Marguerite Boyadjian
5/01/2019 1:16 PM
I often go to work and the grocery store and I could choose two days a week to drive to the grocery store with my friend bella
Marguerite Boyadjian
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Marguerite's actions
Women and Girls
Research Barriers to Participation and Representation
#6 Educating Girls, #7 Family Planning, #62 Women Smallholders
I will spend at least 6 minutes learning more about the barriers to women's equal participation and representation around the world.
Buildings and Cities
Explore Other Buildings and Cities Solutions
All Buildings and Cities Solutions
I will spend at least 8 minutes researching other Drawdown Buildings and Cities Solutions.
Buildings and Cities
Go for a Daily Walk
#54 Walkable Cities
I will take a walk for 30 minutes each day and take note of the infrastructure that makes walking more or less enjoyable, accessible, and possible.
Food
Composting
#60 Composting, #3 Reduced Food Waste
I will start a compost bin where I live.
Food
Explore Other Food Solutions
All Food Solutions
I will spend at least 10 minutes researching other Drawdown Food Solutions.
Transport
Try Carpooling
#75 Ridesharing
I will commute by carpool 30 mile(s) per day and avoid sending up to 12.12 lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.
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REFLECTION QUESTIONTransport Try CarpoolingList 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?
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REFLECTION QUESTIONFood Explore Other Food SolutionsWhat did you find out? What is the most interesting fact you learned?
Marguerite Boyadjian 5/01/2019 12:45 PM- These are some solutions I found on Drawdown:
- FARMLAND RESTORATION – a set of processes for restoring degraded, abandoned land to productivity and biosequestration.
- IMPROVED RICE CULTIVATION – a set of practices to reduce methane emissions from paddy rice production using alternate wet and dry periods and other strategies.
- MANAGED GRAZING – a set of practices that sequester carbon in grassland soils by adjusting stocking rates, timing, and intensity of grazing.
- MULTISTRATA AGROFORESTRY – a perennial cropping system featuring multiple layers of trees and other perennial crops, with high biosequestration impacts.
- NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT – a reduction in the overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, resulting in reduced emissions of nitrous oxide.
- REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE – an annual crop production system that includes at least four of the following practices: green manure, compost application, organic production, cover crops, crop rotation, and/or reduced tillage.
- SILVOPASTURE – the addition of trees to pastures for increased productivity and biosequestration.
- SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION – an improved smallholder rice production technique that uses wider spacing non-flooded periods, compost application, and other strategies for emissions reduction and improved yields.
- TREE INTERCROPPING – an annual crop production system that integrates trees for increased yields, ecosystem services, and biosequestration.
- TROPICAL STAPLE TREES – the production of trees that produce staple crops (starch, protein, oils), to replace some annual cropping with trees providing biosequestration.
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REFLECTION QUESTIONFood CompostingProducing food that goes uneaten squanders many resources—seeds, water, energy, land, fertilizer, hours of labor, financial capital. Which of these kinds of waste most motivates you to change your behavior regarding food waste? Why?
Marguerite Boyadjian 5/01/2019 12:42 PMI am motivated to change my behavior because of water being wasted. -
REFLECTION QUESTIONBuildings and Cities Go for a Daily WalkWhat have you noticed on your daily walks? What have you enjoyed? What infrastructure changes could make your walks more enjoyable or possible?
Marguerite Boyadjian 5/01/2019 12:41 PMI took a walk and I enjoyed fresh air. I enjoy being outside- makes me feel healthier. -
REFLECTION QUESTIONBuildings and Cities Explore Other Buildings and Cities SolutionsWhat did you find out? What is the most interesting fact you learned?
Marguerite Boyadjian 5/01/2019 12:40 PMDense urban human settlement – the cities of the world and the buildings and infrastructure that comprise them – account for a significant percentage of human energy use, mostly for heating and cooling; ergo, they are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. The rapid urbanization of humanity ushered in inefficient design of buildings and infrastructure, and Project Drawdown identified, measured, mapped and modeled several solutions that address the operating inefficiencies of dwelling in and using buildings, and of living in cities.