Leslie Kendall

First Christian Church Wilson NC

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866 TOTAL

participant impact

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66

donations

made
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221

gallons of water

have been saved
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120

minutes

spent learning
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1,650

minutes

spent outdoors
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1,650

minutes

not spent in front of a screen
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4.4

pounds

food waste prevented
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9.3

pounds of CO2

have been saved
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22

waste audits

conducted

Leslie's 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.

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DAILY 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 22
DAILY ACTIONS

Balancing Consumption

Needs Vs. Wants

Each day, I will practice a "Needs Vs. Wants" approach and only buy things I need.

COMPLETED 22
DAILY ACTIONS

Nourishing Food

Donate Food

I will find out what food programs are in my area and donate food and/or other items that they request.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Nourishing Food

Weekly Meal Planning

I will reduce food waste, excess carbon and save money by planning my daily and weekly menus so that I only purchase the ingredients needed.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Regenerating Nature

Support Local Pollinators

At least 30% of crops and 90% of flowering plants rely on pollinators to produce fruit. I will spend 60 minutes researching which plants support local pollinators and plant a few in my area.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Regenerating Nature

Spend Time Outside

I will replace 60 minute(s) per day typically spent inside and often with electronics with quality time outside walking, exercising, enjoying the sunrise/sunset, gardening, journaling, observing nature, or practicing gratitude for nature.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Regenerating Nature Support Local Pollinators

Why is it important to take care of pollinators? Do you have a favorite pollinator?

Leslie Kendall 10/20/2022 11:16 AM

I planted a pesticide, herbicide-free pollinator garden several years ago to help our little pollinator friends find a safe place to thrive in a landscape that has become less friendly every year due to pesticides, herbicides, deforestation, and other trauma directly related to humans. These little guys are so necessary for the flowering of fruit and vegetable plants and our beautiful flower gardens! Without them it would be difficult to raise the crops necessary to feed the world, and we would lose the world’s beautiful flower gardens. So it’s important to provide our pollinators with safe spaces and sources of nourishment and water needed to be healthy enough to go out and accomplish their role in the food chain. My favorites this year were the monarch caterpillars on the milkweed and the cute little fuzzy bumblebees that visited the garden each day.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Nourishing Food Donate Food

Why do you donate food? How does it connect to your values?

Leslie Kendall 10/20/2022 10:21 AM

I donate food and time to the Hope Station food pantry to help with food insecurity in my community. I also donate food and dollars to church and other local agencies to support both local and global food collection projects. The Lord says to feed the hungry as well as love my neighbors, and Wilson and the larger world are my neighbors. Good insecurity is a struggle in both! If I am to be a faithful disciple of Jesus, my actions must reflect His values.

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Leslie Kendall 10/10/2022 9:16 AM

Reducing waste from plastic packaging is not going as well as I’d hoped, but I am trying harder to find goods in recyclable and compostable packaging. My spending has sure declined as a result since there are fewer options.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Regenerating Nature Spend Time Outside

What are the implications for a culture that spends most of its time inside and on screens?

Leslie Kendall 10/07/2022 12:03 PM

Isolation, obesity, decline of mental and physical health, increased pain from lack of movement, poor eyesight, poor communication skills, selfishness and self-centeredness, a void in appreciation for natural world, diminished spiritually…

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Nourishing Food Weekly Meal Planning

An average American throws out about 240 lbs of food per year. The average family of four in the US spends $1,500 a year on food that they throw out. Does this surprise you? Where would you rather use this money?

Leslie Kendall 10/07/2022 11:54 AM

I am not surprised by the amount of wasted food because I am so guilty of this myself. I waste money on “good intentions” - like fresh fruit and veggies we don’t get around to eating and throwing out lots of leftovers no one wants to eat.

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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?

Leslie Kendall 10/07/2022 11:45 AM

I need to shop less and stop being drawn in to stores by the best sale ever. After donating what I don’t use, need, or wear, I must get used to purchasing on a needs- only basis. I should use treasured family pieces in decorating instead of new items.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Balancing Consumption Needs Vs. Wants

How is creativity a necessary ingredient for practicing simplicity?

Leslie Kendall 10/07/2022 11:37 AM

It takes creativity to repair when broken, to repurpose and reuse when worn out, to reduce waste when purchasing necessities, and to imagine life with less of one’s well-loved stuff.

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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?

Leslie Kendall 10/07/2022 7:02 AM

Most of my waste comes from food packaging. It’s been very difficult to find fresh high quality and organic food items locally that are not packaged in plastic.

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- Leslie Kendall 10/10/2022 9:27 AM
  
  I didn’t really answer the question - it’s hard to understand the impact because I don’t see what happens to trash and recyclables once they leave my home. It’s easy to see trash discarded in the landscape and on roadsides as well as recyclables dumped in public trash cans instead of recycling bins. I can only imagine what happens to animals, landfills, bodies of water as a result. I’ve sure heard horror stories. Studying the process ought to make one more aware.
  
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