Choose Your Own Adventure!
Greetings!
This is the last of the year-long monthly email challenges! Thank you
so much for staying on board with these - it has been a really useful
experience for myself to sample new behaviors every month, and I hope
that some of you have also gained something from the experience. I am
planning on putting together the art book on this year-long endeavor,
so please send me anything you would like included (reflections, art
pieces, random thoughts, etc.). It will likely be several months
before the final product is complete, so it's definitely not too late
to submit.
So for the final behavior and in honor of the 40th anniversary of
Earth Day this month, I thought it would be useful to offer a "choose
your own adventure". Choose an environmental behavior that you have
been dying to try or one that maybe one that just needs a little extra
focus. If you would be willing to share them with me and the group
(and I may bug you with more emails about this), please do email your
behaviors my direction! They could make a very interesting conclusion
to the book.
If you need ideas, one of your fellow journeyers sent me this a few weeks ago:
"so i've been super good at byoing containers this month to restaurants
and i just had a quick thought about a possible future behavior, though
i'm not sure if any of your other month activities have already
included this as an element. one thing i'm super bad at and know i need
to improve - i microwave plastic. i can't help it. we only have so many
jars and glass pyrex containers in our apt that aren't usually the
right size but we have a million plastic tupperware, most of which im
sure aren't microwave safe but i bring my lunch and dinner to school
most every day (good) and microwave in them (bad). how can i encourage
myself to stop this environmentally harmful behavior that surely
putting toxins into my body and the air? are there others like it that
i might not even know i'm doing?"
What do you think? Ready to give your own idea a shot?
Oh,
also, while I cannot continue to write these challenges, I have really
enjoyed this process. If anyone is interested in continuing, I am
willing to help facilitate a continued email list with monthly
challenges. Each person could take a month and we could sustain the
project. Let me know if you are interested and I will help to set up
some sort of way to coordinate this.
Thanks so much everyone! It has been a pleasure collaborating with
you and I will keep you updated on any future book developments :)
