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3 and 3X: Eco-Mentor Activist (Self-Empowerment Activities; Eco-Sustainable Living)


42 Lessons

All Levels

The activities in this course offering are designed to support you in cultivating an eco-sustainable lifestyle. Use them to identify your interests and nurture your talents in the realm of eco-sustainable living. Be the eco-learner and Eco-Mentor you were born to be! ACTIVITIES IN PART 3 INCLUDE: • Your Human/Earth Ecology System (Stress, Decay, and Eco-Dis-integration) • What Do You Do, Whe


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About This Course

Learning Objectives
  • Become aware of the foundational life-giving elements that serve to keep life alive within your amazing human ecology system as well as the Earth's amazing ecology system. Discover how you can exchange positive energy with the Earth through clean, green, living.
  • Be inspired to create a more eco-sustainable mindset and lifestyle.
  • Use your understanding about eco-sustainable living to encourage eco-sustainable awareness in others whose health and well-being you care about.
3 and 3X: Eco-Mentor Activist (Self-Empowerment Activities; Eco-Sustainable Living) Details
42 Lessons
Level: All
Estimated Time To Complete
Course Description

The activities in this course offering are designed to support you in cultivating an eco-sustainable lifestyle. Use them to identify your interests and nurture your talents in the realm of eco-sustainable living. Be the eco-learner and Eco-Mentor you were born to be! ACTIVITIES IN PART 3 INCLUDE: • Your Human/Earth Ecology System (Stress, Decay, and Eco-Dis-integration) • What Do You Do, When Everyday Chemicals Hit Home? • Do You Have Environmental Illness? • What is Environmental Medicine? (Do You Need to See a Doctor Who Practices It?) • Do You Have the Symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome? • Do You Have a Methylation Issue that Interferes with Detoxification in Your Body? • Does Your Face Reveal a Toxic Body Burden? • Don’t Pollute Your Body: Pamper it the Eco-Friendly Way! • Clean Beauty vs. Toxic Beauty: Which Do You Choose? • Becoming the Darling of Eco-Friendly Beauty • Make-It-Yourself Skin Care and Health Care Products • Do the Ingredients in Your Pit Stick or Pit Spray Stink? • Is Your Laundry Soap Sickening You and the Planet? • Do It Yourself Potpourris for Eco-Friendly Cleaning • Is Your Body Clean Enough to Conceive a Baby? • Oh Baby! Non-Toxic Care for Newborns • Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Investigating the Dark Side of Waste Disposal • Climbing Out from Under Your Junk Mail Pile! • Imagining a Way to Redesign the Systems That Produce Our Food, Health, and Lifestyle Products • Creating an Activist Strategy for Living Green That is Fun and Sexy • Is Green Business Using Mother Earth as a Branding Opportunity? • Creating a Sustainable Economy Hand in Hand with a Sustainable World • Eco-Business Innovation: The Cure for Fatalistic Thinking ACTIVITIES IN PART 3X INCLUDE: • Fires and Fevers: Agents of Detoxification • How You Can Use Nature’s Foundational, Life-Sustaining Elements to Detoxify Your Body • Are You (and Other Living Things) Eating the World’s Most Toxic Weed Killer? • Is Glyphosate Eroding Your Family’s Health? • Where Have All the Honeybees Gone, and Will We Ever Get Them Back? • Legislating for a Less Toxic Food Supply • The Wisdom of Compost • Sunup, Sundown, Is There a Farmer in Town? • Garden Grub, Garden Club • What a Garden Can Teach You About Reciprocity • Do You Have the Guts to Live Well in Today’s Eco-Challenged Times? • Can the Bugs in Your Gut Determine How Fat or Skinny You/Others Are? • Are Parasites Zapping Your Life Energy? • Why is a Whole Generation Affected by Autism? • Is an Autistic Diagnosis Ever a Gift?

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    Course Outline

    It's Time to Walk the Path of Eco-Sustainable Living


    3 INTRODUCTION TO SIDE DISHES


    0: Side Dishes for Whole Living & Learning


    3 SELF-EMPOWERMENT ACTIVITIES


    3 OVERVIEW (Self-Empowerment Activities)


    3_01: Your Human/Earth Ecology System (Stress, Decay, and Eco-Dis-integration)

    Your Human Ecosystem, the Earth’s Ecosystem: Stress, Decay, and the Ecology of Eco-Dis-integration – Earth's ecosystem and that of humans are connected. Their functions, when unbalanced, can cause stress and decay of the individual ecosystems. Identify how in this activity.


    3_02: What Do You Do When Everyday Chemicals Hit Home?

    What Do You Do, When Everyday Chemicals Hit Home – Every single day people are affected by using chemicals at home and at school. Fill-in-the-blank stories about real-life chemical poisonings are featured in this activity for your education.


    3_03: Do You Have Environmental Illness?

    Do You Have Environmental Illness? – In the world of epidemiology, environmental illness is regarded as any disease condition that is directly related to a person's exposure to lead paint, asbestos, mold, or tainted municipal water supplies. Discover how this illness is exacerbated by your body's inability to deal with these toxins.


    3_04: What is Environmental Medicine?

    What is Environmental Medicine? (Do You Need to See a Doctor Who Practices It?) – Environmental medicine is concerned with the interaction between mankind and the environment involving adverse reactions. Learn what makes you susceptible to excitants that threaten your health. Additionally, learn about organizations and doctors that support environmental medicine in this activity.


    3_05: Do You Have the Symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome?

    Do You Have the Symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome? – Mast cell activation is triggered by environmental toxins. Mast cells are part of the human immune system, and their function serves to respond to foreign substances in order to activate wound healing and tissue repair. When these cells don’t respond properly, the condition can be miserable for the victims. This activity teaches which organs and systems in the body are impacted by mast cell activation and the symptoms they produce.

    


    3_06: Do You Have a Methylation Issue, that Interferes with Your Body's Ability to Detoxify?

    Do You Have a Methylation Issue that Interferes with Detoxification in Your Body? Engage with material that focuses on the regulation functions of methylation. This activity also offers information on how to support the processes that methylation through good nutrition.


    3_07: Does Your Face Reveal a Toxic Body Burden?

    Does Your Face Reveal a Toxic Body Burden? – Discover the different parts of your face that reveal the health of your internal organs. Is your nose swollen? Are your cheeks puffy? Are your lips swollen? Each of these tells shows a body part that is functioning in a less than optimal way. How do you unburden your internal organs?


    3_08: Don't Pollute Your Body: Pamper it, The Eco-Friendly Way!

    Don’t Pollute Your Body: Pamper it the Eco-Friendly Way! – If you use face cleanser, shampoo, hair conditioner, deodorant, antiperspirant, perfumes, toothpaste, mouthwash, shaving gel, or body lotion, you may be exposing yourself to as many as 160 chemical ingredients. A number of these ingredients have not had their health evaluated by the FDA. Learn how to ensure your beauty routines are safe in this activity.

    


    3_09: Clean Beauty , Toxic Beauty: Which Do You Choose?

    Clean Beauty vs. Toxic Beauty: Which Do You Choose? – Learn about how your skin absorbs what you feed it, just as your digestive system absorbs what you eat. Gain an understanding in this activity about how, when you apply toxic makeup products, you are creating chemical stockpiles in your organs, tissues, and bloodstream. The bioaccumulation of these chemicals can lead to serious health concerns. Research how to source clean products by learning the difference between toxic and clean products.


    3_10: Becoming The Darling of Eco-Friendly Beauty

    Becoming the Darling of Eco-Friendly Beauty – Six of the most common toxic ingredients found in over 600 personal care products are introduced in this activity. Explore natural alternatives to search for in your personal care items. Consider the limitations of extreme makeovers in terms of their ability to support your internal health. Redefine beauty in eco-friendly ways.


    3_11: Make-It-Yourself Skin Care and Health Products

    Make-It-Yourself Skin Care and Health Care Products – Explore several natural, non-toxic ingredients that you can use to enhance your skin care, such as aloe, shea butter, coconut oil, yogurt, ghee, clay, lemon juice, sugar, honey, and even urine.


    3_12: Do the Ingredients in Your Pit Stick or Pit Spray Stink?

    Do the Ingredients in Your Pit Stick or Pit Spray Stink? – Most in store deodorants are a combination of antiperspirant agents to keep you from sweating, and a deodorizer to cover up any smell. While this might sound like an effective idea, it is not a healthy one. Identify the six most toxic ingredients in your underarm products and explore ways you can de-stink your body inside and out.

    


    3_13: Is Your Laundry Soap Sickening You & The Planet?

    Is Your Laundry Soap Sickening You and the Planet? – Most detergents used for laundry are made up of toxic compounds like quaternary ammonium salts, aka “quats,” which are known to threaten the health of the environment. In this activity, learn about clean soap alternatives.


    3_14: Do-It-Yourself Potpourri's for Eco-Friendly Cleaning

    Do It Yourself Potpourris for Eco-Friendly Cleaning – You will be provided with a handful of simple, effective recipes for cleaning your home without toxic chemicals in this activity.


    3_15: Is Your Body Healthy Enough to Conceive a Baby?


    3_15+: Oh Baby!. Non-Toxic Health Care for Newborns

    Oh Baby! – Research natural, organic products on the market that may be useful to care for the health of young babies, toddlers, and children. Offering mothers information on finding better baby foods, diapers, ointments, and toys, this activity teaches on protecting the baby’s developing immune system, eyes, skin, and breathing passages. Additionally, you are encouraged to write a thank you to eco-aware companies.


    3_16: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Investigating the Dark Side of Waste Disposal

    Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Investigating the Dark Side of Waste Disposal – Get in touch with what is out of sight and out of mind in terms of consumer waste and garbage. Answer a series of questions in this activity about your knowledge on the big waste polluters in your state and merge this awareness with personal reflection on curtailing your own wasteful habits.


    3_17: Climbing Out from Under Your Junk Mail Pile

    Climbing Out from Under Your Junk Mail Pile! – Assess the junk mail in your possession and stop its unnecessary proliferation by contacting those companies that generate it with guidance from this activity.


    3_18: Imagining Ways to Redesign Our Lifestyle Production Systems

    Imagining a Way to Redesign the Systems That Produce Our Food, Health, and Lifestyle Products – Consider the kinds of alternative systems you would design if you were a commercial producer of food, health, or lifestyle products. Reflect on the difference between businesses that function on principles of integrity and businesses that function on principles of soulless profitability. How would you best meet your needs and wants through also considering the protection of health for all living things?


    3_19: Creating an An Eco-Activist’s Strategy for Living Green that is Fun and Sexy

    Creating an Activist’s Strategy for Living Green That is Fun and Sexy – How might you educate others about the value and necessity of eco-aware living using a fun and sexy approach? Define your answer in this activity.


    3_20: Is Green Business Using Mother Earth as a Branding Opportunity?

    Is Green Business Using Mother Earth as a Branding Opportunity? – Use a critical eye to research a business that claims to be green. Examine the company’s claims and see if they match its actions. Analyze whether the company of your choosing is truly going green or not.

    


    3_21: Creating A Sustainable Economy that Goes Hand in Hand with a Sustainable World

    Creating a Sustainable Economy That Goes Hand-in-Hand with a Sustainable World – Sustainability is valuable and necessary in business today. Share your insights about the kinds of sustainable businesses you admire the most and search more companies in the United States leading the way in adopting eco-friendly policies and procedures.

    


    3_22: Eco-Business Innovation; The Cure for Fatalistic Thinking

    Eco-Business Innovation: The Cure for Fatalistic Thinking – Consider the power of eco-innovation in the business world to overcome the apathy and fatalistic thinking that is often accompanied with dark transitional periods in history.


    3X SELF-EMPOWERMENT ACTIVITIES


    3X OVERVIEW (Self-Empowerment Activities)

    Cultivate Your Interests and Talents on the Path to Eco-Sustainable Living

    3X_01: Fires & Fevers: Agents of Detoxification

    Fires and Fevers: Agents of Detoxification – Recognize how and when detoxification occurs in humans and Earth. Why is detoxification necessary for rebalancing and renewing health? Develop an answer from materials in this activity.


    3X_02: How You Can Use Nature's Life-Sustaining Elements to Detoxify Your Body

    How You Can Use Nature’s Foundational, Life-Sustaining Elements to Detoxify Your Body – Learn about the five life-sustaining elements that serve to regulate the health of your human ecology and supports your body’s ability to cleanse and detoxify naturally.


    3X_03: Are You and other Living Things Eating Toxic Weed Killer?

    Are You (and Other Living Things) Eating the World’s Most Toxic Weed Killer? – Glyphosate does not just stay on the plants in which it is sprayed. It expands into the soil, water supplies, and endangers insects and animals that forage on crops. In this activity, explore how soil biology is strongly disrupted by glyphosate, which is toxic to many beneficial micro and macro organisms.


    3X_04: Is Glyphosate Eroding Your Family's Health?

    Is Glyphosate Eroding Your Family’s Health? – What is glyphosate and what foods are treated with it? Gain an understanding of the answer through information on glyphosates harmful impacts on biological functions and the diseases the chemical is linked to.


    3X_05: Where Have All the Honeybees Gone?

    Where Have All the Honeybees Gone, and Will We Ever Get Them Back? – Learn about what is pushing the honeybee population into extinction, leaving many beekeepers with abandoned hives and farmers with no way to ensure their crops are pollinated.


    3X_06: Legislating for a Less Toxic Food Supply.

    Legislating for a Less Toxic Food Supply – Write action letters to politicians that serve to alert them to your views and concerns on toxic agriculture. This activity invites you to learn who your state legislators and local lawmakers are. Contact them with your food supply concerns. Make a case for less toxic practices and encourage others to do the same.


    3X_07: Exploring The Wisdom of Compost

    Exploring The Wisdom of Compost – Develop a compost recipe that helps restore the balance of Earth’s soil to provide for an organic garden.


    3X_08: Sun-Up, Sun-Down: Is There a Farmer in Town?

    Sunup, Sundown, Is There a Farmer in Town? – Interview a commercial or organic farmer and discover why they have made the choice to cultivate agriculture in the manner they have chosen.


    3X_09: Garden Grub, Garden Club

    Garden Grub, Garden Club – With options for joining or starting a garden club, this activity encourages you to service the community while earning a personal income or revenues to support other projects.


    3X_09+: What a Garden Can Teach You About Reciprocity

    What a Garden Can Teach You About Reciprocity- Reciprocity, in basic terms, is the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. In this activity, you will use an example of the reciprocity that takes place within a garden as the basis for cultivating the reciprocity that supports the growth of relationships.


    3X_10: Do You Have the Guts to Live Well in Today's Eco-Challenged Times?

    Do You Have the Guts to Live Well in Today’s Eco-Challenged Times? – Research a healthy form of bacteria called a probiotic, which supports digestive and intestinal health. Gain a better understanding of the relationship between bacteria and your health's potential.

    


    3X_11: Can the Bugs in Your Gut Determine How Fat or Skinny You Are?

    Can the Bugs in Your Gut Determine How Fat or Skinny You Are? – Doctors and scientists have developed research linking the role of intestinal microbes and weight loss or gain management. Learn about a young man who almost died from a deficiency of intestinal microbes but regained his health through the consumption of organisms that served to reestablish the microbiology of his digestive system.


    3X_12: Are Parasites Zapping Your Life Energy?

    Are Parasites Zapping Your Life Energy? – Parasites come in many different forms and many of them can weaken your health and zap your energy. Discover the role of chemicals and environmental toxins in laying the groundwork for parasites to inhabit a host organism.


    3X_13: Why Is a Whole Generation Being Affected by Autism (What Can We Do?)

    Why is a Whole Generation Affected by Autism? – There are many faces of autism developing in generations of children and adults. Identify various characteristics of autism and the ways in which it can limit one’s ability to communicate and interact. This activity exposes how toxins, chemicals, and vaccines may play a part in the development of autism. Is there an environmental solution for this syndrome?


    3X_14: Is an Autistic Diagnosis Ever a Gift?

    Is an Autistic Diagnosis Ever a Gift? – Barry Neil Kaufman and his wife, Samahria Lyte Kaufman, helped their autistic son Raun to overcome his diagnosis of autism and become a highly intelligent, articulate, successful and loving adult who was a teacher at the family’s Autism Treatment Center of America. Learn about this family and their practices.


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