"Do the right thing. Lead global, local, and individual actions to reduce our carbon footprint and make a difference to people impacted around the world, including health and well-being for all."
POINTS TOTAL
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TODAY
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THIS WEEK
4,640
TOTAL
participant impact
UP TO
4,215
minutes
spent exercising
UP TO
71
more servings
of fruits and vegetables
UP TO
300
minutes
spent learning
UP TO
100
trees
planted
UP TO
120
minutes
spent outdoors
UP TO
2.0
donations
made
Cindy's actions
Food
Smart Seafood Choices
Ocean Farming
I will visit seafoodwatch.org or download the app and commit to making better seafood choices for a healthier ocean.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Women and Girls
Connect With A Nonprofit
Health and Education
I will connect with a local nonprofit working on issues affecting women, girls, and/or trans/nonbinary people in my community, and find out how I can get involved or become a member.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Materials
Learn About & Practice Sustainable Fashion
Multiple Industry Solutions
I will learn about sustainable fashion and begin trying to practice it in my own life.
I will spend at least 45 minutes learning about the need for more regenerative agriculture.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Action Track: Social Justice
Support Microgeneration in Low Income Countries
Small Hydropower, Micro Wind Turbines, Microgrids
I will make a donation to a nonprofit that installs microgeneration in low income countries.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Women and Girls
Research Businesses Owned by Women, POC, or Immigrants
Sustainable Intensification for Smallholders
I will spend 30 minutes each day researching businesses owned by women, people of color, or immigrants that I can support when shopping.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Action Track: Justice for the Whole Community
Learn about Local Indigenous Practices
Indigenous Peoples' Forest Tenure
I will spend at least 30 minutes learning how local indigenous tribes are caring for the land by participating in a training, workshop, or presentation.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Action Track: Justice for the Whole Community
UK Breakfast Bill
Nearly 2m kids in the U.K. start school on an empty stomach; this reduces their ability to learn. We are supporting a charity called Magic Breakfast which helps to fill some of the gap. To ensure the bigger problem gets solved, I have written to my local MP to ask her to sign the upcoming Breakfast Bill : magicbreakfast.eaction.org.uk
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Transport
Use Muscle Power
Multiple Transportation Solutions
I will cut my car trip mileage by only taking necessary trips, and I will only use muscle-powered transportation for all other trips.
COMPLETED 101
DAILY ACTIONS
Women and Girls
Support Women-Owned Businesses
Sustainable Intensification for Smallholders
I will shop from women-owned business(es) today.
COMPLETED 104
DAILY ACTIONS
Transportation
Go for a Daily Walk
Walkable Cities
I will take a walk for 30 minutes each day and take note of the infrastructure that makes walking more or less enjoyable, accessible, and possible.
COMPLETED 71
DAILY ACTIONS
Land Use
Plant Trees
I planted 40 trees in New Brunswick as a gift to my cousin for her 40th birthday. She is an environmental lawyer. Reforesting in this site will increase species diversity, promote climate change resilience as well as provide educational opportunities for universities, schools and forestry professional associations.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Land Use
Plant Trees
Temperate Forest Restoration
I will plant 100 tree(s) in my community, public parks, or backyard.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Health and Education
Learn about the Need for Family Planning
Health and Education
I will spend at least 45 minutes learning more about the need for family planning globally.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Action Track: Social Justice
Intersectionality
Continue to learn about the impact of intersectional systemic issues and interventions. Example outlined in this article on racism, published on World Environment Day: https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/06/05/racism-environmental-movement/
COMPLETED 130
DAILY ACTIONS
Transportation
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
There is currently a discrepancy between redesigning lower traffic neighborhoods around London, encouraging alternative modes of transport and public service safety. Today we attended a forum to understand the issues and will contact public officials to promote a solution.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Electricity Generation
Smart Energy GB
I will check our home smart meter every day to understand how to be more efficient with gas and electricity use.
COMPLETED 93
DAILY ACTIONS
Action Track: Building Resilience
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.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Electricity
Calculate the carbon footprint of my household
I will calculate the carbon emissions associated with my household and consider how different lifestyle choices could reduce our carbon footprint and our impact on the environment.
COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Action Track: Healing & Renewal
Modern Health
Download the Modern Health app and create an account
UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION
Action Track: Healing & Renewal
More Fruits And Veggies
I will eat a heart healthy diet by adding 1 cups of fruits and vegetables each day to achieve at least 4 cups per day.
COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS
Action Track: Healing & Renewal
Explore My Area
Sometimes protecting nature requires feeling connected to nature. I will invest 20 minutes in exploring and appreciating a natural area in my region, whether a forest, wetland, coastal area, or somewhere else.
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?
REFLECTION
QUESTION
Action Track: Healing & RenewalExplore My Area
How can spending more time outdoors enhance your sense of place -- your deep knowledge of and appreciation for your surroundings?
Exploring different parts of coastline provides an understanding of local nature and artistic heritage.
On a weekend away in Suffolk, east England, we discovered many wonderful fishing practices but that other wildlife is being impacted by power lines. For example deer and turtle doves.
While the giant scallop, crafted locally, provides a place to rest and contemplate.
Action Track: Building ResilienceSupport 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?
I’ll answer this with a quote by Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The pecan trees and their kin show a capacity for concerted action, for unity of purpose that transcends the individual trees. They ensure somehow that all stand together and thus survive.”
On our recent vacation in Cornwall we came across this restored tin mine. It is set in a community which is very environmentally active. We stayed in a tree house built by one of the founders of the charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) https://www.sas.org.uk/
I was given this book as a gift. It is about gratitude, science and how to achieve reciprocity with the earth.
A weave of ecology, environmental biology and stories that appeal to each sense.
A helpful complement to all the resources provided by Drawdown Ecochallenge. To understand how indigenous practices around the world are critical to learning about, and addressing, climate change and environmental sustainability.
Nearly 2m kids in the U.K. start school on an empty stomach; this reduces their ability to learn. We are supporting a charity called Magic Breakfast which helps to fill some of the gap. To ensure the bigger Community Social Justice problem gets solved, I have written to my local MP to ask her to sign the upcoming Breakfast Bill : https://www.magicbreakfast.com/school-breakfast-bill
Climate change is a threat multiplier. One of our most powerful levers is curbing population growth: 1bn fewer people = 120bn tons less emissions. Charities like Educating Girls of Rural China, supported by AlixPartners’ Shanghai office, provide young girls access to education to learn about life choices.
How do your transportation choices affect your engagement in your community? Does your experience or enjoyment differ while walking, riding transit, biking or driving?
There are so many different ways to travel the 8-9 miles into central London from my home. When I was training for marathons I would run to work several times per week and enjoyed seeing the city come to life at sunrise.
For the past several years I’ve been injured but enjoyed getting through more books by listening to them while commuting by public transport. The packed-train experience was extremely unpleasant so I began to walk certain legs of the journey to arrive at work or home in a better state of mind.
I now have a bike and love the opportunity to explore routes and observe life happening across the varied pockets of the city again.
I learned that indigenous people are the original environmentalists and that they safeguard 80% of the world’s biodiversity. A simple way to apply their principles of food security is to buy local produce.
Not related to land management but I learned about Two Spirit identities in tribal communities in North America. There are society groups in Canada and also across the US, ranging from NY to Dallas to California. Companies can be aware and inclusive of this population as part of LGBTQ education and allyship.
Each of us can impact the environment in multiple ways. It is important to understand the impact of intersectional systemic issues. A good example of this is outlined in this article on racism, published on World Environment Day: https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/06/05/racism-environmental-movement/
Globally, women typically invest a higher proportion of their earnings in their families and communities than men. What have you done in the past to support women-owned businesses? How can you better support communities by supporting women?
Over two decades of grassroots travel, we have sought out opportunities to support local entrepreneurs, and women cooperatives, as well as what we do at home in the UK.
Through my Ecochallenge research, I’ve also discovered Starfishproject.com which helps exploited women and girls to establish independence and develop careers.
