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Drawdown Ecochallenge 2025

Sadie Hudson

Asheville High School/SILSA

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
586 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

3.0

meatless or vegan meals

consumed
UP TO

59

miles

traveled by carpool
UP TO

7.0

miles

traveled by bus
UP TO

66

miles

not traveled by car
UP TO

43

pounds of CO2

have been saved
UP TO

35

minutes

being mindful
UP TO

3.0

plastic containers

not sent to the landfill
UP TO

436

minutes

spent learning

Sadie's actions

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UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Transportation

Try Carpooling

Carpooling

I will commute by carpool 12 miles per day and avoid sending up to (___) lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

COMPLETED 4
DAILY ACTIONS

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

Reduced Food Waste

I will spend at least 38 minutes learning how to differentiate between sell by, use by, and best by dates.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Land Sinks

Learn More about Silvopasture

Silvopasture

I will spend at least 10 minutes watching videos and/or reading about the environmental benefits of silvopasture.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Land Sinks

Forest-Friendly Foods 1

Tropical Forest Restoration

I will spend at least 70 minutes researching the impact of my diet to see how it contributes to deforestation.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Buildings

Learn about 'Green Gentrification'

Multiple Solutions

I will spend at least 60 minutes learning about green gentrification and how it relates to city planning for climate action.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health and Education

Research Barriers to Participation and Representation

Family Planning and Education

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning more about the barriers to women's equal participation and representation around the world.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health and Education

Learn about the Need for Family Planning

Family Planning and Education

I will spend at least 50 minutes learning more about the need for family planning globally.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Industry

Research the Climate Impact of Refrigerants

Refrigerant Management

I will spend 30 minutes learning about the climate impact of refrigerants and what climate-friendly refrigerants are by using the links below.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Industry

Learn about Carbon Offsets

I will spend 30 minutes learning about carbon offsets, and why they are a necessary solution in combating a climate crisis.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Land Sinks

Research Peatlands

Peatland Protection and Rewetting

I will spend 20 minutes researching the environmental benefits of peatlands and what is being done around the world to conserve and restore them.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Eat Mindfully

Reduced Food Waste

I will eat all of my meals without distractions, e.g., phone, computer, TV, or newspaper.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Reduce Animal Products

Plant-Rich Diets

I will enjoy 3 meatless or vegan meals each day of the challenge.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Electricity

Learn More about Micro Wind

Micro Wind Turbines

I will spend at least 20 minutes learning more about the energy generation potential of micro wind.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Transportation

Use Public Transit

Public Transit

I will use public transit 7 miles per day and avoid sending up to (___) lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Industry

Reduce Single-Use Disposables

Bioplastics; Reduced Plastics

I will avoid buying and using 3 single-use plastics and instead replace them with durable options.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY 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
Electricity

Micro turbines can be placed on large structures to take advantage of stronger, steadier breezes. The Eiffel Tower now sports vertical axis turbines that produce electricity for use on site. Where could micro turbines potentially be installed in your city?
Sadie Hudson 4/21/2025 8:34 AM
In my city their aren't very many tall building. if I were to put it somewhere it would be in down town because it uses a lot of energy and that is where the biggest and tallest buildings are located.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Industry

What single-use items (e.g. straws, coffee cups, vegetable bags, plastic bags) do you regularly use? What could be substituted instead?
Sadie Hudson 4/21/2025 8:30 AM
I use a lot of grocery bags that the store provides so I can start to bring in my own reusable bags. Even though one person doing this wont make a big change if many people did it could help.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Why do people in richer countries eat more meat than people in other places? How does eating more meat affect our bodies, our planet, and other people?
Sadie Hudson 4/21/2025 6:06 AM
This is because in richer countries people can afford a more diverse diet which includes meat. Unfortunately eating and consuming more meat can be bad for our bodies, because they are high in fat, and our planet because of the process that we use to produce high, efficient and affordable meats.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation

How has your access to various kinds of transportation throughout your life influenced your current attitudes about transportation and your transportation behavior?
Sadie Hudson 4/21/2025 5:56 AM
I think that since I grew up with one car for the first half of my life carpooling became a big part of it. That is something I still try to do even though we now have two cars.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Mindful eating is healthier for us than eating with distractions. How does your eating experience differ when practicing mindfulness?
Sadie Hudson 4/21/2025 5:34 AM
I noticed I took more time to finish my food and somehow it tasted better. I liked it more because I was savoring and enjoying what I was eating.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Land Sinks

Much of Indonesia's peatlands have been drained so they could be replaced with palm oil or pulp and paper plantations. How can you make choices that help to protect peatlands, even if you live far away from one?
Sadie Hudson 4/18/2025 8:37 PM
Choices that I can make is to look into the products that I am buying and see which ones are taking resources from peatlands. Based on that I can make my purchasing decisions around that and try to buy the ones that are peatland friendly.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Industry

What are some attributes of an offset that you should consider before purchasing them?
Sadie Hudson 4/11/2025 6:07 AM
You need to consider additionality, verifiability and permanence. The Additionality makes sure that these offsets are additional to what would have happened anyway. This keeps it neutral meaning it would've happened without offset funding. The verifiability is making sure that the methods used to verify this are done by a respectable and trustable organization. The permanence is making sure that the reduction being made is permanent and not just temporary because then it wouldn't have a lasting effect.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Industry

What did you learn about the climate impact of refrigerants? How do supermarkets contribute to this impact?
Sadie Hudson 4/10/2025 5:21 PM
I learned how dangerous and bad refrigerants are. I learned that even though we are doing a better job of it they are still leaking into the atmosphere causing a break in the ozone layer. This contributes to global warming including the amount of supermarkets that impact this. Each market uses tons of refrigeration which is needed to keep the produce fresh and when they improperly dispose of them it makes the situation worse.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Health and Education

What did you learn about the need for family planning? How do the needs of different people in different places compare to each other?
Sadie Hudson 4/10/2025 6:54 AM
In different places and cultures the need for different people differ from place to place. Like in some cultures women are getting married and starting their life by the age of 15 which we are now trying to prevent. For example, America has a completely different lifestyle and culture compared to other parts of the world which means we require different jobs from people.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Buildings

Cities and towns need to plan for climate change. How can your city or town make its climate action plans equitable and socially just?
Sadie Hudson 4/08/2025 6:04 AM
Asheville can plan out where in the future they want to put future green areas.My mom is an architect and she always works on city infrastructure an I think it would be smart to look and try and predict what consequences would come from putting it in each area and put it in the place with the least amount of consequences.

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