Sarah Hartnett

Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina

""Perhaps the Skywoman story endures because we too are always falling. Our lives, both personal and collective, share her trajectory. Whether we jump or are pushed, or hte edge of the known world just crumbles at our feet, we fall, spinning into space into someplace new and unexpected. Despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us." ~Robin Wall Kimmerer"

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
477 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

450

minutes

spent exercising
UP TO

30

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

135

minutes

spent outdoors
UP TO

12

pounds of paper

have been saved

Sarah's actions

Nature

Practice Gratitude for Earth

I will spend 15 minute(s) each day outside, practicing gratitude (prayer, meditation, journaling, etc.) for Earth and the nature surrounding me.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Community

Support Native Communities

I will use the resource links provided and spend 30 minutes learning about the native populations that lived in my area prior to colonization, and what I can do to support those that still exist.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Simplicity

Needs Vs. Wants

I will adopt a "Needs Vs. Wants" approach and only buy things I need.

COMPLETED 14
DAILY ACTIONS

Health

Exercise Daily

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

COMPLETED 15
DAILY ACTIONS

Health

Happiness

I will write down three things every day that I am grateful for, or send one email every day thanking or praising someone.

COMPLETED 17
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Choose Two-Sided Printing

I will save up to .21 lbs (.09 kg) of paper each day by switching from one-sided printing to two-sided.

COMPLETED 12
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Simplicity Needs Vs. Wants

How is creativity necessary for practicing simplicity?

Sarah Hartnett 10/15/2018 7:20 PM

Creativity is the backbone of simplicity. In it's basic form say you need a container for your idea for an indoor herb garden. You could hop on amazon or head to a your local big box store and buy some factory made, cheap craftsmanship container for a trendy indoor herb garden. OR you could find items around your house, scrap wood, unused containers and put together your own functional and grow your herbs!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Nature Practice Gratitude for Earth

Kathleen Dean Moore says that a sense of gratitude leads to a sense of moral obligation. Do you agree? How do we cultivate a sense of gratitude as individuals, and as a society?

Sarah Hartnett 10/13/2018 10:54 AM

I see gratitude as a virtue. It is cultivated by mindfulness and peaceful living. This is a challenge in our world. People are driven to acquire worldly things that do nothing but wreck the planet with waste, consumerism, corporate greed... the list goes on. So, embracing the virtue of gratitude can be cultivated by letting go.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Community Support Native Communities

Indigenous speaker and activist Winona LaDuke says that, "most indigenous ceremonies, if you look to their essence, are about the restoration of balance — they are a reaffirmation of our relationship to creation. That is our intent: to restore, and then to retain balance and honor our part in creation." Why is balance important to sustainability?

Sarah Hartnett 10/11/2018 8:16 PM

Balance is vital to sustainability. Examples of imbalance would be horrid factory "farms" versus finding the beautiful symbiosis of small local ecologically minded farms that work with the land and all that is within it. Balance is also found in sourcing our meals from food sources grown locally and seasonally. The earth when cared for provides for all our needs.

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Sarah Hartnett 10/08/2018 8:22 PM

Challenges are going well. I'd like to explore a few more that are out of my normal routine. I'm reading Braiding Sweetgrass and it's really waking me to the true interconnectedness of all things

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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?

Sarah Hartnett 10/06/2018 7:03 PM

Today, we took a trail ride, together in the woods. What a way to connect with each other and with nature. We're camping which is also a lovely way to reduce our impact on the earth and increase our connection with the earth.

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Sarah Hartnett 10/06/2018 6:58 PM

Very thought provoking. Making me think about the human impact on our earth.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Health Happiness

How does/can practicing gratitude keep you centered and motivated to work for a better world?

Sarah Hartnett 10/03/2018 8:09 AM

By providing an intentional focus on the positive in my life, it deters my thoughts from sitting in the negative space.

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Sarah Hartnett 10/03/2018 7:56 AM

I have an office job, I manage student records...it's all paper. Anytime I can double side print, I have and will continue to minimize the amount of paper I use.

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