Leonardo Salazar
POINTS TOTAL
- 0 TODAY
- 0 THIS WEEK
- 580 TOTAL
participant impact
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UP TO35meatless or vegan mealsconsumed
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UP TO12milestraveled by bus
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UP TO1.0miletraveled by foot
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UP TO115pounds of CO2have been saved
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UP TO35plastic bottlesnot sent to the landfill
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UP TO3.0documentarieswatched
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UP TO1.0petitionsigned
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UP TO210minutesspent outdoors
Leonardo's actions
Water
Watch The Story of Bottled Water
I will watch The Story of Bottled Water to learn more about bottled water's impacts on the environment.
Water
Use Reusable Bottles
I will use a reusable bottle and stop purchasing bottled water, saving 5 disposable plastic bottle(s) each day this week.
Food
Reduce Animal Products
I will enjoy 5 meatless meal(s) and/or 0 vegan meal(s) each day this week.
Consumption and Economy
Learn About Alternatives to the GDP
I will research alternatives (like Gross National Happiness) to measuring economic livelihood and the health of a nation.
Food
Watch a Documentary
I will watch a documentary film about food with family and friends and talk about what we learned.
Consumption and Economy
Buy Only What I Need
I will not buy anything except items required for health and safety.
Transportation
Use Public Transit
I will use public transit 12 mile(s) each day this week and avoid sending up to 102.07 lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.
Transportation
Walk Instead
I will walk 1 mile(s) each day this week instead of driving and avoid sending up to 12.99 lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.
Community
Sign a Petition
I will sign a petition in support of an environmental or social initiative in my state.
Community
Pick Up Litter
I will pick up litter on my street and ask others to join me in taking care of our neighborhood.
Ecological Principles
Keep An Ecological Principles Journal
I will keep a journal this week as I observe ecological principles in action in my backyard, neighborhood or community.
Ecological Principles
Practice Gratitude for Earth
This week, I will spend 30 minute(s) each day outside, practicing gratitude (prayer, meditation, journaling, etc.) for Earth and the nature surrounding me.
A Call to Sustainability
Watch a Documentary
I will watch a movie about a sustainability issue I would like to know more about.
A Call to Sustainability
Start a Sustainability Journal
I will start a sustainability journal, capturing my thoughts, concerns and learning about sustainability issues.
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?
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Leonardo Salazar 4/23/2018 2:42 PMKeeping a log of your life's events can see whether or not your life is being satisfied and how your emotions are reacting. As you continue, you can make some small changes in your activity life to see if your change has brought more satisfaction, or creates distress. To see the highest- quality measures of your life satisfaction, you can use the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) to measure both the positive and negative affects of your decisions in life.
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Leonardo Salazar 4/23/2018 1:25 PMI watched a video called Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food, and it explains how food that was grown locally provides more health benefits and reduces the amount of food from being thrown into the landfill. It also explains how people are slowly forgetting how real food is supposed to taste like, because unnecessary food products are being stuffed in stores. Fruits and vegetables don't make much of a profit as people believe they have no actual taste and it's boring to consume them. Learning how to grow your own food helps you feel closer to the Earth, understand the process of what goes into making and growing your food, and able to connect to people locally through food.
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Leonardo Salazar 4/19/2018 9:50 PMIf you know your daily cycle well enough, it helps you figure out what you need for health and safety pretty easily.
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Leonardo Salazar 4/19/2018 9:45 PMScaring, seducing, and misleading us. Wow. Tricking people into thinking that tap water isn't healthy when just making bottled water is harmful to the environment. Even though the this video says that tap water is safe to drink, I can't help but feel a bit hesitant, as I heard somewhere that the pipes could potentially release lead that could go into the water you drink. Maybe those pipes have to be really old for that to happen, I don't know. It's been a long time ago since I heard about that. -
Leonardo Salazar 4/19/2018 9:28 PMUsing the same bottle helps reduce the times a person has to get another bottle to fill with water. Gotta clean that bottle to keep it clean for the next time you drink from that same bottle.
I will use a reusable bottle and stop purchasing bottled water, saving 5 disposable plastic bottle(s) each day this week. -
Leonardo Salazar 4/05/2018 8:41 PMDay 1. Rice with lettuce, cucumbers, and tomato.
Day 2. Rice with plantain and kidney beans.
Day 3. Rice with plantain and lentils.
Day 4. Spaghetti
Day 5. Rice with potatos and beans. -
Leonardo Salazar 3/01/2018 9:11 PMGoing from one side of the campus to the other to get to my classes is great form of exercise. -
Leonardo Salazar 3/01/2018 8:58 PMI've been mostly taking the bus, the subway, and the shuttle to get to and back from Mason. There's plenty of space in the subway seats that could allow more people to take, rather than drive to their destination. -
Leonardo Salazar 2/22/2018 5:12 PMAfter the horrible act of violence that occurred in Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS, I felt like it was important for this petition to be signed. In order to find a peaceful future, we need to stop people from purchasing weapons so easily that could destroy the lives and dreams of the victims, as well as their friends and family. -
Leonardo Salazar 2/21/2018 7:39 PMPicked up trash and recyclables near Randolph Elementary School. There were mostly recyclables, such as cans and beer bottles. It's sickening to see so many bottles near the bases of the trees. Not to mention under thorn bushes which gave me some good slashes. I managed to fill up three whole bags after completing three hours of picking up the recyclables. There was so much that they almost overflowed, even started ripping through the bag that thankfully there was a recycling bin just outside of the pathway. I had to carry the other two bags up a hill where there was a recycling bin near my apartment. Thankfully the bags held as I dumped into the bin. There were some people walking by as I was collecting the recyclables and trash into the bags and know they saw me. Though, I doubt that they would get the message. When I was collecting the recyclables, there was a beer box that was supposed to hold glass beer bottles that looked like people would sit and drink. This meant that the next day, there's a good chance that these morons would go to the same spot and do this shtick again, when there's two recycling bins at the entrance and the exit of the path. But no, people just love to be lazy and dump them wherever they want.