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Welcome to Drawdown Ecochallenge!

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Niomi Lenhart (901)

YCP Fall 2024

POINTS TOTAL

  • 35 TODAY
  • 70 THIS WEEK
  • 171 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    35
    miles
    not traveled by car
  • UP TO
    35
    miles
    traveled by carpool
  • UP TO
    36
    pounds of CO2
    have been saved
  • UP TO
    3.3
    pounds of paper
    have been saved
  • UP TO
    2.0
    advocacy actions
    completed
  • UP TO
    2.0
    conversations
    with people

Niomi's actions

Industry

Choose Recycled Paper

Recycled Paper

I will plan ahead to use paper products only made from post-consumer recycled paper for my home or office.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Industry

Go Paperless

Recycled Paper

I will reduce the amount of paper mail that I receive by 0.11lbs (0.05kg) a day or 3.3lbs (1.6kg) a month by opting into paperless billing, ending unwanted subscriptions, and opting out of junk mail.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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 3
DAILY ACTIONS

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Talk With a Local Grocer

Improved Fisheries

I will ask my local seafood market or grocery store if their seafood is sustainable and share the Seafood Watch resources so they can stock sustainable options.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Transportation

Try Carpooling

Carpooling

I will commute by carpool 10 miles per day and avoid sending up to (___) lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

COMPLETED 3
DAILY ACTIONS

Industry

Plastics Audit

Reduced Plastics

I will complete a plastics audit to see where plastics show up in my life and determine how I can reduce the use of single-use plastics.

COMPLETED 3
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
    Industry Choose Recycled Paper
    Good job on choosing recycled paper! How can you take your action a step further?
    Niomi Lenhart (901)'s avatar
    Niomi Lenhart (901) 10/07/2024 9:41 AM
    by letting other people know that using recycled paper can benefit the earth
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Talk With a Local Grocer
    What did you learn from your local grocer and what did you share with them?
    Niomi Lenhart (901)'s avatar
    Niomi Lenhart (901) 10/07/2024 9:40 AM
    I talked with a local farmer, i learned that being a farmer is a full time job
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Transportation Try Carpooling
    List some of the places you frequent often (work, grocery store, natural areas). Could you choose one or two days a week to schedule driving with a friend, neighbor or co-worker to these places?
    Niomi Lenhart (901)'s avatar
    Niomi Lenhart (901) 10/07/2024 9:40 AM
    school, shopping, and work
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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?
    Niomi Lenhart (901)'s avatar
    Niomi Lenhart (901) 10/07/2024 9:39 AM
    to reuse, for example, bags when going to a store

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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Industry Plastics Audit
    What was the hardest item to reduce using or cut out that is plastic? Did you find a way to do it?
    Niomi Lenhart (901)'s avatar
    Niomi Lenhart (901) 10/07/2024 9:39 AM
    plastic water bottels, i cut them out by using a reusable water bottle
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