The activities in this course offering are designed to support you in cultivating eco-conscious lifestyle awareness. Use them to identify your interests and nurture your talents in the realm of eco-conscious living. Be the eco-learner and Eco-Mentor you were born to be! ACTIVITIES IN PART 1 INCLUDE: • Take the Climate Reality Quiz • Does Climate Change Cause You to Experience Anxiety?
The activities in this course offering are designed to support you in cultivating eco-conscious lifestyle awareness. Use them to identify your interests and nurture your talents in the realm of eco-conscious living. Be the eco-learner and Eco-Mentor you were born to be! ACTIVITIES IN PART 1 INCLUDE: • Take the Climate Reality Quiz • Does Climate Change Cause You to Experience Anxiety? • How Big Is Your Ecological Footprint? • The Heat is On (Examining the Relationship between Global Warming and Our Food Choices) • Why Do Humans Eat in Such a Complicated Way? • Exploring the Hi-story My Food Choices Are Making • Fewer People, More Habitats • Is Water the New Oil? • Is Vampire Power Sucking Our Global Energy Supply Dry? • Moving to Sweden, a Place That's Enhancing Its Immunity to Affluenza • MPG or 20 MPG: What Does Your Car Say About Your Relationship with • the Road and the Natural Environment? • If Suffering is the Teacher, what is the Lesson? • Letter to the Water, Letter to the Land • Tears from the Rainforest, Cries from the Prairies • How Will You Help to Create the New American Dream? • The Power of Choosing • Earth is Our Home, Even if Saint Ego Has Led us to Believe Otherwise ACTIVITIES IN PART 1X INCLUDE: 1X Include: • Do You Suffer from Affluenza? • Is the Bane of Your Eco-Existence an Unhealthy Lifestyle? • The Life You Were Born to Live, vs. the Lifestyle You’ve Been Conditioned to Want • Is Our Culture Creative Enough to Birth a New Earth? • To Whom Do We Give Our Free Will as Consumers? • Would You Like to Be a Lohasian? • Consumer Co-Dependent, or Consumer Independent? • Living Deliberately to Create an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle • Exploring a Process for Clearing Your Self-Limiting Beliefs • Thrifty is Nifty: Regaining a Sense of Frugality • Reducing Food Packaging: You Can Make a Difference! • Are You Ready to Stop Dressing in Toxic Clothing? • Where Do the Clothes on Your Back Come From? • My World Montage • What Is Your Heart’s Desire? • Exploring the Gift of Music During Hard Times • Which Lens Do You Choose to See Life Through?
Candia Lea Cole, the founder of Eco-Learning Legacies, is known by her peers within the holistic health community as the eco-intelligent lifestyle mentor. She creates educational tools that support individuals, families, and wellness educators to learn (and teach) about the why and the how of creating a clean, green lifestyle that nourishes wellness in body, mind, heart, and soul, as well as the earth and all living things. Candia's experience with environmental illness while growing up led her to awaken her innate eco-intelligence and to embark on a path of self-learning and self-healing. Her inspirational books, teaching infographics, video cooking classes, lifestyle podcasts, and her Eco-Mentor Leadership Trainings, all of which reflect her passion and compassion, have invited praise from many global change-agents.
Take the Climate Reality Quiz – Put your knowledge to the test by engaging with this activity quiz. Your answers will display how much you understand climate change in today's world. Additionally, a snapshot of the facts on the problems relating to weather, ecology, human health, and the economy will be available to you. You will learn that the world needs more climate leaders. Will you consider being one of them?
Does Climate Change Cause You to Experience Anxiety? –The term climate is a mental health issue that is becoming more widely recognized because it corresponds with temperature shifts and violent weather patterns, which in recent years, have become more frequent and have threatened our sense of safety. Climate anxiety is sometimes referred to as “eco-anxiety” and it can be made worse by pre-existing anxiety disorders. Learn what you can do to calm your anxieties about our changing climate, and gain insight into why some people (especially some conservative politicians) deny climate change.
How Big Is Your Ecological Footprint? – The organization formally known as Redefining Progress released an environmental report that educates on how you can minimize your carbon footprint by changing your food, shelter, transportation, and consumption habits. Read and review this text to complete this activity.
The Heat is On: Examining the Relationship Between Global Warming and Our Food Choices – Get in touch with six food facts that you can utilize to ease the burden of global warming. Suggest food choices and shopping options that do not impact rising temperatures in this activity.
Why Do Humans Eat in Such a Complicated Way? – The use of natural resources required to produce food is disproportionate, especially where animal products are concerned. By reading through the material in the activity you can grasp a better understanding of how and why that is.
Exploring the Hi-story My Food Choices are Making – Do you think that there will ever be a war where people fight for resources such as clean water or usable land? Learn the answer through considering the origins of your food choices to understand their ‘story’.
Fewer People, More Habitats – The rise in population growth and resource waste correlates directly to global warming. In this activity, you can learn how.
Is Water the New Oil? – Water scarcity resulting from modern-day food production will result in a huge change in the amount of animal products that you and all people will be able to eat by the year 2050. Learn what a modern-day Native American shaman says about our need to protect water now.
Is Vampire Power Sucking Our Global Energy Supply Dry?– Vampire power is the energy expended by home electronics that are not in use. Challenge yourself in this activity to complete a few things from the text to curb the wasteful use of energy.
Moving to Sweden, a Place That Is Enhancing Its Immunity to the Condition Known as Affluenza – Sweden is a country that has banned advertising directly to children 12 and under. Do you think it makes sense to adopt their ethic by setting an example in your own home? Make an informed decision by completing this activity in which you will be educated against becoming a “buying machine.”
40 MPG or 20 MPG: What Does Your Car Say about Your Relationship with the Road and the Natural Environment? – Make a comparison between the environmental impact of an electric car versus an SUV in this activity. You will also be offered helpful hints for saving fuel and polluting less through your transportation methods.
If Suffering is the Teacher, what is the Lesson? – Is it enough to treat the symptoms of the world suffering without addressing the problems? Do we need to make sacrifices? Answer these tough questions and more in this deep-diving activity.
Letter to the Water, Letter to the Land – Inspiring quotes about Earth are included in this activity for you to analyze. After, you will engage with the material to write your own poetic memos about the land, water, air, etc. Additionally, you can finish writing the words to a song about growing beyond healthy habits of consumption and technological advance.
Tears from the Rainforest, Cries from the Prairies – Pick an endangered species that you feel connected to. Imagine it has gone extinct and you oversee its funeral service. Write what you would say to acknowledge the loss of a wonderful species.
How Will You Help to Create the New American Dream? –The current idea of the American Dream consists of owning a home and two cars while raising 2.5 children with your spouse. This no longer fits with the modern realities we are facing. Can you envision a new dream? How will you help create it? Considering the five tips included in the activity, consider what you want your legacy to be.
The Power of Choosing – In this activity, you will read a short but thought-provoking quotewritten by anAmerican professor, author, and podcast host who is best known for her work on shame, vulnerability, and leadership. You’ll decide if you do or do not exercise your power to choose the kind of life that supports your authentic needs and the Earth’s.
Earth Is Our Home, Even If ‘Saint Ego’ Has Led Us to Believe Otherwise–Ever wish you could travel to space? Do you sometimes wonder if life on Mars would be all that it’s being cracked up to be? In this activity, you will read a quote written by a space explorer who was deeply saddened while observing Earth from space. You will answer a series of questions pertaining to your relationship with yourself, life, and our ancient solar system at large. A visualization exercise is included, which encourages you to view your life from a cosmological perspective versus an egoic perspective.
Do You Suffer from Affluenza? – How do your “wants” take priority over your essential “needs”? Explore this question and more conflicts arising from focusing your energy on your “wants.”
Is the Bane of Your Eco-Existence an Unhealthy Lifestyle? – Is your lifestyle a reflection of insanity? Are you continuing the same habits and expecting different results? Reflect in this activity on the different ways that our culture is hurt by harmful patterns that are creating dysfunctional families. Explore solutions that could lead to a more sane, healthy, and satisfying way of life.
The Life You Were Born to Live, versus the Lifestyle that You’ve Been Socially Conditioned to Want – We have been socially conditioned to want certain futures for ourselves. This activity offers questions that will lead you to an understanding of the life you were truly born to live.
Is Our Culture Creative Enough to Birth a New Earth? – Gain knowledge on three different cultures that display alternative worldviews maintaining the potential to alleviate human suffering.
To Whom Do We Give Our Free Will as Consumers? In what ways have we handed over our free will to others regarding our food choices, lifestyle, or consumer habits? Learn the answer in this activity, and identify what habits are counterintuitive to ecological health.
Would You Like to Be a Lohasian? – 20% of the U.S. population has chosen to join a group of alternative lifestyle consumers. Are you a part of this percentage? Decide by reading about the consumer values of the LOHAS.
Consumer Co-dependent, Consumer Independent – Identified in this activity are two different approaches to caring for yourself and Earth. Categorize your life necessities to determine whether they are serving your best interest in maintaining a natural balance.
Living Deliberately to Create an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle – “Voluntary simplicity” defines a deliberate action of simplifying one's lifestyle. This might include reducing what is difficult, stressful, unhealthy, and unethical about the modern American lifestyle. Get in touch with motivations for simple living and discover the positive impact that voluntary simplicity may have for you.
Exploring a Process for Clearing Your Self-Limiting Beliefs – It is likely that self-limiting beliefs drive you to make unhealthy choices. Engage with a simple process in this activity that helps to identify those beliefs and replace them with more eco-conscious patterns.
Thrifty Is Nifty, Thrifty is Nifty: Regaining a Sense of Frugality – Evaluate your spending habits in this activity. Put your purchases on trial and determine what might be contributing to unnecessary waste.
Reducing Food Packaging: You Can Make a Difference! – How much money goes into food packaging for every dollar spent on groceries? The answer provided in this activity may shock you. Learn the environmental impact that food packaging causes and in addition, ways that you can reduce this waste.
Are You Ready to Stop Dressing in Toxic Clothing Whose Production Isn’t Eco-Conscious? – When coming across clothing stocked in department stores that express your style, it is easy to fall into a toxic romance with them. Toxic, in this sense, is meant literally. Learn how the clothes you wear cause harm to your health and the environment in this activity.
Where Do the Clothes on Your Back Come From? – Look at the label on your clothes. Do you know where they came from? How about the conditions of the factory in which they were produced? Sweatshops are an insidious part of many retail clothing supply chains. Unfortunately, they are also an industry that is easily overlooked while browsing the racks of your favorite store. It is hard to see the workers through their clothes. Get some tips for shopping smarter and becoming a conscious fashionista.
My World Montage – Create a piece of art through the guidance of this activity that reflects your life and your choices. Write a letter to yourself speaking to your present moment in addition to your future.
What Is Your Heart’s Desire? – Contemplate your heart’s desire for a safe, healthy, sane world. In this activity, consider ways in which you could intervene on Earth's behalf to enact restoration.
Exploring the Gift of Music During Hard Times – Music has the power to comfort us and make us more resilient when the future seems unclear. In this activity, you will learn about how music has historically helped people get through hard times. You will say what kinds of music you like and ponder the impact they have on your mental health. You will also learn about how singing can improve your health by stimulating your parasympathetic system.
Which Lens Do You Choose to See Life Through? –Life is important, but it is easy to take it too seriously at times. How can we find a place within ourselves and the world that is not so serious? This activity invites you to explore two lenses through which we can view our life circumstances.
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