Today I went to a first foods celebration with the Rock Creek band.  The foods were totally local sourced -- salmon, local desert parsleys, choke cherries, bitterroot, huckleberries and even water was honored.  And shared with gratitude!

I really like this idea of maximizing energy and use from waste products.  This adds to the vision of a sustainable community -- best scenario would be no waste and makes its own energy and clean water.  Shades of the bubble cities of science fiction.

I am part of visioning a co housing development that hopes to grow some of our own food and share electric vehicles, tools and skills.  Embracing our interdependence and valuing diversity can open new more efficient ways of accomplishing group tasks. Hopefully everyone can do what they love and be productive!

Change from focus on immediate expense to focus on long term rewards and moving toward wholeness in our perspectives instead of individual benefits.

I do eat meat, but have given up dairy -- now wondering what are the impacts of my milk alternatives (coconut or almond milk)?   I am eating 2 -3 vegan meals a week encouraged by the Challenge and creating a habit to be more and more aware of these daily choices.

I don't drink coffee, but do buy occasional red meat when it is in the last chance bin.  Doing my part to decrease waste.

My area lies in the Cascade Mountain range and is heavily forested.  As the years of drought and low snow pack add up, the health of the forests is threatened by insect infestation and forest fires.  In fact one careless spark has destroyed 50,000 acres of 100 year old forest two years ago.

I was appreciating a large deciduous tree out my window -- not yet leafed out for spring.  What if trees could no longer muster the energy?  Our oxygen supply would be compromised.  We are part of a web and keep poking holes in it, expecting the net to continue to hold us up!

Hopefully less waste!  I even found a Best if Used by date on a water bottle.  We are really in trouble if water expires!!  Of course we are all exposed to the plastic toxicity that is leaching into the bottled water.

I am very concerned about plastics' life cycle as the mountains of undegradable materials mount up and end up inside other animals and oceans and us.  I find I am offended by people using bottled water and throwing away a container that can no longer be recycled by shipping overseas.  I wish we would ban the use of those plastics we do not have the capacity to recycle!  The upside is that these materials are in fact sequestering carbon, but like nuclear waste, we need to store them safely away.  (Melt them into roadways??)

This is a trip across the country to attend a conference in W Virginia.  Instead of a thoughtless expensive blimp and big CO2 balloon.  I will take the opportunity to travel on the ground and see the National Parks along the way.  Slowing down, touching the Earth.  Being where I am instead of anticipating where I am going.

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