Lisa Appel

Port of Portland

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
512 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

450

minutes

spent exercising
UP TO

270

minutes

spent outdoors
UP TO

4.0

hours

volunteered
UP TO

12

zero-waste meals

consumed

Lisa's actions

Waste

Avoid Disposables

I will not use any disposable plates, cups, or utensils.

COMPLETED 7
DAILY ACTIONS

Health

Avoid refined sugar

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

COMPLETED 10
DAILY ACTIONS

Health

Exercise Daily

I will exercise daily for 30 minute(s) per day for two weeks.

COMPLETED 6
DAILY ACTIONS

Transportation

Use Muscle Power

I will only use muscle-powered transportation.

COMPLETED 11
DAILY ACTIONS

Simplicity

Limit Social Media

I will limit my social media use to once per day.

COMPLETED 13
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Zero-Waste Cooking

I will cook 2 meal(s) with zero waste each day.

COMPLETED 6
DAILY ACTIONS

Nature

Go for a Daily Walk

I will take a 30-minute walk outside each day.

COMPLETED 9
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Visit a Waste Management Facility

I will visit a local dump/transfer station, material recovery facility, and/or landfill to learn about the waste stream.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health

Go get a check up

I will make an appointment for my annual physical.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Watch a Documentary

I will watch a documentary film about food with family and friends and talk about what we learned.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Volunteer in my Community

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

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

Lisa Appel 10/17/2017 10:17 PM
In my challenge to reduce one-time paper towel use, I am finding that many public facilities, event venues or restaurants do not offer the option of a hand dryer. I am grateful my workplace provides the choice.

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Lisa Appel 10/16/2017 9:58 AM
Giving up refined sugar is harder than I expected. It's not just avoiding candy, refined sugar is in all sorts of products such as granola bars.

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Lisa Appel 10/10/2017 4:49 PM
I am mentally preparing for my "use my muscles" challenge. I will only be using the stairs for the next two weeks, that's 9 floors each way at least twice a day. This is definitely going to help my hill-walking.

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Lisa Appel 10/06/2017 10:14 AM
I selected "Use Muscle Power" - my plan is to use the stairs instead of the elevator! Huzzah!

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Lisa Appel 9/14/2017 9:42 AM
I selected AVOID DISPOSABLES as one my challenges this year. Specifically, I want to stop using paper towels and start using the hand dryers in the restroom. Through a waste audit, we discovered that 21% of our building waste is from the restrooms, which is primarily composed of discarded paper towels.

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