Gian Ascione
"From silent spring to raucous summer"
POINTS TOTAL
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participant impact
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UP TO5.0donationsmade
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UP TO1.0energy auditconducted
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UP TO1.0lightbulbreplaced
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UP TO16locally sourced mealsconsumed
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UP TO28minutesspent learning
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UP TO10minutesspent outdoors
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UP TO1.0personhelped
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UP TO11public officials or leaderscontacted
Gian's actions
Health and Education
Fund Family Planning
Health and Education
I will donate to supply a community with reproductive health supplies.
Land Sinks
Explore My Area
Sometimes protecting nature requires feeling connected to nature. I will invest 10 minutes in exploring and appreciating a natural area in my region, whether a forest, wetland, coastal area, or somewhere else.
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Support Local Food Systems
Plant-Rich Diets
I will source 10 percent of my food from local producers each day. This could include signing up for a local CSA, buying from a farmer's market, visiting a food co-op, foraging with a local group, or growing my own ingredients.
Electricity
Learn More About Geothermal Energy
Geothermal Power
I will spend at least 5 minutes learning more about the energy generation potential of geothermal energy and consider investing in this technology.
Electricity
Choose LED Bulbs
LED Lighting
I will replace 2 incandescent lightbulb(s) with Energy Star-certified LED bulbs, saving up to $14 per fixture per year.
Health and Education
Make School More Affordable
Health and Education
I will raise funds to help make school affordable for girls around the world.
Buildings
Online Energy Audit
Multiple Solutions
I will complete an online energy audit of my home, office, or dorm room and identify my next steps for saving energy.
Buildings
Plan to Insulate
Insulation
I will find out how to make my home more energy efficient through better insulation and weatherization.
Health and Education
Learn about the Need for Family Planning
Health and Education
I will spend at least 20 minutes learning more about the need for family planning globally.
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Composting
Composting, Reduced Food Waste
I will start a compost bin where I live.
Health and Education
Help Students Overcome Health Barriers
Health and Education
I will donate 1 Femme Kit(s) to help people who menstruate overcome health and sanitation barriers to being able to attend school.
Coastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks
Advocate for Wetland Protection
Coastal Wetland Protection
I will write 1 letter(s) or email(s) per day to a public official or representative to advocate for policies that protect wetlands.
Action Track: Accelerating Solutions
Donate
Improved Clean Cookstoves
I will donate to nonprofits that install clean cookstoves in low-income countries.
Action Track: Accelerating Solutions
Advocate For Greener Vehicles
Electric Cars, Hybrid Cars, Efficient Trucks
I will assess the vehicles used by my company or college and advocate for a purchasing policy focused on electric and fuel-efficient vehicles
Action Track: Accelerating Solutions
Support Microgeneration in Low Income Countries
Small Hydropower, Micro Wind Turbines, Microgrids
I will make a donation to a nonprofit that installs microgeneration in low income countries.
Action Track: Accelerating Solutions
Choose Renewable Energy or Purchase Renewable Energy Credits
Onshore Wind Turbines, Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaics
I will sign up for my utility company's clean/renewable energy option. If my utility does not offer one, I will purchase Renewable Energy Credits to match my usage.
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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Gian Ascione 4/30/2021 8:12 AMThanks everyone, I hope see you next year! -
REFLECTION QUESTIONHealth and Education Fund Family PlanningWhen family planning focuses on healthcare provision and meeting the expressed needs of women, it results in empowerment, equality, and well-being, and the benefits to the planet are side effects. Why is family planning an important civil rights consideration?
Gian Ascione 4/27/2021 6:17 PMWomen who grow up in big families under impoverished conditions tend to be underrepresented politically and tend to perpetuate their fate. As a result, they and their descendants have far fewer opportunities to improve their lot in life both economically AND politically. As opposed to being an endowed, inalienable birth-right, one's civil rights tend to track more closely with economic status. Alas it has long been thus, yet also, it was the very evil the American Experiment ostensibly set upon to demolish. -
Gian Ascione 4/27/2021 6:01 PMI DARE you to say the name of this scientist three times fast....
“The teen brain is like a car with a very strong engine,” says van Duijvenvoorde. “Its brakes just don’t work as well.” That’s not always a problem, she notes. But it could cause trouble if the car approaches a stoplight at high speed. -
Gian Ascione 4/26/2021 4:03 PMApril is nearly over--Earthmonth and National Poetry Month.
"and it was nearly done, this frail traveling coincidence;
and what it held stood ready to be loosed with all the power that being changed can give.
we slowed [our train] again, and as the tightened brakes took hold, there swelled
a sense of falling, like an arrow-shower sent out of sight,
somewhere becoming rain." -
Gian Ascione 4/26/2021 3:54 PMThe level of oxygen (O2) in Earth's atmosphere is about 21%. The level of oxygen in the Martian atmosphere is 0.174%
There is no planet B. -
Gian Ascione 4/24/2021 8:22 AM"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
Herman Melville -
Gian Ascione 4/21/2021 1:20 PM
Number of planets in the universe on which such a creature exists: 1 -
Gian Ascione 4/21/2021 10:53 AMAn acre of corn gives off about 3,000-4,000 gallons of water each day, and a large oak tree can transpire 40,000 gallons per year. -
Gian Ascione 4/20/2021 6:23 PMthe First "Green Generation" was (thankfully) not the last.
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Gian Ascione 4/20/2021 6:18 PMFirst Earth Day: September 1969. Senator Nelson of Wisconsin called for a national teach-in about the environment. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) had primed the nation through the 1960s, but twin disasters in 1969 really brought the issues to people’s attention. A major oil spill covered California’s beaches in January. The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, which had a tendency to burn because it was so polluted, caught fire again.