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This has made me realize the importance of creating a waste water solution.

To actively participate in important decision making we can attend community meetings, join advocacy groups or non profits and serve on boards. I have learned so much on ways to support with sustainability from the volunteer work that I do with Common Ground Farm and understanding where their funding comes from and how loss of grants negatively...

I live in the Northeast and with the time changing this upcoming weekend, it becomes difficult to get outside as much. I understand the importance for me to spend some time outside each day and will work over the next few months to try and keep that up, involving my family as well so that we don't slide into the seasonal depression.

I drink a lot of iced drink and like straws. I was mindful this month with using reusable straws. I need to be better at home with using plastic bags when going to someone's house or sending my kids off with something.

I managed to use my reusable cup nearly everywhere I went this month. I noticed that sometimes when I stop to get a fountain soda, I don't think about using my own cup and need to be better with that as well.

Social media takes up too much time that I could be focused on something more productive. I've been trying to get my children to understand that car time is a great time to put the phone down and just connect with each other.

Purposefully spending time each day this month in silence has really helped me focus in other areas and I would like to keep this up.

A culture that spends most of it's time indoors experiences negative effects on physical, mental and social health as well as it's relationship with Nature. I managed to spend about 30 minutes minimum outside each day in October and it really helped me with my mental health.

The people's ecochallenge was perfect timing. This time of year is tough with school and sports in full swing for my children and navigating some crazy schedules. The ecochallenge forced me to be mindful with trying to spend time outside each day and away from screens as well as focus on making sustainable choices with containers, cups etc. I...

We are just a few days shy of completing THE PEOPLE'S ECOCHALLENGE 2025. Will you be taking what you've learned and applying it to your daily life? Have you joined your local PFS chapter to keep these action items alive throughout the year and helping others learn? What was your biggest takeaway from this month's challenge? Mine was being more...