I’m 18 years old and a first year student in DCU. I am currently studying climate and environmental sustainability. I’m excited to start this challenge and see the impact it has on my daily life.
My challenge
To be a vegetarian.

As I received another text message from ripples reminding me about my challenge while simultaneously encouraging me to keep going they mentioned something known as ‘ change fatigue’. That phrase defiantly sums up my challenge the past few days. College itself is a huge change to experience plus then this massive change in my diet may all seem a little overwhelming at times. Yet the more we delve further into this course and the more I learn about the devastating effects of climate change which I am sure we are all aware of I become more and more empowered to stay on top of my challenge. The environmental issues we are faces are going to take some major changes to fix which will involve all of society. But by doing my little challenge and sticking with it in the future I feel like I am making some kind of minor impact on helping the environment. One person going vegetarian may not make a huge change to the grand scheme of things but its a small step in the right direction.  So whenever I feel like this challenge is not worth the change I try to remind myself that it has a purpose, so does everyone who is taking parts challenge. Day 19 we are almost there!