Sustainable Wes

Participating in the challenge has made me more mindful about my actions and pushed me to do more. I’m glad I had the opportunity to reflect on some of my lifestyle choices over the past month and find ways to reduce my climate impact.

I chose to learn more about food waste, composting and rice production for this one time challenge. I’m glad I carved out some time for this on the last day!  The food solutions that have been identified by drawdown are grouped into 3 categories that address waste and diets, protecting ecosystems and changing agricultural practices to lower...

I guess this is it!  I don't think I changed fundamentally, but the challenge did help me focus on my consumption.  In tandem with the coronavirus lockdown, it is helping me to continue the drawdown of my own that I embarked on years ago.  What is hard is to refuse and reduce while embedded within a system dependent on my consumption.  I'll...

The weather has been rainy and cold, so for the last few days I have not been able to make progress on clearing invasives from the yard. But I have been making masks for friends, thinking about sustainable living in the time of the novel Corona virus, and reading a student's honor thesis on sustainable development and gentrification in two...

Encouraged by the Team Captain, I wanted to have a mechanism to remind me daily to think about my footprint and how I could reduce it.  I offered it to my students in the spirit of learning what motivates people to participate.  I chose the actions I did because of their appeal: how could I learn from them?  They were "safe":...

Resist!  Resisting the urge to buy something on a whim.  Resisting the marketing that urges us to shop pointlessly.  Resisting the system that needs us for our consumption.