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October 1 - October 31, 2025
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Holly Windom

Team Comerica

"To be open and honest about my commitment to this challenge. To encourage my teammates as they share their experiences and achievements. To be a better human being to this planet. To support the healthiness and growth of the planet for my grandchildren's grandchildren. "

POINTS TOTAL

  • 45 TODAY
  • 95 THIS WEEK
  • 436 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    14
    meatless or vegan meals
    consumed
  • UP TO
    8.0
    plastic straws
    not sent to the landfill
  • UP TO
    13
    plastic bottles
    not sent to the landfill

Holly's actions

Take the Pre-Survey

Take the Pre-Event Survey

I’ll take a short pre-survey to share what motivated me to join — and earn 15 points! (If I already took the survey by email, I’ll just mark this action complete to get my points.)

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Make Sure You are Registered to Vote

I will make sure I’m registered to vote. While I’m at it, I’ll sign up to help others register too!

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Volunteer in My Community

I will volunteer 5 hours in my community during the challenge.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Energy

Choose LED Bulbs

I will replace 2 incandescent lightbulbs with Energy Star-certified LED bulbs, saving up to $14 per fixture per year.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Nature

Try Resources for Climate Anxiety

I will spend 15 minutes each day trying out climate anxiety resources that support mental and psychological well being.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Enjoy a Meatless Meal

Producing 1 kg of beef emits as much greenhouse gas as driving 150 miles, meanwhile, 1 kg of veggies or grains leaves a much lighter footprint! This week, I’ll shrink my climate impact by having 1 meatless meals and/or 1 vegan meals each day.

COMPLETED 5
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Use a Reusable Water Bottle

I will keep 2 disposable plastic bottles from entering the waste stream by using a reusable water bottle.

COMPLETED 5
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Skip the Straw

Plastic bags and small plastic pieces like straws are most likely to get swept into our waterways. I will keep 2 plastic straws out of the landfill and ocean each day by refusing straws or using my own glass/metal straw.

COMPLETED 3
DAILY ACTIONS

Water

Learn About Water Justice

Access to clean water is a basic right, yet not everyone has it. I will spend 20 minutes learning about water justice issues and who is affected.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Waste
    While water bottles are needed for health and safety in certain places, we can do more to reduce the unnecessary use of them. What are the barriers to you using reusable bottles and tap water instead of bottled water? How could you make this a permanent habit?

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    Holly Windom 10/08/2025 8:08 AM
    • Plant Parent 🪴
    Truthfully, I have not reached this, but I have heard it take at least 30 days to make a habit. No sure about you but besides bathing, eating and talking on the phone. I do not recall doing anything for 30 days in a row. I will promise to try! Thanks for the bottle suggestions. I'm looking into a good one. Just to keep my promise of a reusable water container for home and being out and about. Wish me good luck.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food
    How was your experience intentionally trying to eat less meat?

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    Holly Windom 10/06/2025 7:59 AM
    • Plant Parent 🪴
    Today's poem: by Elizabeth Bishop, ‘The Fish’.

    In this poem, Bishop’s speaker catches a fish but then lets it go; she delivers the first piece of information succinctly in the first line (‘I caught a tremendous fish’) and then the news that she let the fish go is delivered only in the poem’s final line; in between there is a long description of the fish and of the speaker’s growing awareness of it as part of a rich natural ecosystem. This has to be one of the most famous poems about fish. In your private time look up this poem. Take time to find out what you are actually eating and where it comes from and the original benefit/purpose of that item. Mine is frozen vegan crab cakes. What is your favorite meatless dish and or item?

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Waste
    How could you incorporate other "R's" -- reduce, reuse, refuse, repair, repurpose, etc. -- into your lifestyle?

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    Holly Windom 10/03/2025 9:05 AM
    • Plant Parent 🪴

    Author unknown...... I just make the effort each and every day. Becoming aware of your actions is the first start. Tell me how you incorporate these "R's"?

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    Holly Windom 10/02/2025 5:39 AM
    • Plant Parent 🪴


    I added this poem to remind you that we together with nature have a duty to make and effort side by side. It's tough for me not to use plastic water bottles, when I am on the go. At home or at work, I'm good but to carry around a reuseable water bottle. Well......Please tell me how to choose a Water Bottle and which one do you use? I need some recommendations.

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      Kristin Bloser 10/03/2025 8:55 AM
      The insulated stainless steel water bottles work best to keep my water cold all day (especially when I put a little ice in the water bottle). I really like my Yeti bottle. It was expensive, but I waited until I had some points accumulated from one of my credit cards to use at a store that carried the bottle.

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    Holly Windom 10/01/2025 7:40 AM
    • Plant Parent 🪴

    Let us all do our best on this journey

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    Holly Windom 9/11/2025 5:56 AM
    • Plant Parent 🪴
    October 2025 starts a new beginning of another ecochallegene. Well team, this gives us another chance to make a different. Make one of your challenges a really change in your environmental footprint and or behavior. Also, if everyone invites at least 5 people it can result in a very power effect on planet.

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      Jeff Lancaster 10/01/2025 7:21 AM
      That is true. Being encouraging helps. When up against opposition I would say, there is overwhelming data, but each has to be true to themselves.