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Drawdown Ecochallenge 2025

Dylan Moran

Asheville High School/SILSA

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
881 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

57

meatless or vegan meals

consumed
UP TO

5.0

miles

not traveled by car
UP TO

5.0

miles

traveled by carpool
UP TO

2.8

pounds of CO2

have been saved
UP TO

375

minutes

spent exercising
UP TO

406

minutes

spent learning

Dylan's 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

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

Reduced Food Waste

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning how to differentiate between sell by, use by, and best by dates.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Smaller Portions

Reduced Food Waste

I will use smaller plates and/or serve smaller portions when dishing out food.

COMPLETED 48
DAILY ACTIONS

Transportation

Go for a Daily Walk

Walkable Cities

I will take a walk for 15 minutes each day and take note of the infrastructure that makes walking more or less enjoyable, accessible, and possible.

COMPLETED 46
DAILY ACTIONS

Land Sinks

Learn More about Silvopasture

Silvopasture

I will spend at least 18 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 30 minutes researching the impact of my diet to see how it contributes to deforestation.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Land Sinks

Research Peatlands

Peatland Protection and Rewetting

I will spend 30 minutes researching the environmental benefits of peatlands and what is being done around the world to conserve and restore them.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Buildings

Learn about 'Green Gentrification'

Multiple Solutions

I will spend at least 30 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 20 minutes learning more about the need for family planning globally.

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

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

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 19
DAILY ACTIONS

Transportation

Try Carpooling

Carpooling

I will commute by carpool 1 miles per day and avoid sending up to (___) lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

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

What are some more "Rs" you could add to your daily practice to reduce your waste?
Dylan Moran 4/21/2025 5:46 PM
Me and my family have always been pretty good at recycling and reusing/re purposing. We would make Halloween costumes at home and a bunch of other stuff. I could definitely continue being innovative with things I already have, as I have grown up I have also grown less accustomed to re purposing. I could definitely start doing that a lot more.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

How does knowing the difference between use by, sell by, and best by dates empower you to make better decisions?
Dylan Moran 4/21/2025 5:37 PM
Knowing the difference between these labels can empower you to make better decisions by giving you the opportunity to plan ahead for meals so that the food does not go to waste.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation

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?
Dylan Moran 4/19/2025 12:23 PM
I go to school, grocery store and hang out with friends. I could carpool with friends or my brother to any of these places.

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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?
Dylan Moran 4/19/2025 11:53 AM
People in richer countries eat more meat because meat is more expensive to produce and in richer countries there's more mass production of meat. Eating excessive meat isn't particularly healthy especially fast food meat, it affects our planet because its not a sustainable food source.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Industry

What did you learn about the climate impact of refrigerants? How do supermarkets contribute to this impact?
Dylan Moran 4/10/2025 2:56 PM
I learned how harmful the chemicals in refrigerants can be to people and the environment and how they even caused a hole to form in the stratosphere. Supermarkets contribute to this impact because they use a lot of refrigerators to keep their food cool.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Industry

What are some attributes of an offset that you should consider before purchasing them?
Dylan Moran 4/09/2025 12:00 PM
Something you should consider is what situation you are in. You need to think about how much you are able to spend on an offset and life expectancy of how long you can realistically keep up with offset.

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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?
Dylan Moran 4/08/2025 9:46 AM
I learned that family planning will help to reduce population growth as it provides contraceptives and birth control. We need family planning and to educate women on the topic because having access to this will reduce maternal death and miscarriages and lead to a better and secure life for both the mother and the baby.
The needs of different people from different places compare to each because people who are less wealthy and don't have a good education typically have more babies at a younger age while wealthy and educated people typically wait longer to have children and have less.

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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?
Dylan Moran 4/07/2025 9:55 AM
We can make climate action plans equitable and socially just by not upping the cost of living when fixing up a neighborhood to make it more environmentally friendly, so that people who live there don't get displaced.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Health and Education

What are some of the barriers that exist to women's equal participation and/or representation in your community?
Dylan Moran 4/07/2025 9:38 AM
Some barriers I see in my community are poverty and teen pregnancy. When teen girls get pregnant they usually drop out of school to take care of their baby and if they don't have support from family/friends it would be really hard to balance getting an education and taking care of a baby. And some people can't afford to go to school or continue to a higher education like college.

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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?
Dylan Moran 4/03/2025 9:45 AM
Something I can do to help protect peat lands is to stop buying products that have palm oil in them. I could also reduce my paper waste and recycle.

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