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Professional Life: This article gives information for how to be an eco-friendly clinician. It gives tips for how to reduce energy and resource consumption, reuse office materials, and recycle. A healthy eco-friendly environment is important for both clinicians as well as patients. 

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Professional Life: I reblogged this to emphasize the need for recycled books. Speech pathologist use a lot of books when working with patients, and it would be very efficient for therapist to use recycled books, or books they have at home. 

One of many hidden crannies in my favorite used bookstore–Recycled Books in Denton, TX. I wish all bookstores came with the possibility of getting lost!

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Professional Life: This is a green office chair that I could use at my desk in my future workplace.  It’s made in a greenhouse manufacturing facility that uses 100% renewable electric energy, as well as is made of 46% recycled content and has 93% recyclability. 

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Professional Life: This is a photo of rechargeable hearing aids. For audiology, I can encourage patients to use rechargeable hearing aids. Traditional hearing aids use zinc batteries that usually make their way into landfills at some point or another. By using rechargeable hearing aids, we can reduce this by using sustainable energy. 

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Professional Life: Working as a Speech Pathologist with children requires cognitive tests that observe how children can follow directions, and use their speech abilities to sequence things. Buildopolis is a recycled cardboard fort building toy. Buildopolis has eco-friendly materials that speech therapists and parents can use to monitor their child’s skills and abilities. 

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Personal Life: This video is a great resource for providing how to make reusable shopping bags. If you have a sewing machine you are perfectly capable of doing this! My grandmother bought me a sewing machine for Christmas one year, so I will use this video to show me how to create these bags. I am guilty of using plastic bags from stores in spite of being lazy, but this video will help me make my own personalized grocery bags for the future. 

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Personal Life: I am guilty of having plastic storage containers to store food. I wanted to find other ways to store food to reduce my use of plastic, and this picture gives a lot of great tips that I didn't even realize you could do! I never would have thought to wrap bread in cloth or even a pillow case!

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Personal Life: I have recently had an interest in growing my own vegetables, because i started doing it at home during the beginning of quarantine. However, I am back in my apartment in Auburn and have felt like I can no longer do this with limited resources. This article is a great resource for providing tips on how to garden from an apartment, and even what type of foods will best grow in this environment. 

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Personal Life: This is a restaurant in my home town, Chattanooga Tennessee, called Flying Squirrel. Flying Squirrel uses local ingredients to make their food and it is also Tennessee Green Hospitality Certified. Whenever I am home, this will be one of my food choices because it reassures me that this place is helping our Planet Earth. 

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Personal Life: I am reblogging this because it is a visionary that I can go back to and see what all I can change about my lifestyle. The things listed on this checklist are simple things to replace within your life to ensure you are living more eco-friendly. 

Low-Impact Living Checklist… How many of these can you check off already?

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Personal Life: I reblogged this because it made me think. I did not realize that food waste is becoming such a serious issue. This blog made me realize I need to take action on reducing my own food waste, because I admit that I do not compost food. 

My household is a culprit of this massive problem, but we strive for less and less for food waste every week by making conscious shopping choices, cooking more reasonable portions for dinner/leftovers, and eating out less. Then we compost what food we must “throw away”! 

What are you doing to reduce your food waste?

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Personal Life:The Fairmined Standard requires minimal organizations to articulate responsible artisanal and small scale mining. Thanks to the Fairmined Standard, anyone who buys gold can access responsibly mined, traceable gold and support responsibly managed community mines.This concept shows how we can build ethical jewelry, and support environmental protection among gold mining. This is important to me because I love jewelry, and would like to be knowledgeable about where my gold jewelry is coming from. This video explains how The Fairmined Initiative creates gold to be proud of.

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Personal Life: This is an article about which musicians use their voice and resources to encourage fans to “go green”. This article was really interesting to me because I learned that a lot of my favorite artists care about sustainability. Rolling Stone also describes how each artists plays their part in encouraging environmentalism. One fact I learned from this article is Jack Johnson requires distributors to engage in Earth-friendly implementations, as well as producing his CD covers from recycled paper. I will definitely be purchasing one of these recycled covers! 

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Personal Life: The making of records is not the most eco-friendly process. Records themselves are made of refined oil that can take thousands of years too decompose. Machines used to press records require fossil fuels, and chemicals. However, one thing that can be fixed to become more eco-friendly is the packaging in a record. This article goes into detail about how artists and vinyl producing companies can make their packaging more sustainable. This article interests me because I buy a lot of records, and would like to be more knowledgeable about which packaging types to look for in the future. 

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Personal Life: Designer Matthew Lim created this eco-friendly turntable with headphones, made out of recyclable and sustainable materials. The turntable incorporates cork, which makes up 10 percent of the turntables design, as well as 20 percent of the accompanying headphones. Other materials used include bioplastic, high-density fiberboard and aluminum. Lim’s purpose for this turntable is for the youth to be able to enjoy the sound of vinyl music, while creating an earth-friendly design. I have a lot of interest in vinyl music, so I would definitely consider purchasing this product.