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April 1 - April 30, 2021
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Gian Ascione

High Meadow Hudson Valley

"From silent spring to raucous summer"

POINTS TOTAL

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  • 1,507 TOTAL

participant impact

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    5.0
    donations
    made
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    1.0
    energy audit
    conducted
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    1.0
    lightbulb
    replaced
  • UP TO
    16
    locally sourced meals
    consumed
  • UP TO
    28
    minutes
    spent learning
  • UP TO
    10
    minutes
    spent outdoors
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    1.0
    person
    helped
  • UP TO
    11
    public officials or leaders
    contacted

Gian's actions

Health and Education

Fund Family Planning

Health and Education

I will donate to supply a community with reproductive health supplies.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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.

COMPLETED 12
DAILY ACTIONS

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.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health and Education

Make School More Affordable

Health and Education

I will raise funds to help make school affordable for girls around the world.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Buildings

Plan to Insulate

Insulation

I will find out how to make my home more energy efficient through better insulation and weatherization.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Composting

Composting, Reduced Food Waste

I will start a compost bin where I live.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Action Track: Accelerating Solutions

Donate

Improved Clean Cookstoves

I will donate to nonprofits that install clean cookstoves in low-income countries.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

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    Gian Ascione 4/30/2021 8:12 AM
    Thanks everyone, I hope see you next year!
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health and Education Fund Family Planning
    When 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?

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    Gian Ascione 4/27/2021 6:17 PM
    Women 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.

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    Gian Ascione 4/27/2021 6:01 PM
    I 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.

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    Gian Ascione 4/26/2021 4:03 PM
    April 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."

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    Gian Ascione 4/26/2021 3:54 PM
    The 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.

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    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

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    Gian Ascione 4/21/2021 1:20 PM

    Number of planets in the universe on which such a creature exists: 1

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    Gian Ascione 4/21/2021 10:53 AM
    An 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.

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    Gian Ascione 4/20/2021 6:23 PM

    the First "Green Generation" was (thankfully) not the last.


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    Gian Ascione 4/20/2021 6:18 PM
    First 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.