I will create a rain garden or bioswale, or use rain barrels to collect water for outdoor watering needs.
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ONE-TIME ACTION
Food
Buy from a Farmers Market
I will purchase produce and meat from a local farmers market or food co-op.
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ONE-TIME ACTION
Transportation
Walk Instead
I will walk 2 mile(s) per day instead of driving and avoid sending up to 2.3 lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.
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DAILY ACTIONS
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This is my second year participating in the EcoChallenge event. From the challenges I chose, the one I enjoyed the most was walking from home to Concord BART and Concord BART to home. It has left an impact on me to realize that we need to leave mother Earth's atmosphere in a better shape for our future kids. I will still walk to/from home to BART when mornings are not too dark and especially when daylight time changes next year. It will also help me to keep up with my health and I'm sure my doctor will be happy to hear this too. Go EcoChallenge -- keep it up and I'm looking forward for next's year's challenges! FYI - on my last day of walk challenge, I had escort to my house. (See photo) Adela
I'm enjoying my challenges this year as well. The walking from home/BART station and BART station/Home have been rewarding not just by avoiding sending lbs of CO2 into earth's atmosphere but it has also helped me in my health and perhaps loosing a couple of lbs too :). I have felt the energy after walking getting home and arriving at BART. I'm glad I join this year again.
I forgot to load this photo from one of our Thursday's Farmer's Market in my town. I stopped by after work from BART Station to Concord's downtown. It was a beautiful evening. Lots to choose from vegetables to fruits, bakery, etc.
I'll keep doing the collect rain whenever we get more rain in Concord, California; and I'll keep buying my fruits, vegetables etc from our local Farmer's market which it is on Tuesdays and Thursdays (concerts on evenings :) .
Ahhh …. My first day walking from home to Concord BART station. It was windy this morning and the clouds’ threat of rain felt near but that did not stop me. I started taking selfies on my walk and even though there were not many people walking, the few I saw greeted me and it felt good. Check out the video I took even though it is sideways – sorry but I’m not a savvy tech. The lady in the red shirt started to walk faster to get away from me when she saw me taking this photo. She kept pushing the walk button so many times that I thought it was going to break it. Needless to say, we end up taking the same train and guess what "we were also in the same car - haha." Well that’s all for today and I enjoyed my morning walk too. Stay tune for my next morning adventure. Let's go Golden Gate Team!!!
