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  • Reflection Question
    Action Track: Healing & Renewal Go for a Daily Walk
    What have you noticed on your daily walks? What have you enjoyed? What infrastructure changes could make your walks more enjoyable or possible?
    Gwendolyn Waldorf's avatar
    Gwendolyn Waldorf 12/26/2021 6:09 AM
    No sidewalks in our neighborhood but also not much traffic. It helps when the city keeps up with mowing the shoulders so stepping off the road doesn't result in chigger bites! Enjoy the morning birdsong; don't enjoy picking up the litter. Garbage collection day causes some; also smokers (butts and plastic tips); what's the story behind the broken ceramics?
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  • Reflection Question
    Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Keep Track of Wasted Food
    An average American throws out about 240 lbs of food per year. The average family of four spends $1,500 a year on food that they throw out. Where would you rather use this money?
    Gwendolyn Waldorf's avatar
    Gwendolyn Waldorf 12/01/2021 9:23 AM
    I'd rather use the money to support organic produce! It costs more but is better for the earth.
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  • Reflection Question
    Electricity Learn More about Wave and Tidal Energy
    What did you learn about wave and tidal energy? How do they compare to other energy sources?
    Ed Oaksford's avatar
    Ed Oaksford 7/27/2021 6:17 PM
    Interesting that ocean wave energy is so powerful and constant and it's so difficult to come up with a good solid efficient solution to producing consistent efficient energy. Once that does happen, and it will, this type of energy is just exactly where most of the people of the world are located, in coastal areas.
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    Ed Oaksford 7/23/2021 9:05 AM
    Watched Seaspiracy. Very troubling to see that if fishing is continued at its current rate populations will collapse by 2048. Another good video available on YouTube is "Salmon Confidential", which shows how bad farmed salmon is for natural populations of native salmon and for consumers of  the product.
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  • Bonnie Fesmire's avatar
    Bonnie Fesmire 7/02/2021 9:40 AM
    Drawdown Ecochallenge is the first time I've gotten into the details of how greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced. Before, EVs and alternative energy sources were about the extent of my thinking. Now I know about many more sources of greenhouse gases and the solutions that need to be implemented. Just about every aspect of our lives is damaging the environment. I am discouraged to see that the solutions we have in hand are not being more urgently implemented.
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  • Reflection Question
    Industry Research the Climate Impact of Refrigerants
    What did you learn about the climate impact of refrigerants? How do supermarkets contribute to this impact?
    Bonnie Fesmire's avatar
    Bonnie Fesmire 6/30/2021 8:07 PM
    The climate impact of refrigerants is much greater than I ever imagined. Supermarkets use large amounts of HFCs, with one supermarket contributing more to greenhouse gas emissions in a year than over 300 cars. 
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  • Reflection Question
    Industry Research the Climate Impact of Refrigerants
    What did you learn about the climate impact of refrigerants? How do supermarkets contribute to this impact?
    Brendan Clark's avatar
    Brendan Clark 6/30/2021 8:00 PM
    They contribute to global warming much more than CO2 does.
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  • Reflection Question
    Health and Education Research Barriers to Participation and Representation
    What are some of the barriers that exist to women's equal participation and/or representation in your community?
    Bonnie Fesmire's avatar
    Bonnie Fesmire 6/30/2021 11:48 AM
    My county has a gender pay gap, with women earning 84 cents for every dollar earned by men. Food and housing insecurity are a serious problem in my county. One in 4 people live in poverty, many of them in single-parent households headed by women. 
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  • Reflection Question
    Buildings Online Energy Audit
    What are your next steps for saving energy?
    Gwendolyn Waldorf's avatar
    Gwendolyn Waldorf 6/30/2021 7:05 AM
    Is anyone else having trouble with the online energy audit? I've entered the info 4 times on 3 different days and get an error message, basically "this part of the website isn't working try again later."
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    • Ed Oaksford's avatar
      Ed Oaksford 7/21/2021 1:03 PM
      HI Gwendolyn,
           I'm not sure but because the original Ecochallenge was to end June 30th, it may have had something to do with it. However, I've just sent out an email to the team indicating that the challenge has been extended until the end of this year (Dec. 31). Anyway, I'll check out the online energy edit myself and let you know how things turn out. Thanks for your dedicated participation.  -Ed
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  • Reflection Question
    Coastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks Learn about Biochar
    Can biochar provide additional benefits besides sequestering carbon?
    Bonnie Fesmire's avatar
    Bonnie Fesmire 6/05/2021 8:10 PM
    Biochar improves soil quality and increases crop yields.
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