Liliana Elias

High Noon Loons

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Liliana's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Composting

Composting, Reduced Food Waste

I will start a compost bin where I live.

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Action Track: Healing & Renewal

Explore My Area

Sometimes protecting nature requires feeling connected to nature. I will invest 60 minutes in exploring and appreciating a natural area in my region, whether a forest, wetland, coastal area, or somewhere else.

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Transportation

Go for a Daily Walk

Walkable Cities

I will take a walk for 60 minutes each day and take note of the infrastructure that makes walking more or less enjoyable, accessible, and possible.

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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Support Indigenous Peoples' Land Management

Indigenous Peoples' Forest Tenure

I will donate to Native American Rights Fund, which protects tribal natural resources and environmental rights and promotes Native American Human Rights.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Support Indigenous Peoples' Land Management

Indigenous speaker and activist Winona LaDuke says that, "most indigenous ceremonies, if you look to their essence, are about the restoration of balance — they are a reaffirmation of our relationship to creation. That is our intent: to restore, and then to retain balance and honor our part in creation." Why is balance important to sustainability?

Liliana Elias 4/26/2023 11:18 PM

Balance plays a key role with being sustainable as it means not using too much or too little, but just enough to not disturb nature. It is completely fine to use resources as long as it means using them to their fullest potential without being wasteful. An accumulation of waste has shown humanity that it is harmful to the planet, especially if we extract too many resources and discard them with little thought, only for them to continue disrupting natural cycles of life.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation Go for a Daily Walk

What have you noticed on your daily walks? What have you enjoyed? What infrastructure changes could make your walks more enjoyable or possible?

Liliana Elias 4/20/2023 12:27 PM

I have noticed so many small creatures that roam around the sidewalks and roads when there is little human activity and traffic. I have the amazing opportunity to go on these walks when there are no large groups of kids or adults walking around, and it's incredible seeing all of the flowers and agricultural fields when it is so peaceful. I Laos have the privilege of having safe walkways and a bridge to safely traverse.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Action Track: Healing & Renewal Explore My Area

How can spending more time outdoors enhance your sense of place -- your deep knowledge of and appreciation for your surroundings?

Liliana Elias 4/16/2023 10:36 PM

I believe spending time outdoors can enhance your sense of place because that time of exposure leads to an attachment with the familiarity of one's environment. At least in my own experience, I try as much as possible to enjoy the beauty of all of the flowers, trees and animals in my neighborhood, especially with the privilege of getting to see the greenery we received from the previous storms.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Composting

Producing food that goes uneaten squanders many resources—seeds, water, energy, land, fertilizer, hours of labor, financial capital. Which of these kinds of waste most motivates you to change your behavior regarding food waste? Why?

Liliana Elias 4/01/2023 10:45 PM

The kinds of waste that most motivates me toward changing my behavior regarding food are the seeds, water, energy, land and literally everything else involved in the process of agriculture. Collecting compost has been something my family and I have had an on-and-off habit of doing as it can be easy to simply toss organic material out. However, after everything I've been learning in this climate change class, I have really shifted my energy to trying to be more productive and thoughtful about what we do with the leftover materials as we accumulate so many different seeds, banana and potato peels, onions and eggs shells, and so on so forth. I also hope to be able to use this compost for a future garden my family and I are planning.

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