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Emmett Winton

Asheville High School/SILSA

POINTS TOTAL

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participant impact

  • UP TO
    1.8
    locally sourced meals
    consumed
  • UP TO
    690
    minutes
    spent learning

Emmett's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Support Local Food Systems

Plant-Rich Diets

I will source 25 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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DAILY ACTION

Industry

Recycle Everything I Can

Recycling; Recycled Metals; Recycled Plastics

Contamination prevents what is recyclable from being recycled. I will research and recycle all materials that are accepted by local haulers or drop stations in my community, including electronics and metals.

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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

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

Reduced Food Waste

I will spend at least 24 minutes learning how to differentiate between sell by, use by, and best by dates.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Land Sinks

Learn More about Silvopasture

Silvopasture

I will spend at least 15 minutes watching videos and/or reading about the environmental benefits of silvopasture.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Health and Education

Learn about the Need for Family Planning

Family Planning and Education

I will spend at least 49 minutes learning more about the need for family planning globally.

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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.

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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
    Dependable fresh food, supporting local farmers and building resilient communities are just a few benefits of local food systems. Which of these (or other) advantages inspire you the most?

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    Emmett Winton 4/22/2025 5:54 PM
    supporting local farmers because i know some local farmers who are struggling money wise.
  • 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?

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    Emmett Winton 4/22/2025 4:50 PM
    offering like monetary value to it so people would get payed like small amounts of money for doing things that are environmentally helpful
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Industry
    What are some attributes of an offset that you should consider before purchasing them?

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    Emmett Winton 4/09/2025 8:04 AM
    Does the project truly reduce emissions that wouldn't have been reduced otherwise?. How long the emission reductions will last. If the emissions reductions can be accurately measured and verified. Weather or not the offset is certified by a reputable organization.
  • 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?

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    Emmett Winton 4/08/2025 7:59 AM
    1.-It's very important to make sure you are in a good financial state to take care of a family. You also need to make sure you are healthy and ready to have a child. It's also important not to have too many children because more people in your family means more resource consumption and climate impact. You also need to make sure all of your children can be educated and raised into functioning adults, this means living in an area that has access to schools or at least transportation to schools.
    2.-Here, like in America, there are more impoverished places where people can't afford groceries because there aren't job opportunities or other reasons. These people need stuff like healthcare, money, food, cars, sometimes even homes, but often can still send their kids to school and live in urbanized areas as well as have access to stuff like libraries and other public amenities like homeless shelters and stuff like that. In other places like Africa there are places that are very impoverished where there is often not access to schools or even access to transportation to places with schools to its very hard for people to learn how to do things they aren't raised around and these are the people that often get married off at young ages before they finish schooling if they even go, there are also more wealthy parts of Africa or people in the tribes with more status that are the ones getting married to the little girls. The impoverished people in Africa need stuff like water, food transportation, schools, and they also need healthcare and basic public amenities so it's harder to raise a family there.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health and Education
    What are some of the barriers that exist to women's equal participation and/or representation in your community?

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    Emmett Winton 4/07/2025 8:14 AM
    I guess they get payed less and are treated worse by sexist men.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Land Sinks
    How is your diet currently impacting deforestation? What can you do to decrease your negative impact and increase your positive impact?

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    Emmett Winton 4/03/2025 8:07 AM
    I eat a lot of meat and chocolate so I suppose that's bad

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      Emmett Winton 4/03/2025 8:10 AM
      I eat a lot of meat and chocolate so I suppose that's bad, I could eat less meat
  • 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?

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    Emmett Winton 4/01/2025 12:01 PM
    It empowers me to make better decisions by knowing that food doesn't go bad as quickly as you think it does and those are simply quality guidelines
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Industry
    How could you incorporate other "Rs" -- reduce, reuse, refuse, repair, repurpose, etc. -- into your lifestyle? How does considering implementing these "Rs" make you feel?

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    Emmett Winton 4/01/2025 11:57 AM
    I could just not buy things I have to throw away on first use
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
    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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    Emmett Winton 4/01/2025 11:55 AM
    you consume less calories and get less fat
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Transportation
    How do your transportation choices affect your engagement in your community? Does your experience or enjoyment differ while walking, riding transit, biking or driving?

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    Emmett Winton 4/01/2025 11:54 AM
    I rode the city bus hhhhhh

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      Emmett Winton 4/01/2025 12:12 PM
      I rode the bus most days after school with my friends and I talk to people on it.