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Welcome to Drawdown Ecochallenge!

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Aaron Pinto

Team AMD

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participant impact

  • UP TO
    11
    lightbulbs
    replaced
  • UP TO
    20
    minutes
    spent learning

Aaron's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Attend "Menu for the Future" discussion

Join fellow AMDers for an informal discussion around how our food choices impact the environment and the overall food supply chain while also considering the emotional and cultural connections that make changing negative behaviors difficult.

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Transportation

Watch Q&A with Ride the Divide Returns creator Mike Dion

Streaming links for an epic bike-packing documentary "Ride The Divide Returns" and an interview with the producer/participant will be available. Be inspired by the environment and human spirit as participants traverse a 2700 mile journey across the Rocky Mountains from Banff to the Mexico Border.

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Transportation

Watch Q&A with Ride the Divide Returns creator Mike Dion

Streaming links for an epic bike-packing documentary "Ride The Divide Returns" and an interview with the producer/participant will be available. Be inspired by the environment and human spirit as participants traverse a 2700 mile journey across the Rocky Mountains from Banff to the Mexico Border.

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Electricity

Learn about the energy efficiency of AMD's products

Join Justin Murrill, Go Green Executive Sponsor and Director of Corporate Responsibility, and Sam Naffziger SVP, and Corporate Fellow to learn about our approach to increasing the computing performance delivered per watt of energy consumed. And, learn how we are progressing to our goal to increase by 30x energy efficiency for AMD processors and accelerates powering servers for AI-training and high-performance computing by 2025.

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Electricity

Rooftop Solar Consultation

Distributed Solar Photovoltaics

After researching the incentives at the federal, state, utility, and local levels, I will contact a local installer/distributor for a solar panel installation consultation on my house.

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Electricity

Choose LED Bulbs

LED Lighting

I will replace 5 incandescent lightbulbs with Energy Star-certified LED bulbs, saving up to $14 per fixture per year.

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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Composting

Composting, Reduced Food Waste

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

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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Smaller Portions

Reduced Food Waste

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

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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Zero-Waste Cooking

Reduced Food Waste

I will cook 1 meals with zero-waste each day.

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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

Reduced Food Waste

I will spend at least 15 minutes learning how to differentiate between sell by, use by, and best by dates.

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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Support Local Food Systems

Plant-Rich Diets

I will source 10 percent of my food from local producers each day. This could include signing up for a local CSA, buying from a farmer's market, visiting a food co-op, foraging with a local group, or growing my own ingredients.

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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Cook With Sustainable Seafood

Improved Fisheries

Using the Seafood Watch guide, I will feature a sustainable seafood ingredient in a new recipe.

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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 Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates
    How does knowing the difference between use by, sell by, and best by dates empower you to make better decisions?
    Aaron Pinto's avatar
    Aaron Pinto 10/02/2024 9:01 AM
    Knowing that they're not safety dates is really useful for keeping products even after they've passed that date.
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Composting
    Producing food that goes uneaten squanders many resources—seeds, water, energy, land, fertilizer, hours of labor, financial capital. Which of these kinds of waste most motivates you to change your behavior regarding food waste? Why?
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    Aaron Pinto 10/02/2024 8:54 AM
    I would say financial capital and water, because I prefer to get the most value for my money, and my parents have always told me to not waste water, so I try not to.
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Smaller Portions
    While dishing food out, we tend to load our plates with more than we need. Using smaller plates helps to mitigate this. Aside from the environmental benefits, what other benefits might come from eating/serving smaller portions?
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    Aaron Pinto 10/02/2024 8:32 AM
    Weight loss, and if you eat less food, you'll need to buy less food so you save money as well.
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Electricity Choose LED Bulbs
    Changing lightbulbs is an excellent first step toward energy efficiency! What's next for you?
    Aaron Pinto's avatar
    Aaron Pinto 10/02/2024 8:30 AM
    I already have energy efficient appliances, so next will be getting an electric car
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