Just back from a week out of town, so I am excited to get to my ecochallenge!

We did our swale cleanup through the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Adopt-a-Swale program and noticed some deficiencies in drainage that we will notify the city of, drainages that are not occurring correctly and affecting bike lanes. This is at SE Water and SE Clay Streets.

There's a challenge in the waste category that is about reducing junk mail.  There's a link to a service online where you can cancel catalogues, which is free.  If you sign up for that challenge and cancel catalogues you don't want to receive anymore, it's a one time action worth 50 points.  It was pretty easy to do!

I keep forgetting to eat without distractions. Well maybe I'm not forgetting, I'm getting distracted? 

Failed at getting extra sleep last night... so far that challenge has been very beneficial though! I figured I could salvage some points by posting about it...

Passing up a mini raspberry cupcake from Dream Cakes today to avoid processed sugars was easier than I anticipated...

I'm finding the three meals a day free from processed foods to be challenging.  Today, for example, my lunch included TVP.  I guess that's processed and so I didn't get it today.  

I watched Vegucated. It was very informative.

That last post should have had a picture attached.  Lemme try again....