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Welcome to One Healthcare Ecochallenge!

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One Healthcare Ecochallenge
April 1 - April 30, 2024
Sally Wright's avatar

Sally Wright

PeaceHealth

"To be more conscientious about my own carbon footprint and how I am treating the earth. "

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 392 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    13
    meatless or vegan meals
    consumed
  • UP TO
    3.0
    trees
    planted
  • UP TO
    4.0
    hours
    volunteered
  • UP TO
    1.0
    advocacy action
    completed
  • UP TO
    40
    minutes
    spent being mindful and/or meditating
  • UP TO
    340
    minutes
    spent exercising

Sally's actions

In Our Communities

Plant Trees

I will plant 3 tree(s) in my community, public parks, or backyard. Check out resources for which tree species are best to plant in your area.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

In Our Communities

Volunteer in My Community

I will volunteer 4 hour(s) in my community during the challenge.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

At Home

Needs Vs. Wants

I will adopt a "Needs Vs. Wants" approach and only buy things I need.

COMPLETED 6
DAILY ACTIONS

At Work

Reduce Animal Products

I will enjoy 1 meatless meal(s) and/or 0 vegan meal(s) each day this week.

COMPLETED 7
DAILY ACTIONS

Health & Well-being

Mindfulness / Meditation Practice

I will spend 5 minute(s) per day practicing Mindfulness and/or Meditation.

COMPLETED 6
DAILY ACTIONS

Health & Well-being

Gratitude

I will write down three things every day that I am grateful for every day.

COMPLETED 5
DAILY ACTIONS

Health & Well-being

Exercise Daily

Exercise is a great stress blaster! I will exercise for 40 minute(s) each day.

COMPLETED 6
DAILY ACTIONS

One Healthcare

Environmental Footprint of Healthcare

I will spend 20 minutes learning about the environmental footprint of the healthcare industry, how it impacts health, and ways I can help reduce it.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

One Healthcare

Climate Change Impacts on Health

I will spend 20 minutes learning about the ways climate change impacts health.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

One Healthcare

Sustainable Healthcare

I will attend or watch a recording of a webinar 30 minutes long covering one or more healthcare sustainability issues.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

One Healthcare

Donate Blood

I will donate blood in my community to make sure there are adequate supplies for routine medical services and emergencies.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

At Home

Adjust the Thermostat

I will adjust my thermostat down 2 degrees from usual when I use the heat, and up 2 degrees when I use air conditioning.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health & Well-being

Reduce Refined Sugar

I will adopt a diet free of refined sugars, which eliminates sweetened beverages, candy, and processed foods.

COMPLETED 2
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?

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    In Our Communities Volunteer in My Community
    How did volunteering in your community make you feel? What is one thing you can do to help your community become more sustainable?
    Sally Wright's avatar
    Sally Wright 4/23/2024 9:53 AM
    I do quite a bit of volunteering in my world, mostly at my daughter's school. I have taught art lessons, planned events, chaperoned field trips, donated time, goods and services and have served on the PTA for the past eight years. I love giving of my time and serving others. It is as much a gift to me as the recipient. This year as we plan for our end-of-year carnival, we are looking for creative carnival prizes that won't be landfill bound a week after they are handed out. I am emails seed companies to seek donations. If any of you reading this has a suggestion for earth-friendly prizes, please let me know! :)

    My son and I also act on our own and go for "garbage walks" in our neighborhood, picking up garbage along the way. Our goal is to eventually do this once a week but that is tricky with busy schedules. It is important to us to do this because it shows my son that even small gestures such as this have a big impact. That's a whole garbage bag worth of trash that will (hopefully) not end up in the ocean. The only problem now is...how do we keep it from being buried in the earth. It's crazy to me that we do this...(not that I have any other suggestions).
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    At Home Adjust the Thermostat
    What other steps can you take each day to heat and cool your home more efficiently?
    Sally Wright's avatar
    Sally Wright 4/23/2024 9:37 AM
    Opening doors and windows when it is cooler out and then closing them before it gets warm. Wearing layers or using blankets to warm up rather than having the heat turned up. Snuggling. Planting trees for shade.
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    At Home Needs Vs. Wants
    How is creativity a necessary ingredient for practicing simplicity?
    Sally Wright's avatar
    Sally Wright 4/23/2024 9:34 AM
    I love this question. Sometimes it can take real creativity to gets needs and wants met while living a simplistic life. Learning how to mend and sew rather than throwing something away that can be fixed. Learning how to use up all the food you have on hand in creative meals so none of it goes to waste. Even the creativity behind making a vision board or collage showing how you'd like to live a simpler life. Getting creative with your wardrobe so you can have fewer pieces that all go together in various ways. I think even foraging is a form of creativity, something I would really love to learn more about, and can lead to a simpler existence that brings you closer to Ma Nature.
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    • Amy Downey's avatar
      Amy Downey 4/23/2024 1:42 PM
      I love asking myself, but can I do without it? If I didn't have that, is there something else I could use?

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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    One Healthcare Donate Blood
    Why do you donate blood?
    Sally Wright's avatar
    Sally Wright 4/08/2024 9:48 AM
    Donating blood is a generally quick, easy and free way to give back to your community in a hero-status way. Sadly, my iron is almost always abysmally too low for me to donate blood, no matter what I do. In fact, at a blood drive in college once, rather than receiving the "Be nice to me, I donated blood today" sticker I actually received an "I tried" sticker! Hilarious! I think I still have it in a journal!
    I first donated blood in 1998 when I was in high school and finally, FINALLY earned my one-gallon pin just a few years ago. It was a very proud and gratifying moment for me. I am only a few pints away from a second gallon but haven't been able to donate for probably close to a year because my iron is so low. I do plan to schedule an attempt this month, though, so wish me luck!

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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health & Well-being Exercise Daily
    How can you incorporate other personal values (like quality time with friends or spending time in nature) into your exercise routine?
    Sally Wright's avatar
    Sally Wright 4/05/2024 2:23 PM
    Going for walks and hikes, of course. My family has a three-mile route we walk together on the regular in our neighborhood. This past Saturday, we took some visitors from Colombia into the Columbia River Gorge for a hike. Even smaller things like playing catch or roller skating are fun activities we can, and do, do together in nature. My family is at its happiest when we are all enjoying nature together.
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  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health & Well-being Reduce Refined Sugar
    Before you started this challenge, did you think you were 'addicted' to sugar? How do you feel now?
    Sally Wright's avatar
    Sally Wright 4/04/2024 12:02 PM
    Not long ago, I would nearly always choose savory over sweet if given the choice. Then over the last few years my sugar intake began to climb. My preference for sweet vs savory flipped. I've recognized the need to cut back on the refined sugar but find it difficult to resist the urge (I have poor impulse control). I do think a sugar addiction is present in me. I have been on vacation for the past few days and haven't had much refined sugar, which is great, but have had a few moments of "OMG give me something sweet!" Hoping to continue avoiding it after this accidental built-in sugar hiatus. In the last year or so I have been opting for honey or real maple syrup as a sweetener in yogurt and coffee. And not that it is free of refined sugar, but I have also opted for higher quality chocolate (making the typical stuff taste just plain gross to me, thankfully).
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    • Angela Carr's avatar
      Angela Carr 4/05/2024 11:26 AM
      I read up on sugar's effects on the body and read a couple of books on nutrition after some blood test results that I did not like. So, I cut out processed foods of any kind and sugar. Honestly, I feel better. I'm less anxious and I have more energy. Shopping for groceries takes twice as long now because I'm reading the ingredients list on everything. I had no idea how much sugar is hidden in our food. It's disturbing. I did have a piece of cake for my birthday. And while I enjoyed it, and will again next year, I did notice how bad it made me feel after eating it. I am also disturbed to find out how much vegetable oil is in chocolate. Good lord there are few places out there that still use cocoa butter which is far healthier than processed vegetable oils. I'm so glad that I can still get chocolates from Malley's!!!
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    • Wendy Stultz (Riverbend Annex)'s avatar
      Wendy Stultz (Riverbend Annex) 4/04/2024 12:08 PM
      Like you said, there are times when I just NEED something sweet. I have been trying to reframe some of that by keeping berries or fruit as snacks. One of my go-tos now is macerating some strawberries with a little honey, and putting that and a little greek yogurt on a graham cracker. Its like a mini-cheesecake, but freshly made. I agree with you too about the higher quality chocolate- a higher cocoa content tends to be more powerful, so I find I am satisfied with one small peice.
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  • Sally Wright's avatar
    Sally Wright 3/19/2024 2:35 PM
    I have made long-lasting habits from the previous years' Ecochallenge selected actions and look forward to adding more! I am also here for my 13-year-old son, who's greatest fear is climate change. Taking care of the planet has always been important to me, and I try to show that to my family with my actions and choices, especially now so to help my son. He and I regularly go for walks in our neighborhood to pick up trash and even that small, local gesture does him a world of good! Looking forward to ramping this up again!
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