Dan Weiser

Woodstock Day School

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
994 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

1.0

documentary

watched
UP TO

90

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

77

gallons of water

have been saved
UP TO

18

zero-waste meals

consumed
UP TO

28

meatless or vegan meals

consumed
UP TO

15

public officials or leaders

contacted

Dan's actions

Food

Reduce Animal Products

#4 Plant-Rich Diet

I will enjoy 2 meatless or vegan meal(s) each day of the challenge.

COMPLETED 14
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Zero-waste Cooking

#3 Reduced Food Waste

I will cook 3 meal(s) with zero-waste each day

COMPLETED 6
DAILY ACTIONS

Materials

Properly Dispose of Refrigerants

#1 Refrigerant Management

I will spend at least 10 minutes learning how to properly dispose of my refrigerator, freezer, and other refrigerants at the end of their useful lives.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Women and Girls

Research Barriers to Participation and Representation

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

I will spend at least 15 minutes learning more about the barriers to women's equal participation and representation around the world.

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

Communicate With My Elected Officials

#2 Wind Turbines (Onshore)

I will write or call 15 elected official(s) telling them not to support fossil fuel subsidies and instead support wind energy generation.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Women and Girls

Start a Social Media Campaign

#6 Educating Girls

Through social media, I will raise awareness about gender inequity in education by sharing the information found in the links below.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Materials

Install a Toilet Bank

#46 Water Saving - Home

I will reduce the amount of water flushed and save up to 11 gallons (41 L) of water per day by installing a toilet tank bank.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Action Track: Social Justice

Learn about Local Indigenous Practices

#39 Indigenous Peoples' Land Management

I will spend at least 60 minutes learning how local indigenous tribes are caring for the land by attending a training, workshop, or presentation.

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?

Dan Weiser 4/24/2019 5:34 AM
Last day of the eco challenge!!! lets go team

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Action Track: Social Justice

What did you learn about indigenous peoples' land management that you can apply in your own life?
Dan Weiser 4/24/2019 5:31 AM
Well we learned about the qualities that first Americans looked for when picking locations for a village. I think having a historical perspective about how the map developed is extremely important and that understanding can inform future sustainable choices. In my own life i can advocate for cities to recognize their history and specifically get rid of the sections that were cemented over to restore the areas to their original state.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Women and Girls

How are people responding to the statistics you're sharing on social media?
Dan Weiser 4/17/2019 5:03 PM
I do not get much social media attention :( i think i posted on my facebook for the first time in many months - so my reach is limited with respect to social media attention.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Materials

How can your region/household prepare for changing water situations in order to become more resilient?
Dan Weiser 4/17/2019 5:03 PM
Well - in this area we area pretty water abundant. I think one of the most important things we can do is to keep our water clean. We should be testing rigorously. With that said I think we also need to take a good hard look at the regulations around water. Towns should be pushing composting toilets more. As well as greywater systems. The more independent each home and business can become the more resilient we will be.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Electricity Generation

What inspires you to act on sustainable energy and other energy issues?
Dan Weiser 4/17/2019 4:32 PM
I think energy is the centerpiece. If we can move to decentralized renewable energy sources it will dramatically change our infrastructure and carbon emissions. Plug in vehicles would make more sense as well as other plug in appliances. This seems like THE main answer.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Women and Girls

What are some of the barriers that exist to women's equal participation and/or representation in your community?
Dan Weiser 4/11/2019 7:34 AM
Too many. We live in a male dominated society where laws, norms, and general infrastructure are designed by and made for the advancement of men first. From unequal pay, to unequal treatment with respect to reproductive choice to not enough men staying home with kids to share the joys and burden of raising young children. Its bad, and deep and historic and will take intentional effort to correct.

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Dan Weiser 4/11/2019 7:30 AM
I feel like i could be doing more.....

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Electricity Generation

What does your vision of a sustainable community look like? What would need to be changed in order for such vision to become reality?
Dan Weiser 4/11/2019 7:28 AM
This is a massive question! My vision is that we live based more locally to start. If we are all working together and focused more on community and mutual aid we would have significantly less issues to begin with. Second is no plastic. Third is renewable energy. We should have solar panels everywhere, wind turbines, hydro dams, and plug in cars. Fourth is we need to update our infrastructure to support more walking and biking. Fifth is we need to focus on local food production. We need to take the means of our own survival back from corporations who try to centralize control over these elements of our lives. If communities banded together to take control of their own destiny and actually produced things locally we would be massively more sustainable.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Materials

How do you address your own feelings of concern, fear or despair about climate change?
Dan Weiser 4/09/2019 10:32 AM
I teach about climate change. I woke up one day when i was younger very worried about pollution and climate change and recognized my own ignorance. So - i went back to school and got a degree in science. Then for the last 10 years i have been teaching about climate and the environment with hopes that the next generation will make real change.

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Dan Weiser 4/05/2019 6:16 AM
I am currently showing my 6th grade class how to do drawdown!!!!!

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