I wasn't able to complete this; however I did accomplish 1 task I was putting off...I cleaned the stone pillars at the entrance to our subdivisionthat  and reset one of the stones in the facade that had fallen off in preparation for the installation of a new sign. This was a real challenge for me, and I did get a couple hours of exercise scrubbing the stones. My shoulders still hurt! Ugh.

Example: I was able to loan out a big folding table to a neighbor yesterday. They didn’t go out and buy a new one adding more plastic into the environment, and it helped me connect with a neighbor I wouldn’t have otherwise. They posted on our community page online. I feel like I can ask to borrow things too because I shared. This also saves money! Why would everyone need a folding table they only use once or twice a year?

Skipped the bottled water at the grocery and am buying beverages in glass and aluminum cans. Stuff tastes better in glass and it's recyclable. Portland has its own glass plant. 

The impact of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers on us and the natural world has been devastating and continues to impact us in ways that we are just now allowing to come to light. The impacts are most heavily felt in communities of color and low-income and is environmental injustice/environmental racism. 

Attended a lecture by Dr. Denise V. Rodgers:  "Persistent Health Disparities: Understanding the Role of Social Determinants, Implicit Bias and Racism" which addressed the role of inequality in social determinants as contributors to disparities in outcomes by race/ethnicity, and the role of discrimination, racism and implicit bias as contributors to inequality in social determinants and health outcomes. https://echo360.org/media/f0793b80-ae01-4d8f-a5fc-d7c25b3f144f/public

Learned a little bit more about the food desert in our community, one of which is located east of 82nd Avenue and how food deserts impact our community members not only by restricting access to nutritious food, but how every little piece has a ripple: traveling further to get to a grocery store turns a 14 hour day into a 16 hour day and determines what you purchase if you are carrying your groceries and that lack of access to nutritious foods effects a child's ability to study and effects health outcomes. Also, maps of food desert locations often coincide with neighborhoods that are predominantly low-income and  people of color. So the food desert conversation is a conversation about racial justice and health disparities.