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Elizabeth Lopez-Hernandez

Team ESR 141

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 232 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    153
    gallons of water
    have been saved
  • UP TO
    220
    minutes
    spent exercising
  • UP TO
    465
    minutes
    spent outdoors
  • UP TO
    3.1
    pounds
    food waste prevented
  • UP TO
    10
    pounds
    waste composted
  • UP TO
    6.4
    pounds of CO2
    have been saved

Elizabeth's actions

Community

Create opportunities for resilience amongst climate change

As past of my job I have co-created disaster preparedness workshop in which we address how climate change is exacerbated a certain weather event and how that is affecting health. We also touch on emergency preparedness. For July, the workshop focus on Wildfires & air quality. We talked about mental health and how air quality affects our health and also how climate change is affecting our mental health and wildfires and air.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Nature

Do Nature Activities

I will engage in nature-based activities alone, or with my friends or family, for 60 minute(s) each day. (This can be anything from going on a walk or hike, to noticing the leaves changing color, to reading a book with nature themes.)

COMPLETED 5
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Compost Food Waste

I will avoid sending up to .69 lbs (.31 kg) of food waste to the landfill each day by composting my food or learning how to.

COMPLETED 10
DAILY ACTIONS

Nature

Go for a Daily Walk

I will take a 20-minute walk outside each day.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Weekly Meal Planning

I will reduce food waste and save money by planning a weekly menu, only buying the ingredients I need.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Learn About & Practice Sustainable Fashion

I will learn about sustainable fashion and begin trying to practice it in my own life.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

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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?

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Nature Do Nature Activities
    What did you observe while spending time outside -- through sight, sound, smell and/or touch?

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    Elizabeth Lopez-Hernandez 7/25/2022 7:25 PM
    For this activity, I decided to try floating with my siblings! It was soo much and we even saw some ducklings and a pretty big heron!
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Waste Compost Food Waste
    New to composting? Be sure to check out the action resource links to learn tips and more about it. As you transition from throwing food away to composting, what do you notice about how much you are tossing? How will you use your compost once it is ready?

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    Elizabeth Lopez-Hernandez 7/25/2022 7:17 PM
    My brother is really into composting and I was having a hard time remembering not to throw away my food waste in the garbage instead of the compost. But because I knew I had to report my food waste, I was better about sorting my food waste. 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Nature Go for a Daily Walk
    How do you experience your neighborhood or city differently when walking instead of driving?

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    Elizabeth Lopez-Hernandez 7/25/2022 7:13 PM
    I live on the east of Gresham and we only have 1 park near me plus two middle middle school with pretty shady trails and in the last four weeks they've been my workout area! I found out the I really enjoyed getting in a morning walk before I start my day and my dog, too! Before this eco challenge I used to hiking when I had time and usually on the weekends. But now when I miss my morning walk my day just isn't the same.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food Weekly Meal Planning
    An average American throws out about 240 lbs of food per year. The average family of four in the US spends $1,500 a year on food that they throw out. Does this surprise you? Where would you rather use this money?

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    Elizabeth Lopez-Hernandez 7/25/2022 7:08 PM
    I have planning my meals out since the start of the Eco challenge and what I have noticed is that I've bought less groceries and have sticked to my list and have managed to eat almost all of my groceries.In the last 3 weeks I also noticed that I have consumed less meat and I found new TikTok accounts to help me cook meat alternative dishes that Mexican cuisine. I was surprised to see the many different ways that tofu can be prepared and mix of spices  that give it an almost meat like taste.