Eco Experience
with Eco Chick
In this issue:
-->4J/EWEB Education Partnership Program Message
- Recognize 4J Eco Champions
-->Monthly Matters
- Earth Week Actions
- Meatless Monday
- Transportation Tuesday
- Waste not, Want Not Wednesday
- Thrifty Thursday
- Forest Friday
- Water Weekend
- Earth Day 2025 Our Planet, Our Power
- Get Your building involved-create a Drawdown Eco Challenge for your people!
- Food Waste Awareness Season
-->Events and Opportunities
- Take Action, Take the Earth Week Pledge!
- Earth Day Market 4/19
- Trans Wild Forest Frolic 4/19
- Mt. Pisgah Arboretum's Earth Day work party 4/26
--> Resources
- Subject to Climate's Earth Month
- K-12 Earth Month Calendar
- Let's Go Eco! with Mr. Eco (for elementary)
Happy Earth Week, People!
As many of us know, it takes 30 days to begin a new routine or habit. For Earth week, challenge yourself to choose an Earth Week Action or two to add into your lifestyle. Healthy for you, healthy for the planet. Win, Win.
In this special Earth Week edition, there are many ways to play. Choose an action, take the pledge, enter a drawing to win a prize. Share on your socials, share with your families, Get the youth involved. Collective small shifts, make a big difference.
Be well,
Tana aka Eco Chick
Do you know a 4J Eco Champion?
Every building in Eugene 4J has Eco Champions and we want to highlight and celebrate their efforts!
Use this form to nominate Eco Champions in your buildings to be highlighted in a special Eco Experience edition later this spring featuring colleagues that go above and beyond to make sustainable practices a priority. It may be your custodian, nutrition services staff, teachers, EA's, admin, students...ANYONE and everyone....even yourself! Nothing wrong with a little self-promotion.
Meatless Monday
Save Water and Land!
Plan a meatless meal.
Figure out your food footprint.
Explore Plant-based alternatives.
Adopt a new vegan/vegetarian recipe.
Take the pledge and commit to a new green habit! ---> Take the Pledge!
Transportation Tuesday
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint!
- Walk!
- Ride your bike.
- Get a bus pass.
- Travel by bus.
- Carpool.
- Bike Caravan.
- Skate, roll, scoot to school/work.
Take the pledge and commit to a new green habit! ---> Take the Pledge!
Waste not, want not Wednesday
Reduce Your Waste!
- Reduce what you need.
- Choose reusable over single use items.
- Love Food Not Waste-start curbside composting at home!
- Always bring a reusable water bottle or cup!
- Eat your leftovers!
- Eat Smart. Waste Less.
- Recycle Right.
Take the pledge and commit to a new green habit! ---> Take the Pledge!
Thrifty Thursday
Save Money & the Planet!
- Buy second hand items.
- Hang clothes to dry.
- Choose recyclable items.
- Repair instead of replace.
- Eat your leftovers!
- Shower less.
- Say "no" to things you don't need.
Take the pledge and commit to a new green habit! ---> Take the Pledge!
Forest Friday
Get Outside & Love Our Planet!
- Walk instead of drive.
- Make friends with a tree.
- Take a hike.
- Smell the flowers.
- Sit by a river.
- Climb the butte.
- Ride a bike.
- Plant a tree.
- Watch an insect.
- Listen to the birds sing.
Take the pledge and commit to a new green habit! ---> Take the Pledge!
Water Weekend
Conserve and Protect Water!
- Always use cold water unless you need it hot.
- Don't leave the tap running.
- Take shorter showers.
- Run full loads of laundry/dishes.
- Water outdoors only when needed.
- Pick up litter to keep waterways clean.
Take the pledge and commit to a new green habit! ---> Take the Pledge!
Earth Day 2025-Our Planet, Our Power
EARTH DAY, EVERY DAY!
This year is the 55th anniversary of Earth day. The theme for Earth Day 2025 is OUR POWER, OUR PLANET, inviting everyone around the globe to unite behind renewable energy, and to triple the global generation of clean electricity by 2030.
How? By joining in Earth Action Day, encouraging all to take action—educate, advocate, and mobilize. Pledge an Earth Action on social media. Attend/plan/register a local event. Integrate Earth Day lessons into your curricula. There are so many ways to play! EARTH DAY 2025
And few other resources:
Local Power info
EWEB Where Our Power Comes From
Earth Day Resources
2025 Subject to Climate Earth Day Resource Guide
Earth Reminder: Earth Day Activities
Nat Geo Kids: History of Earth Day
ACT now Climate Action Super Heroes
-->Check out the Eugene 4J Celebrate's Earth Day page and Earth Action Week for resources.
Create a Drawdown Eco Challenge for your site!
Connect the dots between climate solutions and climate actions to help reverse climate change with Drawdown Ecochallenge!
Drawdown Ecochallenge is offered in partnership by Ecochallenge.org and Project Drawdown. Together, we're taking action on the most substantive solutions to climate change. Stretch your limits, earn points, and see your positive impact grow. Take the challenge, and see how a few weeks of action add up to a lifetime of change for you and the planet.
Ecochallenge.org's social change platform + curriculum connect a global community of advocates and changemakers, each doing what we can, in ways that are most relevant to us, to make this great spinning dot we call home a healthier, more equitable, more sustainable place.
Welcome to the Drawdown Eco Challenge
Stop Food Waste Day April 30th
And, yet another day to recognize the importance of food waste prevention. the STOP food waste site has stories, recipes, a campaign tool kit and more. I especially like the page: Why Stop Food Waste?
Prevent, Inspire and Repurpose
- Prevent food waste at source by storing food optimally, making use of every edible part of the ingredient and planning meals ahead of time
- Inspire others to waste less, and repurpose more
- Repurpose food by redistributing any surplus to your local community, or giving a second life to ingredients that most commonly go to waste
4J/EWEB Education Partnership
TOSA-Climate. Energy. Conservation
Email: shepard_t@4j.lane.edu
Website: https://bit.ly/4J-eep
Phone: 541.790.5533