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Drawdown EcoChallenge
April 4 - April 25, 2018
Ava Powchak's avatar

Ava Powchak

Asheville High School!

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 121 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    6.0
    meatless or vegan meals
    consumed

Ava's actions

Food

Reduce Animal Products

#4 Plant-Rich Diet

I will enjoy 3 meatless or vegan meal(s) each day of the challenge.

COMPLETED 2
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

composting

#60 Composting, #3 Reduced Food Waste

I will start a compost bin where I live.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Materials

Eliminate Toxic Plastics

#47 Bioplastic

I will avoid buying toxic plastics, including polycarbonate, polystyrene and polyvinyl and instead replace them with bioplastic or durable options.

COMPLETED 2
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

  • 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?
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    Ava Powchak 4/24/2018 10:13 AM
    My parents are vegetarians and eat meat free meals every day anyway. Me and my brother on the other hand are not. For the past month I have just been eating all the meals that my parents eat and not incorporating meat into the meals that we eat. If we go out to dinner I just dont order meat. It has been pretty simple becase my family cooks vegetarian meals anyways, I just had to take my part of not having meat in the house that has to be eaten. 
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Materials
    What single-use items (e.g. straws, coffee cups, vegetable bags, plastic bags) do you regularly use? What could be substituted instead?
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    Ava Powchak 4/24/2018 10:06 AM
    I like to drink out of straws. I know that they are very bad for the earth and produce a lot of waste. Due to this I decided to stop purchasing them and using them at restaurants. Now I have 4 bamboo straws at my house. That is one for every family member. We can reuse them over and over again and they create no waste like plastic straws do. 
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