April 3 - April 24, 2019

Danaika Desir

"To do my best to help protect the environment in which I live. To give back to the communities that played a role in raising me to be the person that I am today."

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
1,136 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

133

conversations

with people
UP TO

1.0

documentary

watched
UP TO

2.0

donations

made
UP TO

600

miles

not traveled by car
UP TO

600

miles

traveled by carpool
UP TO

1,485

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

3,377

pounds of CO2

have been saved
UP TO

40

zero-waste meals

consumed

Danaika's actions

Action Track: Social Justice

Fund Family Planning

#7 Family Planning

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

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Materials

Properly Dispose of Refrigerants

#1 Refrigerant Management

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning how to properly dispose of my refrigerator, freezer, and other refrigerants at the end of their useful lives.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Learn More about Silvopasture

#9 Silvopasture

I will spend at least 20 minutes watching videos and/or reading about the environmental benefits of silvopasture.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Learn More about Regenerative Agriculture

#11 Regenerative Agriculture

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning about the need for more regenerative agriculture.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Learn the Truth About Expiration Dates

#3 Reduced Food Waste

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning how to differentiate between sell by, use by, and best by dates.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Donate

#21 Clean Cookstoves

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

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Support Nutrient Management

#65 Nutrient Management

I will research and support local farmers who have made the decision to not use synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Electricity Generation

Learn More about Biomass

#34 Biomass

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning more about the energy generation potential of biomass.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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

Electricity Generation

Explore Other Electricity Generation Solutions

All Electricity Generation Solutions

I will spend at least 30 minutes researching other Drawdown Electricity Generation Solutions.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Explore Other Food Solutions

All Food Solutions

I will spend at least 20 minutes researching other Drawdown Food Solutions.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Electricity Generation

Spread the Word about Energy Alternatives

All Electricity Generation Solutions

I will research and tell 7 people each day about the benefits of alternative energy sources like wind turbines, solar energy, geothermal energy, and methane digesters.

COMPLETED 19
DAILY ACTIONS

Electricity Generation

Learn More About Geothermal Energy

#18 Geothermal

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning more about the energy generation potential of geothermal energy and consider investing in this technology.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Electricity Generation

Learn More about Micro Wind

#76 Micro Wind

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning more about the energy generation potential of Micro Wind.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Electricity Generation

Learn More about Wave and Tidal Energy

#29 Wave and Tidal

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning more about the energy generation potential of wave and tidal energy.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Transport

Try Carpooling

#75 Ridesharing

I will commute by carpool 30 mile(s) per day and avoid sending up to 168.87 lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

COMPLETED 20
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Zero-waste Cooking

#3 Reduced Food Waste

I will cook 2 meal(s) with zero-waste each day

COMPLETED 20
DAILY ACTIONS

Women and Girls

Research Barriers to Participation and Representation

#6 Educating Girls, #7 Family Planning, #62 Women Smallholders

I will spend at least 30 minutes learning more about the barriers to women's equal participation and representation around the world.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Smaller Portions

#3 Reduced Food Waste

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

COMPLETED 20
DAILY ACTIONS

Women and Girls

Support Women-Owned Businesses

#62 Women Smallholders

I will spend 60 minutes each day researching women-owned businesses I can support when shopping.

COMPLETED 20
DAILY ACTIONS

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?

Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 9:28 PM

Spreading awareness about composting at Eco
fest

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Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 9:25 PM

Planting in the garden !!!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Support Nutrient Management

How does environmental quality influence your sense of community?

Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 9:10 PM

A place with good environmental quality is a place where the community works together to make sure that they don't do things that will harm the environment but things that will help the environment. Hence I feel that good environmental quality will increase my sense of community since I will always have to work with my community to keep it that way.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Learn More about Regenerative Agriculture

Clean air, clean water and healthy food are three reasons to care about regenerative agriculture. What are some other reasons?

Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 9:05 PM

Increase biodiversity, enriched soils, improved waterbeds and reverse atmospheric accumulations are other reasons why regenerative agriculture is important.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Learn More about Silvopasture

Had you heard of the term "silvopasture" before now? After learning more about it, what do you think is the biggest advantage of silvopasture?

Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 9:01 PM

I never heard of it before. It's main advantage is that it increases farmland utilization, many products can be grown on the same acreage .

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Donate

How are environmental issues like black carbon and other emissions from cooking fires or rudimentary cookstoves also human health and social justice issues? Why do these issues matter to you?

Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 8:59 PM

Those issues lead to toxic substances that when inhaled by human beings increases their chances to develop certain diseases. This is a social issue and a health issue because it is harmful to the well beings of living things. I am a human beings and this substances are bad for me too so getting rid of them is important to me.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Explore Other Food Solutions

What did you find out? What is the most interesting fact you learned?

Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 8:56 PM

A possible food solution can be to give rewards to farmers that grow healthy foods so that they can be encourage to grow foods that wont harm people. There are several possible food solutions that are inexpensive and should be use more.

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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?

Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 8:49 PM

It allows me to reduce waste. Before I use to think that the food was bad if the sell by date or the best by date took place. Now I know that i can eat the food until its use by date.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Electricity Generation Spread the Word about Energy Alternatives

What inspiration and wisdom can you gather from your family, faith, or community traditions that would help you in both communicating about and addressing our most pressing energy issues?

Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 8:46 PM

My family always taught me how important it is is to protect the environment . Growing up, my parents always made sure that I know to stand up and speak out for everything that I believe in. They also taught me how to use sustainable energy methods such as solar power energy and how important it is. I can use both the knowledge and the strength and passion that my family gave me to address energy issues.

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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?

Danaika Desir 4/24/2019 8:41 PM

A sustainable community to me is one where people choose to walk or use their bikes as their most common form of transportation and carpool when a car is the only option. A sustainable community would be one where most vehicles use solar or wind generated electricity. A place where farms do not use petroleum,chemical based fertilizers and herbicides. A place where the air and the water is clean, where the soils and the food are healthy . Finally a place where this is minimum if any waste.

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