Reduce" because sometimes I get caught up in the trends and impulsively buy stuff instead of thinking if I really need the item I am buying.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Electricity Calculate My Household Carbon Footprint

After you determined your carbon footprint, did you see what different choices you can make in order to reduce it?

Marc Garcia 2/29/2024 1:11 PM

The different choices I saw it reduce my carbon footprint were reducing the amount of meat in my diet, switching to an electric or hybrid car, using renewable energy, and walking more often.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Buildings Research Heat Pumps

Why is taking action on climate change important to you? Why do you care?

Marc Garcia 2/29/2024 1:01 PM

Taking action on climate change is important to me because some of my family live in Tampa, Florida which is a place that was hit by many hurricanes last year and will continue to be affected by the extreme natural disasters caused by climate change.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Coastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks Research Bottom-Trawling Seafloor Impacts

Why is protecting the seafloor important?

Marc Garcia 2/29/2024 12:43 PM

When bottom trawling for fish, the nets that drag along the ocean floor destroy the animals and plants since they move the sediment they live in. This also alters the seafloor of a continental shelf from soft sediment to bare rock which can eliminate the animals that once lived in the sediment. This also puts into question the future stability of continental shelves which is the source of many types of fish that we eat every day. So we need to start using more sustainable fishing practices to ensure the fish populations and seafloors will continue to thrive.

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