Chelsea Maricle

ThinkShout

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
538 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

1.0

energy audit

conducted
UP TO

240

minutes

of additional sleep
UP TO

40

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

1,323

pounds of CO2

have been saved

Chelsea's actions

Energy

Online Energy Audit

I will complete an online energy audit of my home, office, or dorm room and identify my next steps for saving energy.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Simplicity

Track my Purchases

I will spend 10 minutes each day maintaining a record of all my purchases and learning about my spending habits.

COMPLETED 4
DAILY ACTIONS

Health

Healthy Sleep

Effectively working for sustainability requires self care! I will commit to getting 30 more minute(s) of sleep each night to achieve at least 7 hours per night.

COMPLETED 8
DAILY ACTIONS

Transportation

Choose a Carbon Offset

If buying a plane ticket, I will also buy a carbon offset.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Nature

Tend a Garden

I will tend to a garden each day, or work on starting one.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Water

Eco-friendly Gardening

I will plant native species, landscape with water-efficient plants, and use eco-friendly fertilizers.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Join my Neighborhood Association

I will join my neighborhood association or another local group.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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
Energy Online Energy Audit

What most interested or surprised you about your own energy footprint?

Chelsea Maricle 10/24/2018 8:40 PM

Our energy footprint was not a surprise at all. What most interested me was going through the audit itself, especially as a new, first-time homeowner. Up until buying a house, I never paid any attention to what type of heating ducts we had, or whether our clothes dryer was electric. Simply doing the online audit (just 5 minutes!) made me get to know my home better and also start to understand where we might be losing our energy. Hopefully they are projects we can tackle in the near future!

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Chelsea Maricle 10/23/2018 10:28 PM

I haven't been able to participate as much in the EcoChallenge as I had originally wanted. First, my travel and subsequent wrist injury has been such a drag. Second, and unsuspectingly, most of the daily challenges are things I already do! Next year I might make them active challenges anyway, so I can feel good each day I live out the habit. :) Regardless, it's been *awesome* to see the team really step it up, engage, and win so many gift cards! Go ThinkShout - we're down to the last day!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Simplicity Track my Purchases

What have you noticed about your purchases? Where are you inclined to make shifts, if any?

Chelsea Maricle 10/15/2018 8:38 PM

We use YNAB to track our purchases and it's such a great system! However, I don't utilize all the tools it offers like I should. I just looked at the income v. expense report tonight, and it is really enlightening. It's amazing to see our spending trends over the last several months, broken out by category. I always feel like we're spending too much of our budget on groceries and eating out. Now that I have a better picture of our actual spending patterns, we can start making more educated decisions — not only about our food budget, but hopefully around getting our net income higher too! :)

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Chelsea Maricle 10/09/2018 8:53 PM

I just returned from a cross-country trip. I've always considered purchasing carbon offsets for my air travel but have never done gotten around to it. It's great to have the EcoChallenge inspire me to do it finally! While I may not specifically purchase offsets in the future, what really excites me is making a donation to a tree-planting nonprofit every time I fly, so I hope to make that commitment from this day forward.

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