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Welcome to 2017 People's Ecochallenge!

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2017 People's Ecochallenge
October 11 - October 25, 2017
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Matthew Brown

First Unitarian of Portland

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Meditation

I will meditate for ten minutes each day to foster greater mindfulness and to reflect on the importance of life! Ten minutes is not much and I can certainly find the time to do this much each day!

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Food

Watch a Documentary

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

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Health

Happiness

I will write down three things every day for two weeks that I am grateful for, or send one email every day thanking or praising someone.

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    Matthew Brown 10/15/2017 6:41 PM
    I forgot to mark my challenges for the past two days! Oops!
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      Sherry Hall 10/16/2017 11:51 AM

      Never fear. If you miss a day checking in you can use the back arrow on the left of the current day on the checkin page to pick up the missed day.  

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    Matthew Brown 10/11/2017 4:19 PM
    I wrote down three things that I'm grateful for today and then I meditated for awhile! I chose to write down that I am grateful for: my oven, my blender, and my attitude! I think that I was more at peace after I meditated then when I began!
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    Matthew Brown 9/29/2017 1:29 PM
    I learned of the Eco Challenge last year from Keith Idling from the Animal Ministry; at the animal ministry we like to encourage people to consider the ecological consequences of the animal agriculture industry- they range from pollution to species extinction and everything in between! Reducing the amount of animal products in one's diet really does go a long way towards contributing not only to the animals affected but to the environment and to the cause of humanity as well. Keith was excited to get people on board with the Eco Challenge and he really likes to have communication between the various social justice causes within the church!

    Since last year's Eco Challenge I have incorporated the actions that I undertook into my everyday life, and since I already live a very low impact lifestyle I've mostly chosen tasks related to mindfulness for this year!
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