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Welcome to 2020 People's Ecochallenge!

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2020 People's Ecochallenge
October 7 - October 28, 2020
Kim Thompson's avatar

Kim Thompson

HP Vancouver USA

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 611 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    1.0
    advocacy action
    completed
  • UP TO
    2.0
    conversations
    with people
  • UP TO
    3.0
    hours
    volunteered
  • UP TO
    33
    meatless or vegan meals
    consumed
  • UP TO
    145
    minutes
    of additional sleep
  • UP TO
    210
    minutes
    spent exercising
  • UP TO
    15
    minutes
    spent learning
  • UP TO
    84
    minutes
    being mindful

Kim's actions

Food

Go foraging for wild mushrooms

Local and sustainable food source.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health

Healthy Sleep

Do at Home

Effectively working for sustainability requires self care! I will commit to getting 10 more minute(s) of sleep each night to achieve at least 7 hours per night.

COMPLETED 9
DAILY ACTIONS

Community

Volunteer in My Community

Do at Home

I will volunteer 3 hour(s) in my community during the challenge.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Research Voter Suppression

Do at Home

I will spend at least 10 minutes finding out what local laws, policies, and practices keep people from voting in my community.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Action Track: Healing and Renewal

Engage In Active Listening

Do at Home

I will practice actively listening to a friend, family member, co-worker, acquaintance, or someone who I may disagree with in at least 1 conversations.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Action Track: Healing and Renewal

Forgiveness

Do at Home

I will begin, or continue, on the journey of forgiving myself and/or other(s). I may do this through journaling, meditation, prayer, and/or talking with a licensed healthcare professional.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Action Track: Healing and Renewal

Mindfulness Practice

Do at Home

I will spend 10 minute(s) per day practicing Mindfulness.

COMPLETED 12
DAILY ACTIONS

Action Track: Healing and Renewal

Joyful Movement

Do at Home

I will spend 10 minutes doing an activity where I'm both moving my body and enjoying myself.

COMPLETED 16
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Reduce Animal Products

Do at Home

I will enjoy 1 meatless meal(s) and/or 0 vegan meal(s) each day this week.

COMPLETED 17
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?

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    Kim Thompson 10/27/2020 8:41 AM
    foraging local and sustainable mushrooms

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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health Healthy Sleep
    Consider how many hours of sleep you get now. How would you like to shift your sleep patterns? What are you finding works for you to be successful in this action?
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    Kim Thompson 10/23/2020 9:44 AM
    How would you like to shift your sleep patterns? What are you finding works for you to be successful in this action?  >> i would like to shift sleep pattern to go to bed earlier.   What works well is to start & end sleep consistently even on weekends.   
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    Kim Thompson 10/21/2020 1:50 PM
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Action Track: Healing and Renewal Engage In Active Listening
    What was it like to actively listen to someone? How did both people and the conversation(s) benefit from active listening?
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    Kim Thompson 10/17/2020 4:36 PM
    It takes more energy to actively listen, but I learn more and retain more of what the person was saying.   Benefits both to be engaged fully and to know that they are worthy to be heard.  
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Community Volunteer in My Community
    What is one thing you can do to help your community become more sustainable?
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    Kim Thompson 10/17/2020 4:34 PM
    to help your community become more sustainable, I can help others locally and get to know more people in my community and more about what needs there are.
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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?
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    Kim Thompson 10/17/2020 4:22 PM
    1) changing diets to fitness goals (paleo, high protein), 2) wealth (meat is more expensive than plant protein like beans 3) climate enables more meat production   ...   eating more meat consumes more water/soil/energy/plant resources, less sustainable for the planet,  more water pollution leading to related health issues for people, 

    articles:
     https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/climate/meat-industry-climate-impact.html
    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/07/true-cost-of-eating-meat-environment-health-animal-welfare

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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Community Research Voter Suppression
    What are the ways in which voters are prohibited from or discouraged from voting in your region and/or state? What could be done to get rid of these barriers?
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    Kim Thompson 10/17/2020 4:15 PM
    Our president discouraged mail-in voting by alleging that it  was rampant with fraud and inaccuracies.    This in turn will influence voters to suspect election outcomes, and possibly not even vote.   Washington has improved its voting rights actually.  The Mail-In system is one good example of expanding access to voting.  
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