Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston

There are many things I am doing or things available to me for "drawdown" that are not included in this eco-challenge program.  So, I would like to see options where participants write in their own challenges and points, so that more things would count toward this project.  I did learn that I should push myself to higher levels of...

Please call your members of Congress in support of HR 9, Climate Action Now.  It should pass the House next week as it has 224 co-sponsors, enough to win.   Curiously, my Rep, Sheila Jackson Lee is not a co-sponsor.  To look up your member of Congress  https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home The fun will be in the Senate.  Republicans have talked a...

Completed my challenge today to reduce junk mail.  To reduce junk mail (and conserve the resources used to produce & distribute it), opt out of unsolicited postal mail for ten years at https://www.dmachoice.org/. Costs $2 (almost nothing).

!!! This is so cool about electric school buses (see NYT article under resources for Research and Consider Switching to a Hybrid or Electric Vehicle #26 Electric Vehicles): "... Consolidated Edison, the local electric utility, which agreed to chip in another $100,000 per bus. In return, Con Ed gets the right to use the buses to help...

Less dependence on oil, cheaper fuel costs to owner, able to store electric power for the grid when EV not in use (see NYT article "The Wheels on These Buses...")

My husband was in an accident last week that totaled our vehicle (only injury was a seat belt abrasion and subsequent bruise) so I added researching electric vehicles to my challenge today - but only 60 minutes so I know I can complete it today (also got to finish reading The Overstory and return it to library today - wonderful writing about...

Didn't throw out some lemons with brown spots - sliced them up, let them "cook" in hot tea water, drank the tea and ate the lemons up peel and all. (Too bad my husband will have to compost a cantaloupe tomorrow - wish he'd learn how to tell if it's ripe before he cuts it open - I'll have to remind him that I can judge ripeness - that...

We need to stop urban sprawl so that they don't continue to hook up more houses further from the water source we all share.  The need to fix the water main leaks with very strong pipes that can withstand the increasingly severe droughts.

My husband and I have checked the few processed food items that we consume, and none contain palm oil.  I also learned that girl scout cookies now contain certified sustainably sourced palm oil.

I would like to take an old gas guzzler car off the road.