Erin Cannan
"Helping students use the liberal arts and civic engagement to problem solve for the future. "
POINTS TOTAL
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participant impact
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UP TO2.0donationsmade
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UP TO17locally sourced mealsconsumed
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UP TO34meatless or vegan mealsconsumed
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UP TO390minutesspent exercising
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UP TO120minutesspent learning
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UP TO558minutesspent outdoors
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UP TO2.0public officials or leaderscontacted
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UP TO10treesplanted
Erin's actions
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Mulch the Base of Trees and Plants
Farm Irrigation Efficiency
I will prevent water runoff and increase absorbency by mulching the base of trees and plants in my yard.
Transportation
Go for a Daily Walk
Walkable Cities
I will take a walk for 60 minutes each day and take note of the infrastructure that makes walking more or less enjoyable, accessible, and possible.
Transportation
Express My Support For Walkable Cities
Walkable Cities
I will find out who in my city makes decisions that impact neighborhood walkability and express my support for better walking infrastructure.
Action Track: Climate Resilience
Support Businesses Owned by Women, BIPOC, or Immigrants
Sustainable Intensification for Smallholders
I will spend 60 minutes researching businesses owned by women, immigrants, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color that I can support when shopping.
Action Track: Climate Resilience
Plant Trees
Temperate Forest Restoration
I will plant 10 tree(s) in my community, public parks, or backyard.
Health and Education
Connect With A Nonprofit
Health and Education
I will connect with a local nonprofit working on issues affecting women, girls, and/or trans and nonbinary people in my community, and find out how I can get involved or become a member.
Health and Education
Fund Family Planning
Health and Education
I will donate to supply a community with reproductive health supplies.
Electricity
Communicate the need to Price Carbon
Thousands of economists agree that we need to put a price on carbon pollution. There's a 'carbon cashback' bill in Congress introduced this week in the House that will do that - returning money to households. We need to mobilize around this as a best first step (and do everything else in this challenge, too!)
Action Track: Accelerating Solutions
Support Indigenous Peoples' Land Management
Indigenous Peoples' Forest Tenure
I will donate to Native American Rights Fund, which protects tribal natural resources and environmental rights and promotes Native American Human Rights.
Action Track: Climate Resilience
Support a Community Garden
Multiple Solutions
I will support a community garden by volunteering, donating, or advocating for a new or existing one.
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Composting
Composting, Reduced Food Waste
I will start a compost bin where I live.
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Smaller Portions
Reduced Food Waste
I will use smaller plates and/or serve smaller portions when dishing out food.
Action Track: Climate Resilience
Tend A Garden
I will tend to a garden, or prepare for one, each day using sustainable gardening practices.
Action Track: Accelerating Solutions
Advocate For More Packaging Options
Multiple Industry Solutions
I will advocate for alternatives to single-use packaging at local grocery stores, markets, at work, or on campus.
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Attend GATHER Screening on April 18th, 7PM.
Kick off Earth week with a screening of Gather, "an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide."
Industry
I will be Less Material in a Material World
If I live on campus I'll follow FreeUse on Insta (@bard.freeuse) (and I'll donate there as well) in support of a circular economy. Away from Bard I will find sustainable clothing options, avoiding fast fashion retailers, valuing long-lived clothing and supporting Bard-born orgs like Thrift to Fight and Cahoots.
Transportation
Count Your Steps & Share
Count how many steps it takes to get from one point to another on campus or where you live. For example, count how many steps it takes to get to Kline from Robbins. DM the BardE3 or Bard Office of Sustainability Insta with the number of steps you counted and we’ll use the info to make posts about walkability! @bardsustainability @barde3bos
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Compost Food Scraps
Compost at Kline, dorm composting bins, or returning food scraps to Kline.
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.
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Reduce Animal Products
Plant-Rich Diets
I will enjoy 1 meatless or vegan meal(s) each day of the challenge.
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Attend a Screening of GATHER
Learn about Indigenous Land Management, Regenerative Agriculture and Food Sovereignty at a screening of Gather, "an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide."
Health and Education
Learn via Solve Climate by 2030
Sign up to listen to Solve Climate by 2030 (live on April 7 or recorded)
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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Erin Cannan 5/01/2021 5:00 AMAs with anything, the practice of incorporating knowledge and habits into our daily routine is both enriching and can make a difference. A shout out to our intrepid coach Laurie Husted whose guidance and encouragement is changing the world. -
Erin Cannan 4/28/2021 8:31 AMSpent class today co-facilitating a workshop with a colleague focusing on Emotional and Cultural Intelligence. So much of sustainability work will require all of us to hone in on these skills. -
Erin Cannan 4/23/2021 7:52 AMGreat start to the day at the Council for Inclusive Excellence meeting where report outs touched on so many of the UNSDGs!! Incredible working groups -- shout out to the CIE!!! -
Erin Cannan 4/22/2021 6:58 AMSpoke at a workshop this morning with students from around the world planning projects in their communities. Talked about Health and Education Drawdown Solution for Gender Equity. A key to climate solutions that needs more attention.
SOLUTION SUMMARY*
Educating Girls
Education lays a foundation for vibrant lives for girls and women, their families, and their communities. It also is one of the most powerful levers available for avoiding emissions by curbing population growth. Women with more years of education have fewer and healthier children, and actively manage their reproductive health.
Educated girls realize higher wages and greater upward mobility, contributing to economic growth. Their rates of maternal mortality drop, as do mortality rates of their babies. They are less likely to marry as children or against their will. They have lower incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria. Their agricultural plots are more productive and their families better nourished.
Education also shores up resilience and equips girls and women to face the impacts of climate change. They can be more effective stewards of food, soil, trees, and water, even as nature’s cycles change. They have greater capacity to cope with shocks from natural disasters and extreme weather events.
Today, there are economic, cultural, and safety-related barriers that impede 62 million girls around the world from realizing their right to education. Key strategies to change that include:
- make school affordable;
- help girls overcome health barriers;
- reduce the time and distance to get to school; and
- make schools more girl-friendly.
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Family Planning
Securing women’s right to voluntary, high-quality family planning around the world would have powerful positive impacts on the health, welfare, and life expectancy of both women and their children. It also can affect greenhouse gas emissions.
225 million women in lower-income countries say they want the ability to choose whether and when to become pregnant but lack the necessary access to contraception. The need persists in some high-income countries as well, including the United States where 45 percent of pregnancies are unintended. Currently, the world faces a $5.3 billion funding shortfall for providing the access to reproductive healthcare that women say they want to have.
Carbon footprints are a common topic. Addressing population—how many feet are leaving their tracks—remains controversial despite widespread agreement that greater numbers place more strain on the planet.
Honoring the dignity of women and children through family planning is not about governments forcing the birth rate down (or up, through natalist policies). Nor is it about those in rich countries, where emissions are highest, telling people elsewhere to stop having children. When family planning focuses on healthcare provision and meeting women’s expressed needs, empowerment, equality, and well-being are the result; the benefits to the planet are side effects.
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Erin Cannan 4/21/2021 1:05 PMAttended the Rural Assembly Conference these last two days https://ruralassembly.org/.
Listening now to a panel with four indigenous women leaders at the Roundtable: Indian Country Response to Covid-19. I recommend you join the Rural Assembly to link to rural communities all over the country.
More about the Rural Assembly:
Rural people and places are frequently overlooked by policymakers, philanthropy, and mainstream media. Going forward, it will take thoughtful, consistent effort to restore rural voices to national conversations about how we create systems and policies that fully embrace all populations and geographies.
We believe rural America has a vital contribution to make to our national narrative and decision-making, and that rural leaders need more tools and support to take on that endeavor. That is why the Rural Assembly is committed to strengthening rural visibility and presence across convening, media, and policy platforms, from local to national.
We also believe that building relationships and trust is the key to understanding and honoring our interconnectedness. That is why the Rural Assembly is committed to fostering relationships within and across rural places that lead to better solutions and a less polarized nation. We believe people and places that have been marginalized must instead be at the center of these relationships.
The rural experience is diverse and complex. By amplifying rural voices and leadership, the Rural Assembly ensures that rural people and places are actively shaping a more inclusive nation as culture-bearers, practitioners, influencers, and decision-makers.
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Erin Cannan 4/19/2021 6:43 AMHosted youth activist and indigenous filmmaker Kynan Tegar and executive director Paul Redman for https://ifnotusthenwho.me/. Kynan raised awareness about his community's fight to secure land rights. -
Erin Cannan 4/16/2021 11:47 AM21,000 steps today! No driving. -
Erin Cannan 4/16/2021 5:45 AMHome compost is starting to make its magic and all my gardens have now been mulched with compost from a local organize nursery. Shout out to Phantom Gardner! -
Erin Cannan 4/01/2021 7:31 AMDespite the rain today - I am tending my garden. Here comes the garlic.-
Erin Cannan 4/01/2021 8:27 AMInviting my whole class to join our team. Hopefully we will have participants from 8 countries. Wish me luck.
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