Linda Daniel

USGBC-Missouri Gateway Chapter

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
290 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

120

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

26

meatless or vegan meals

consumed

Linda's actions

Transport

Research and Consider Switching to a Hybrid or Electric Vehicle

#26 Electric Vehicles

I will spend at least 60 minutes researching and weighing my options to see if a hybrid or electric vehicle makes sense for my lifestyle.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Buildings and Cities

Online Energy Audit

Multiple Solutions

I will complete an online energy audit of my home, office, or dorm room and identify my next steps for saving energy.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Electricity Generation

Solar Water Consultation

#41 Solar Water

I will contact a local installer/distributor to see if a solar water heater makes sense for my house.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Materials

Go Paperless

#70 Recycled Paper

I will reduce the amount of paper mail that I receive by opting into paperless billing and subscriptions.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Land Use

Forest-Friendly Foods 1

#5 Tropical Forests

I will spend at least 60 minutes researching the impact of my diet to see how it contributes to deforestation.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Women and Girls

Connect With A Nonprofit

#6 Educating Girls, #7 Family Planning, #62 Women Smallholders

I will connect with a local nonprofit working on womens' or girls' issues in my community, and find out how I can get involved or become a member.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Reduce Animal Products

#4 Plant-Rich Diet

I will enjoy 2 meatless or vegan meal(s) each day of the challenge.

COMPLETED 13
DAILY ACTIONS

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?

Linda Daniel 4/25/2018 6:55 PM
Great to be involved in this challenge. Want to continue to learn more about how supporting women around the world is a benefit to our planet. Enjoyed only eating one meal with meat each day!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transport

Reducing (or eliminating) exhaust emissions and improving public health are two benefits of green vehicles. What other motivators inspire you to consider switching to a more fuel-efficient vehicle?
Linda Daniel 4/15/2018 6:42 PM
It was interesting to find out that electric vehicles were developed first, but manufacturers changed over to gasoline fuel vehicles as recommended by the fuel companies. At this time we have the ability to make choices and have more information available to us regarding making these choices. My concern has always been an electric vehicle will need to be charged and how long it will run until it needs to be recharged. It is good to find that charging stations are available in areas where I travel, some cars remain charged for 240 miles, and carbon emissions are reduced by 50% when charged from grid electricity and by 95% when charged from solar.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Land Use

How is your diet currently impacting deforestation? What can you do to decrease your negative impact and increase your positive impact?
Linda Daniel 4/09/2018 6:25 PM
Love the smell of coffee, but not the taste . . . and any chocolate I will be eating will be grown in a rain-forest! Have the list of products with palm oil products in them, will stay away from certain products, contacting companies that produce products I consume regularly (chocolate again) to see if they can use palm oil alternatives.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food

What do you think contributes to people in North America eating more meat than other countries, and what does this say about North American values and ways of living? How do we start shifting a meat-focused food culture?
Linda Daniel 4/04/2018 6:59 PM
I think our ancestry has a lot to do with this. I am of European decent and supposedly my ancestry also includes Native American Heritage. From my understanding both cultures ate meat. My goal is to only eat one meal a day with meat, which I assume my may have been similar to my ancestors' diet, since our availability of meat has become more of a factory process than a hunting action.

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Linda Daniel 4/04/2018 6:47 PM
Great to be eating more healthy only having one meal a day with meat - the other two are meatless!!

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Linda Daniel 3/30/2018 2:09 PM
Looking forward to starting this challenge in 5 days!

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