Hannah Delzer

Spring 2019 HON 190

"To make a difference!"

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
506 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

1.0

documentary

watched
UP TO

11

meatless or vegan meals

consumed
UP TO

35

miles

not traveled by car
UP TO

35

miles

traveled by carpool
UP TO

20

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

33

pounds of CO2

have been saved

Hannah's actions

Transport

Try Carpooling

#75 Ridesharing

I will commute by carpool 5 mile(s) per day and avoid sending up to 4.7 lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

COMPLETED 7
DAILY ACTIONS

Transport

Use Muscle Power

#49 Cars

I will cut my car trip mileage by only taking necessary trips, and I will only use muscle-powered transportation for all other trips.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Electricity Generation

Watch a Video about Methane Digesters

#30 Methane Digesters (large), #64 Methane Digesters (small)

I will watch a video about methane digesters (also commonly known as anaerobic digesters).

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Keep Track of Wasted Food

#3 Reduced Food Waste

I will keep a daily log of food I throw away during the EcoChallenge, either because it went bad before I ate it, I put too much on my plate, or it was scraps from food preparation.

COMPLETED 14
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Smaller Portions

#3 Reduced Food Waste

I will use smaller plates and/or serve smaller portions when dishing out food.

COMPLETED 13
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Reduce Animal Products

#4 Plant-Rich Diet

I will enjoy 1 meatless or vegan meal(s) each day of the challenge.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

#3 Reduced Food Waste

I will spend at least 15 minutes learning how to differentiate between sell by, use by, and best by dates.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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?

REFLECTION QUESTION
Electricity Generation Watch a Video about Methane Digesters

What does your vision of a sustainable community look like? What would need to be changed in order for such vision to become reality?

Hannah Delzer 4/17/2019 9:49 AM

After doing a tour of campus, I realized that overall our campus community is a pretty sustainable place. However, when I am at my home community I believe that we are less sustainable. If we could include more things like tree planting, more options to shop local (for food and goods), and adding more renewable energy sources such as solar panels. This would complete my vision of a sustainable community that is friendly and green.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transport Try Carpooling

List some of the places you frequent often (work, grocery store, natural areas). Could you choose one or two days a week to schedule driving with a friend, neighbor or co-worker to these places?

Hannah Delzer 4/17/2019 9:42 AM

-To Work
-Places on Campus (if bad weather)
-Grocery Store
-Church
-Social Outings

For the most part my friends and I already do our best to pick each other up and drive together. A few places that I could do this more with is work and the grocery store.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Reduce Animal Products

In your opinion, what contributes to people in North America eating more meat than any other countries? What does this say about North American values and ways of living?

Hannah Delzer 4/17/2019 9:40 AM

I think that America eats more meat than any other country because it is easily accessible and part of our culture. Americans typically consume meat, vegetables, fruit, grains, and dairy with each meal. We were taught at a young age that all of these food groups need to be in our diet and since Americans are bad at portions, we eat more meat than necessary.

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Hannah Delzer 4/07/2019 4:08 PM

Daily Eco-Friendly Reminder: When at a restaurant, try to reduce the amount of straws in the ocean by asking for no straw or by bringing your own reusable one. As of right now there are about 8.3 BILLION plastic straws laying on shorelines around the world.

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Hannah Delzer 4/06/2019 12:13 PM

Daily Eco-Friendly Reminder: Remember to shut your lights off when you leave a room, even if it is just for a little bit!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

How does knowing the difference between use by, sell by, and best by dates empower you to make better decisions?

Hannah Delzer 4/05/2019 7:23 AM

By understanding the difference of these dates it can help keep me from wasting perfectly good food and could prevent me from eating something that could make me sick. Knowing that use-by is a must follow date, sell-by is directed towards the retailers to have their item sold by, and best-by is a suggestion of when it should be eaten by, is great knowledge to know when both buying and consuming.

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Hannah Delzer 4/05/2019 7:14 AM

Daily Eco-Friendly Reminder: When leaving your dorm room, be sure to unplug things from your outlet and shut off all lights when you leave! Just by doing small actions like these we can save so much electricity and our Earth!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transport Use Muscle Power

How do your transportation choices affect your engagement in your community? Does your experience or enjoyment differ while walking, riding transit, biking or driving?

Hannah Delzer 4/04/2019 3:48 PM

Being in college it is easy to change to walking more places than driving. By walking more it allows you to become more engaged with the community because it is an easy 5-20 minutes each time that you can spend bonding and communicating with those within your community. My experience is that I have been able to grow closer with my friends/strangers and also receive the health benefits walking has to offer.

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Hannah Delzer 4/04/2019 3:39 PM

Daily Eco-Friendly Reminder: Ditch the plastic water bottle! According to the Water Project, about 80% of water bottles are not recycled. One option is to cut the plastic completely and use a reusable one, or get more than one use out of the plastic bottle you are using.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Keep Track of Wasted Food

An average American throws out about 240 lbs of food per year. The average family of four spends $1,500 a year on food that they throw out. Where would you rather use this money?

Hannah Delzer 4/03/2019 5:39 PM

Seeing the amount $1,500 is insane! If I could spend this money on anything it would probably go towards a vacation, hopefully somewhere on a beach! However, knowing my mom, she would probably recommend I put it towards paying tuition, which would be one HECK ;) of a yearly scholarship!!

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