Hi SD Leaders: I wanted you to know about a terrific initiative that is part of the Project Drawdown effort called Project Drawdown Ecochallenge. The Project Drawdown EcoChallenge is a fun and social way to learn about and take action on the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming.
Drawdown EcoChallenge provides tools and inspiration to turn intention into action and gives participants a fun and social way to think about and act on proven solutions to reverse global warming. Over eighty actions within seven Challenge categories provide participants with diverse options to reduce carbon usage. The Challenge takes place April 4-25.
Participants track and share their progress online in a robust platform and earn points for taking action. The combination of collective action, camaraderie, and friendly competition makes change a little easier. For those in design practices, this could be the basis of an Earth-month campaign where you register a firm team and compete against other teams across the globe. For multi-locational firms, you could have different locations register teams and compare progress across the firm.
All kinds of information here: https://drawdown.ecochallenge.org/
Please check this out and think about how you, within your firm, on your own, or within your community (whatever!) can participate in this galvanizing effort. For any questions, you can contact Lacy Cagle at Northwest Earth Institute who is organizing the effort: lacy@nwei.org . Tell her Mary Ann sent you!
thanks.
Mary Ann
PS it is possible for an individual to join more than one team as long as they use a different email address for each one.
PPS check out the robust Media resources that you can use in any internal campaign promotion here: https://drawdown.ecochallenge.org/about/resources
