Michelle Oost

Bio104Fall2020

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
415 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

2.0

locally sourced meals

consumed
UP TO

16

meatless or vegan meals

consumed
UP TO

335

minutes

spent exercising
UP TO

30

minutes

spent outdoors
UP TO

54

plastic bottles

not sent to the landfill

Michelle's actions

Nature

Explore My Area

I will explore at least one new hiking trail or nature walk in my area.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health

Exercise Daily

Do at Home

Exercise is a great stress blaster! I will exercise for 30 minute(s) each day.

COMPLETED 8
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Buy From a Farmers Market

Do at Home

I will purchase produce and meat from a local farmers market or food co-op.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Reduce Animal Products

Do at Home

I will enjoy 2 meatless meal(s) and/or 0 vegan meal(s) each day this week.

COMPLETED 10
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Use a Reusable Water Bottle

Do at Home

I will keep 1 disposable plastic bottle(s) from entering the waste stream by using a reusable water bottle.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.

To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

REFLECTION QUESTION
Nature Explore My Area

How can spending more time outdoors enhance your sense of place -- your deep knowledge of and appreciation for your surroundings?

Michelle Oost 10/22/2020 5:30 PM

You can really enjoy the most, when you want to be with your thoughts. Cry, yell, laugh, anything you need to. And once we are done and look around you actually feel better, relieved, comfortable, feel better.

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Michelle Oost 10/21/2020 7:27 PM

I feel healthier everyday and less stressed.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Reduce Animal Products

Why do people in richer countries eat more meat than people in other places? How does eating more meat affect our planet and other people?

Michelle Oost 10/14/2020 5:37 AM

The diet of eating more meat is affecting our planet by having these larger livestock farms, we are creating more greenhouse gases. We are using gas emissions with the tractors and trucks and we are cutting down trees to make fields.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Buy From a Farmers Market

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

Michelle Oost 10/11/2020 9:53 PM

I made a zucchini, mushroom, omelet with fresh eggs and zucchini, mushroom, pepper dish with melted chesse. More like stuffed pepper in a skillet.

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Michelle Oost 10/10/2020 9:49 PM

greek pesto calzone...

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Health Exercise Daily

How can you incorporate other personal values (like quality time with friends or spending time in nature) into your exercise routine?

Michelle Oost 10/10/2020 9:28 AM

I can exercise outside or have my friends join me. Do walks for a cause.

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Michelle Oost 10/10/2020 9:23 AM

Just from working out the 45 minutes, I feel healthier, less stressed, sore but a good sore.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Waste Use a Reusable Water Bottle

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?

Michelle Oost 10/07/2020 5:26 PM

Without using the water bottles, I'm trying clean up the streets we live, ponds around us, hopefully oceans

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