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October 1 - October 31, 2025

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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food
    What is one food choice that you make, or could make, that would do more good and less harm?

    Tonia Wu's avatar
    Tonia Wu 10/07/2025 5:52 AM
    Support a local CSA (community supported agriculture) if you can and source as much food as possible from local farmers practicing regenerative agriculture! Our hyper-industrialized food system is at the heart of so many environmental, animal welfare and health-related problems. Eat less meat, especially beef and lamb, which contribute the most emissions per kilo (Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food )

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    Tonia Wu 10/03/2025 7:56 AM
    I always learn something new during these ecochallenges - many of the actions introduce me to concepts I've never heard before or haven't thought much about. The people's ecochallenge is important because of the focus on social and economic issues. There's still a misperception of environmental problems as being primarily scientific or technical in nature, when actually many environmental issues have cultural roots and arise from inequality, injustice, and economic and social exploitation.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food
    If you were to only eat what is in season locally from now on, what would be the most difficult food item for you to give up? Why?

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    Tonia Wu 10/03/2025 6:22 AM
    There are a few products that come from warmer or tropical regions that I would really have a hard time doing without - coffee, citrus fruits (oranges, lemons) and sesame products/sesame oil, which is used a lot in Asian and Mediterranean foods. I don't think we'll lose access to these items any time soon, but they may become much more expensive as climate change continues to bite and cheap energy winds down.

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    Louisa Lubiak 10/02/2025 12:12 PM
    I've done a lot of Ecochallenges over the past 10-or-more years. After looking at this People's Ecochallenge Actions, I can see that I have adopted numerous habits from previous Ecochallenges!

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      Megan Gonzales 10/02/2025 12:46 PM
      • Book Lover 📚
      This is my first challenge. I’m excited to see what new habits I can develop too!
  • 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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    Madison Vorona 10/02/2025 11:53 AM
    • Adventurer 🏔
    I find that the biggest hold up i have is utilizing public water systems, whether that be from a water fountain or tap i find it alittle unsettling to consume, being unsure of the water quality of the given area. To combat this, i consistently drink spring water from home that we have delivered in glass jugs, ensuring a reduction to my microplastic intake, as well as providing traceable sources of purified and properly treated water. I like consistency, ice cold water and i think there are too many variables when drinking from a random public faucet, beyond contents, but also temperature. Now before i got my Owala i struggled with having a consistent bottle in my life that i would fill daily, and i blame this on the oral fixation that comes with traditional water bottles on the market; for example, the gatorade bottles that have the spout-like top to suck from is a limiting factor for me. additionally I'll mention any reusable cup that has a straw, i find this to be very unsanitary and i dont like the physical act of sipping through a small straw or pouring things into my mouth from a bottle with a large top. the owala allows me to have a liter of ice cold purified water from the time that i leave my house to when i get home 10 hours later.