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Welcome to Drawdown EcoChallenge!

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Ecochallenge.org and Project Drawdown
Drawdown EcoChallenge
April 4 - April 25, 2018
Linda Blue's avatar

Linda Blue

EcoChallenge Community Team

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 201 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    75
    minutes
    spent learning
  • UP TO
    1.0
    person
    helped

Linda's actions

Food

Explore Other Food Solutions

All Food Solutions

I will spend at least 45 minutes researching other Drawdown Food Solutions.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Electricity Generation

Explore Other Electricity Generation Solutions

All Electricity Generation Solutions

I will spend at least 60 minutes researching other Drawdown Electricity Generation Solutions.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Transport

Purchase a Carbon Offset

#43 Airplanes

If I buy a plane ticket, I will purchase a carbon offset.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Buildings and Cities

Explore Other Buildings and Cities Solutions

All Buildings and Cities Solutions

I will spend at least 30 minutes researching other Drawdown Buildings and Cities Solutions.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Land Use

Restore Wetlands

#52 Coastal Wetlands

I will volunteer 4 hours with a wetland restoration project in my region.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Women and Girls

Give a Microloan

#62 Women Smallholders

I will give 1 microloan(s) to women who need help starting a business.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Buildings and Cities
    What did you find out? What is the most interesting fact you learned?
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    Linda Blue 4/12/2018 6:04 PM
    I really like the concept of seeing buildings as living mechanisms that breathe.  I also loved the idea of being able to walk or bike everywhere. Having grown up in LA it was hard to imagine. Now living in the Portland area I can see it’s totally possible.
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food
    What did you find out? What is the most interesting fact you learned?
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    Linda Blue 4/12/2018 5:58 PM
    I found that not eating meat is one of the most important thing we can do to decrease both carbon and methane. I learned that there are literally there are children starving because you wanted chicken for dinner. The amount of resources used to feed one chicken is equal to feeding a child.
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Women and Girls
    Globally, women typically invest a higher proportion of their earnings in their families and communities than men. Why do you think that is?
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    Linda Blue 4/12/2018 5:55 PM
    Because women are the primary child rearers and they tend to more invested in the social outcome of their children.
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