Nozomi Kiritoshi

EcoDolphins

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
1,199 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

407

miles

not traveled by car
UP TO

387

miles

traveled by bus
UP TO

193

pounds of CO2

have been saved
UP TO

65

plastic straws

not sent to the landfill
UP TO

440

gallons of water

have been saved

Nozomi's actions

Water

5-Minute Showers

I will save up to 20 gallons (75 L) of water each day by taking 5-minute showers.

COMPLETED 22
DAILY ACTIONS

Water

Say No to Plastic Straws

An estimated 71% of seabirds and 30% of turtles have been found with plastics in their stomachs. When they ingest plastic, marine life has a 50% mortality rate. By asking for no straw when placing a drink order, I will keep 3 plastic straw(s) of out of the ocean each day.

COMPLETED 25
DAILY ACTIONS

Transportation

Use Public Transit

I will use public transit 20 mile(s) each day and avoid sending up to (___) lbs of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere.

COMPLETED 33
DAILY ACTIONS

Transportation

Work from Home

I will work from home 4 day(s) to avoid my commute's carbon output.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
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To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

REFLECTION QUESTION
Water Say No to Plastic Straws

What single-use items (e.g. straws, coffee cups, vegetable bags, plastic bags) do you regularly use? What could be substituted instead?

Nozomi Kiritoshi 11/16/2023 4:50 PM

Plastic cutleries, like fork, spoon when I use takeout. I will use reusable cutleries at the shop.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Water 5-Minute Showers

Name some of the human activities impacting the health of water systems, both locally (your watershed) and globally (freshwater and oceans). What can you do to improve the health of water systems?

Nozomi Kiritoshi 11/16/2023 4:38 PM

I live near the coastline of Japan, and I found there are many of plastic waste in the ocean. It makes the world's environment worse. So we should avoid putting away plastic bottles in the ocean, and reduce the use of plastic bottles.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation Use Public Transit

The US spends roughly 20% of its federal budget on defense. In contrast, 2% goes to education, 20% goes to social security and just 3% goes to transportation infrastructure. Do these numbers surprise you at all? Why or why not? How would you adjust them if you could?

Nozomi Kiritoshi 11/16/2023 4:33 PM

It made me surprised because the amount of the budget that goes to education is too low. I am Japanese and I am also concerned about the way of Japanese government uses the federal budget.

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