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April 1 - April 30, 2021

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Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
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To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?


  • Rhys Ellis's avatar
    Rhys Ellis 4/30/2021 7:17 PM
    Great job everybody! This was our highest-scoring day yet!

  • Siddhartha  Lama's avatar
    Siddhartha Lama 4/30/2021 6:41 PM
    This Year eco challenge was really great, I really enjoyed this even though I don't attend the school anymore and I look forward to joining the HMS team every year for the eco challenge. :P
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Transportation Conduct Virtual Meetings
    How can you ensure that your virtual meetings honor your values and your company's culture?

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    Siddhartha Lama 4/30/2021 6:39 PM
    In the drawdown book they include telepresence as a possible solution which I thought was pretty interesting. it helps slow down travel, meetings, ect. which is really good so we can reduce the overall carbon food print of society, at the moment this is basically zoom which we all know that it's nice but after like 20 minutes it is not a great experience, but I think that we should do online meeting's for people who live farther away who still wish to participate in meetings, events and other things. 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Action Track: Accelerating Solutions Choose Renewable Energy or Purchase Renewable Energy Credits
    Your utility company is able to tell you your average energy usage. Ask them how your energy usage compares to others in your ZIP code, region, and/or state. What other steps can you take each day to reduce your electricity usage?

    Rhys Ellis's avatar
    Rhys Ellis 4/30/2021 6:37 PM
    Wearing a jacket during the winter to reduce heating always helps because heating and cooling use so much energy. It also helps to unplug things and turn off lights.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Smaller Portions
    While dishing food out, we tend to load our plates with more than we need. Using smaller plates helps to mitigate this. Aside from the environmental benefits, what other benefits might come from eating/serving smaller portions?

    Siddhartha  Lama's avatar
    Siddhartha Lama 4/30/2021 6:37 PM
    For me I feel when my stomach is 80% full that's a good amount of food, or just when you have that thought, "should I eat more, I can but I don't really feel like it" something like that is a good sign that you have eaten a good portion. 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Land Sinks Plant Trees
    How is planting trees good for your mental, physical, and spiritual health?

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    Siddhartha Lama 4/30/2021 6:35 PM
    Peatland's was a really interesting matter especially because peatlands make up something like 3% of land on earth, but they make up for 1/3 or 33.333% of the carbon dioxide storage in the entire planet. And lot's of these place's are being used for growing food, expanding cities ect, and that if that happens that would release waaaay tooo much co2 into the atmoshpier. 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Industry Research the Climate Impact of Refrigerants
    What did you learn about the climate impact of refrigerants? How do supermarkets contribute to this impact?

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    Siddhartha Lama 4/30/2021 6:33 PM
    I was really startled when I found out how much refrigeration contributes to climate change and how much much carbon dioxide it could save if we have better alternatives. 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Transportation Explore Other Transportation Solutions
    What did you find out? What is the most interesting fact you learned?

    Siddhartha  Lama's avatar
    Siddhartha Lama 4/30/2021 6:32 PM
    Transportation was a very interesting and a very complicated topic about climate change when I was researching  the topic, especially when it come's to the battery and how the ingredients inside the batteries how so interconnected, the biggest challenges when it come's to transportation in particular was the battery weight and how larger thing's require much much much larger batteries and how these materials are getting sourced, and the complications with large companies getting these materials from middle men companies that have mine's in other countries and the challenges with surrounding cobalt in particular, because these people are being exploited, insanely underpaid, like really really underpaid, and it's not like we can just stop using these materials because they are required in the solutions, but the other challenge is that because many organizations are making this issue very clear to the companies which is a great thing, the possible unintended consequence is that the companies will start looking to source these materials in other countries were the labor laws are much stronger and less opportunity for exploitation for business or for their reputation, and what happens is all these people who were digging the materials for these large middle men who sold it to even larger companies, the people digging these materials are going to out of work and their already in very very very bad levels of poverty and even if the job they have at the moment is inhumane they will have not many other options of income and their could be large number's of deaths from starvation and other caused deaths due to no income. That is the most difficult and largest problem that I found while doing transportation research, all other aspects like battery technology and thing's like that is more "first world country issues" but the mineral issue is really complex and their are many good possible solution proposed which is a good thing. 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food, Agriculture, and Land Use Eat Mindfully
    Mindful eating is healthier for us than eating with distractions. How does your eating experience differ when practicing mindfulness?

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    Siddhartha Lama 4/30/2021 6:20 PM
    I'm kinda slowly noticing that when I eat more slowly and with a little more awareness that the food tastes better, I never new why food's that I had very infrequently tasted so good, and I kinda realized that when I eat food's that I don't get very often I 1, eat slowly and actually savor the food, 2 be more mindful of the ingredients, tastes, ect. So with this logic you just try you're best to implement it into every day life. Like most thing's in life, "much easier said than done".

  • Rhys Ellis's avatar
    Rhys Ellis 4/30/2021 4:57 PM
    I hope everyone learned some new things and was able to start some practices that they can implement in their daily lives all of the time.