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Welcome to Drawdown EcoChallenge!

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

Alec Brown

PCC SOC 228 Environmental Sociology

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 300 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    28
    locally sourced meals
    consumed

Alec's actions

Food

Support Local Food Systems

#4 Plant-Rich Diet

I will source 2 meal(s) 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.

COMPLETED 14
DAILY ACTIONS

Materials

Recycle Everything I Can

#55 Household Recycling

I will recycle all materials that are accepted by local haulers or drop stations in my community.

COMPLETED 14
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

composting

#60 Composting, #3 Reduced Food Waste

I will start a compost bin where I live.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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?

  • Alec Brown's avatar
    Alec Brown 4/10/2018 9:46 AM
    I Just recently moved out of a house with four roommates who frankly just don't think or care about their consumption/ impacts on the environment. Now i am living in a smaller more manageable space with my girlfriend. This gives me the opportunity to recycle everything that goes through the house correctly. It also gives me the ability to compost all of the food waste that just me and my GF produce. I am excited to see the changes i can make in the upcoming weeks. another thing i would like to work on is utilizing the great public transportation here that we have in Portland because up until now I have been pretty bad about using the bus. 
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    • Kim Smith's avatar
      Kim Smith 4/14/2018 6:29 PM
      Isn't it amazing to have our behaviors shaped so much by those we live with.  This is a really good example of the "commons," which can reflect the micro level of our homes to the macro level of the planet.  Living together requires a sharing of responsibilities, in addition to designing systems that make it easy to participate.
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