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Welcome to 2018 People's Ecochallenge!

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2018 People's Ecochallenge
October 3 - October 24, 2018
Lorri Strickland's avatar

Lorri Strickland

Port of Portland

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 323 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    13
    plastic straws
    not sent to the landfill
  • UP TO
    14
    whole food meals
    consumed

Lorri's actions

Health

Avoid refined sugar

I will adopt a diet free of refined sugars, which eliminates sweetened beverages, candy, and processed foods.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Skip the Straw

Plastic bags and small plastic pieces like straws are most likely to get swept into our waterways. I will keep 1 plastic straw(s) out of the landfill and ocean each day by refusing straws or using my own glass/metal straw.

COMPLETED 13
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Whole Foods Diet

I will enjoy 1 meal(s) each day free of processed foods.

COMPLETED 14
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
    Food Whole Foods Diet
    Michael Pollan states that "it is better to pay the grocer (our edit: or the farmer!) than the doctor." What are your thoughts on this?
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    Lorri Strickland 10/17/2018 8:43 AM
    What you put in, is what you get out. If you eat crappy you feel crappy, if you eat healthy and have a balanced diet you feel more healthy and balanced and are more apt to take part in more healthy activities. I look at it as "paying attention to myself"!
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health Avoid refined sugar
    Before you started this challenge, did you think you were 'addicted' to sugar? How do you feel now?
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    Lorri Strickland 10/16/2018 8:29 AM
    No sugar in the coffee can seem rough at first but after awhile I don't really miss it!
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Waste Skip the Straw
    How could you incorporate other "R's" -- reduce, reuse, refuse, repair, repurpose, etc. -- into your lifestyle?
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    Lorri Strickland 10/03/2018 8:23 AM
    Utilizing a recycled lunch bag, and utensils for work. 
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