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The People's Ecochallenge 2022

October 5 - October 26, 2022

Lisa Brenskelle

Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston

Points Total

0 Today
0 This Week
455 Total

Participant Impact

up to

4.0

waste audits

conducted
up to

88

donations

made
up to

3.0

hours

volunteered
up to

1.0

community events

hosted or attended
up to

20

minutes

spent learning

Lisa's Actions

Balancing Consumption

Personal Waste Audit

Each day, I will collect, track, or take a picture of all of my unrecyclable, non-compostable trash to know how much I send to the landfill.

COMPLETED 4
DAILY ACTIONS

Cultivating Communities

Pull Together Items to Donate

Each day, I will find one or more items I can donate to a local thrift or resale shop.

COMPLETED 6
DAILY ACTIONS

Regenerating Nature

Volunteer in My Community

I will volunteer 3 hour(s) for a nature-based event or another opportunity to support my community.

Completed
One-Time Action

Nourishing Food

Forest-Friendly Foods

I will spend 20 minutes learning about palm oil, coffee, cocoa, and other products known to contribute to deforestation, and replace or remove them.

Completed
One-Time Action

Feed

Reflection Question
Balancing Consumption Personal Waste Audit

Why is it often difficult to understand the impacts our purchases and waste have on other people, animals, and places?

Lisa Brenskelle 10/10/2022 4:53 PM

I think it is because waste is largely invisible in our society. That's why I find doing waste audits periodically so useful - it makes clear what is being wasted and why and helps motivate me to change my habits.

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Reflection Question
Nourishing Food Forest-Friendly Foods

How did you figure out ways to remove foods that are not forest-friendly?

Lisa Brenskelle 10/10/2022 4:52 PM

The challenge on forest-friendly foods was really educational. I saved all the links so that I can share material from them on Facebook and spread the knowledge!

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Reflection Question
Cultivating Communities Pull Together Items to Donate

How can you prevent yourself from accumulating more things in the future?

Lisa Brenskelle 10/06/2022 1:29 PM

Actually, the items for donation are ones that I "rescued" when colleagues left my employer and left personal items behind that were still usable, such as sweater and coats.

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- Mary Hanks 10/12/2022 7:52 PM
  
  How wonderful that you identified these items and sent them on to continue to be useful to someone!
  
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