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A journey from Mexico to Bangkok
The last week has been a whirlwind, to say the least. From packing up everything I own and selling my car, to spending 24 hours in Mexico (6 of which were in line at the US Border), getting food poisoning, and making my way to Bangkok.
This is the first post of many about my adventures in the upcoming months. I will find myself in some of the hottest, most humid, spiciest places on earth to an…
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Genius Hour - Making Tracks Earth Education
Genius Hour – Making Tracks Earth Education
The Wasatch Mountains at sunset seen from I-15, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Educating students with knowledge of sustainability and entrepreneurial skills will become increasingly important as our society’s actions and implications for the environment play an increasingly fundamental role. Sustainable theory explains that there is a connection between society, the economy, and the…
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Deep Learning - Food Challenge
Deep Learning – Food Challenge
“Food is life… Every time you eat you can make a massive change.” – Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva stands for economic and social justice, women’s rights, and progressing to a more sustainable, equitable, and just future. Her efforts are incredible inspiring. Her words on food reflect a dire necessity our society faces to address…
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Law & Policy in K-12 Digital World
Law & Policy in K-12 Digital World
The digital world is a vast and complex array of information, content, and experiences. Â Without limitations, children and young teens can be exposed to mature content that can jeopardize their mental health and conception of healthy intimate relationships. Â Seeing uncensored material can cause a child to engage in high-risk sexual behavior, violence, addiction, and maladaptive coping mechanisms.
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Innovative Educator: Julie Kazi
Innovative Educator: Julie Kazi
Julie Kazi – an Innovative Educator – hiking in Yosemite National Park
Julie Kazi is not only my mother, but a Connecticut educator of 37 years for a population of students most people overlook, ignore, and are unable to successfully cater to.  She works with the severely disabled. Whether physically, intellectually, emotionally, developmentally, and/or medically compromised, these students…
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Self-Protection and Branding Online
Self-Protection and Branding Online
Personal branding online is the development of a persona and the marketing of oneself to get followers, develop a reputation, and establish the foundation of a persona-based career. As online presence becomes more and more embedded into our daily lives, we are watching young people spend more of their time orchestrating their online personas. In addition to developing an online personality,…
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Health and Wellness in a Digital World
Health and Wellness in a Digital World
The digital world has become a pervasive member of our families, our friendships, and our romantic relationships. Social media has unleashed itself onto all of our lives. The population most greatly affected are adolescents. With their deep desire to be welcomed into a social community and viewed as independent, they turn to the digital landscapes afforded to them through Facebook, Twitter,…
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The online, digital world is a vast and ever-growing community of people from around the globe. People may gather in groups based on similar interests, locations, hobbies, or cute cat videos. Or may discuss politics in online discussion forums. The need for digital etiquette, rules, and morals seems increasingly important especially as more and more people engage in these…
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Source of Vigour - Wasatch Community Gardens
Source of Vigour – Wasatch Community Gardens
Finding a Local Source of Vigour: Wasatch Community Gardens
Mission Statement: To empower people of all ages and incomes to grow and eat healthy, organic, local food.
Vision: We envision an inclusive, robust and vibrant community that is nourished by healthy and affordable food.
Objective: To aid in the development of community, sharing, and stewardshipin the Salt Lake City area by creating…
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The past two weeks were spent in reflection with my attention focused on my consumption habits and patterns. I recognized my behaviors that are often unnoticed, implicit, or fueled by unconscious desires. My daily routines, purchasing patterns, and means of meeting my wants and needs, became under scrutiny. I spent the first week noticing my impact on the environment, and began a project to alter my consumption and environmental foot print the second week. I’ve formatted this post like a journal.
10/28/2018 – In order to start the assignment, I figured I’d go about my routine on this Sunday and day off without any opinions or obstructions to my habits. It was my first day off in a while and I had few plans. I rode my bike to the gym for a morning yoga class. When I got home I realized that the petal was more broken than I had once thought. The petal wouldn’t even stay attached. I decided to be a hermit the rest of the day as I had borrowed a movie from a coworker – a crazy tale of the addicting love of a mother called Dancer in the Dark starring Bjork – and my plans entailed spending a full day in my house without leaving. I followed this heavy movie with Tarzan, a light and fluffy re-visitation to childhood. I ate a muffin for breakfast, some leftovers for lunch, and enjoyed some kettle corn during my movie watching. I did laundry and cleaned the house. It was a really lovely day.
My bike without it’s pedal.
10/29/2018 – Spent the morning in bed watching Netflix.  Made myself a lunch of chicken nuggets and a salad. Had 2 cups of coffee. Went to two doctors appointment and then to work by driving my car. At work I did homework, had some dinner made at the pub, and drank a few liters of water. I drove home and made spaghetti squash for dinner. After dinner I watched more Netflix before going to bed early. Today I recognized my dependence on my computer/TV/Netflix/car. I spent an inordinate amount of time in front of the television, distracting myself from the woes of current events. I began looking at my mail-in ballot for voting, and became overwhelmed by the limited options and perspectives available for legislative representation.
10/30/2018 – Spent the morning reviewing my ballot, completed it and prepared to mail it while eating a grapefruit. Went across town in my car to drop it at the mail box where I also went to the library to grab a DVD. Ate leftovers again today. Pulled the remnants of our spaghetti squash dinner (the seeds and the guts) out of the fridge to bake the seeds with salt and pepper. Looked in the garbage can and recognized the amount of food waste mixed in with our garbage. I thought about the waste it was to mix all the plastic wrapping with food waste. Also thought about the food miles on my coffee that I have almost every morning. And the impact on the environment that comes from getting something like grapefruit in Utah in late October. Thought about the fuel I’d been using to fulfill my own needs the past few days. The availability of resources and convenience of this lifestyle suddenly apparent.
10/31/2018 – Today is Halloween! I thought long and hard about the impacts I was having on the environment with my food waste, the amount of driving I have been doing, and the distancing from recognizing these things that I was doing by spending so much time in front of screens. I’m dressing up as a grandma for Halloween – suddenly I realized that a lot of the conveniences I am experiencing may not be available to my grandchildren. I brought this up to some friends, many of them didn’t want to talk about it. Others deflected the blame to generations before us. Scapegoating acts as a means to not feel something. My curiosity began to arise. What can we actually do as individuals in the face of environmental devastation? Is it our fault, corporations’ fault, or our grandparent’s fault? Or do we blame the system we are in and accept helplessness?
  The set up of our garbage, recycling, and brown bin services.
A week of garbage for two people.
11/1/2018 – This morning I took our garbage out and recognized how heavy it was. I thought of all the food waste that I had noticed in the trash. Thinking of my habits with composting and how these habits have changed over the years. I thought back to Ohio and Philadelphia… the years in my life when I had composted routinely. I do not compost anymore. My food waste just goes to land fills. I realized that I am wasting the opportunity for my food waste to become soil. Instead of becoming a contributor to greenhouse gas, I could contribute to gardens and urban sustainability.  I did an internet search and found out that Salt Lake City has an established composting program included with the recycling and garbage pick up. I posted this brochure online to advocate for the city-wide composting available.
Many of my friends responded with interest – recognizing that they have wanted to compost but many don’t have yards. The convenience of it is so enticing! Since living here I put my own yard waste and food waste into the brown bins assuming it was probably fine.  Turns out that food waste is actually promoted and advertised to go into our brown bins here to create soil. Turns out I have the tool to compost at the tip of my fingers. Noticed that on Netflix the actors don’t differentiate trash, recycling, or compost. They always have single-use water bottles in hand and portray wasteful spending. Curious the impact this might have on people.
11/2/2018 – Read an article from the Huffington Post called The Crisis of American Consumerism. Learned about simplifying lifestyles and how “we already have what we need”. There is a trend to buy the latest fashion, technology, etc. I thought of how liberating my life has been since I rejected this type of lifestyle in the sense that I had experienced it growing up. My family was one that was focused on acquiring goods, my siblings are still in that category. Nowadays, I try to consume as little as possible…but have a tendency to overindulge in easy screen time.
As long as consumption is focused on satisfying basic human needs — safety, shelter, food, clothing, health care, education — it is not consumerism. But when, on attempts to satisfy these higher needs through the simple acquisition of goods and services, consumption turns into consumerism — and consumerism becomes a social disease.
Amitai Etzioni, The Crisis of American Consumerism
11/3/2018 – Decided to start composting in my house. Found a kitchen counter compost container for $21.99 on Amazon. Began talking with friends about sustainability efforts within our personal lives more today.
11/4/2018 – Talked to my partner about starting to compost and purchasing a counter container from Amazon. Through the resulting conversation, I realized that I was still hung up in consumer-driven experience that I failed to recognize that even purchasing this container would be contributing to the mass-consumption that our culture partakes in. After some research, it turns out that steel manufacturing has an average CO2 intensity of 1.77 t CO2/t, meaning in order to produce the steal container the carbon footprint would contribute to this massive production of greenhouse gas. Meanwhile the kitchen scraps in the average household produce 860 kg CO2 per year. So , the “carbon off-set” of my composting regiment in our household wouldn’t be significant compared to the steal industry’s output. Therefore, contributing to that industry through the consumption/purchase of a steel item would be ludicrous! With that, I went into our kitchen to see if we had an appropriate container that could be used for a compost receptacle.  Something that could be used to sort our food waste from our trash to aid in our efforts to compost. I found an old protein powder container that was nearly empty.  I moved the contents into a spare jar and cleaned out the protein shake container. I am prepared to label it and hand make a sheet that will illustrate what can/cannot be composted for our reference.  I’m so excited to be taking this composting thing one step further by reusing the container that it will go into! I already am feeling creative and innovative after making this decision. I’m glad that I have a partner that thinks in this way because I was prepared to delve into buying a container for the counter and perpetuate the blasphemous consumer culture!
  11/5/2018 – It is my birthday and when asked what I “got” for my birthday and how I would treat myself, I didn’t really know how to respond. To me birthdays are a means of being glutinous for attention and belongings. I did receive some snow shoes from my partner, but I’ve wanted a pair for over two years. Besides that, my birthday was spent like any other day. I was content with the sameness and the routine I’ve established. Phooey to the social influence that I need anything more.
 11/6/2018 – First day of our compost bucket!  Made a handmade guide for our cabinet to place next to my yoga schedule.  Loving the positive vibes going on in the house. Egg shells, tea bags. It’s great to have a little project started in the house.  Still haven’t talked to my landlord about using the brown bin for compost waste. I’m sure he’ll be okay with it as it doesn’t really affect him.  Will go about that tomorrow. Had another conversation about sustainability and environmental health at work today. It’s coming up a lot more often and it’s cool to hear about people’s own experiences navigating this concept.  I really miss gardening. Also, I set up a bed for the stray cats that I’ve been feeding 🙂
11/8/2018 – The past two days have been an interesting transition! My partner has never had a compost bin on his counter so it’s been a learning process for him to separate his compostable items. We had friends over for dinner tonight, and it was great to prepare the meal and be able to use the bin. I forgot how much food waste we develop going about our daily lives.
Our trash after removing food waste was mostly plastic wrappings.
11/9/2018 – Our compost bucket is starting to fill up! I’ve been so excited to bring the first bit to the brown bin.
11/11/2018 – You know, I used to be really good at the whole sustainability thing. I led week long educational events at college to teach people how to compost and reuse their water bottles. Heck, I even contributed to the founding of our compost program at my alma mater. I lived in the environmental and social justice house called the Tree House and was an avid member (and president) of the Environment and Wildlife Club, which won multiple awards. The longer I’ve been out of school, it’s been 5 years now, the more and more of my sustainable habits have been lost to convenience and ease. I recognize now, more than ever, that I have to put the effort into my personal life to continue to be a steward for the environment. It isn’t enough to just believe in these practices, I need to be carrying them out in my daily life. Making conscious decisions, spending and investing my money intentionally, and allowing the necessary changes to occur throughout my life. Heck, I might even bring back the lifestyle I used to have by starting a garden. Anything is possible with enough effort and choice. I see that now more than ever and am empowered to dive into these types of choices.
Our compost bucket after a week. Filled to the brim!
We added our compost to the brown bin, some food scraps, a dead plant, and all the leaf matter from our landlord cleaning our yard.
Here’s to creating a sustainable lifestyle in my adult life!
References:
Etzioni, Amitai (2012). The Crisis of American Consumerism. Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-etzioni/the-crisis-of-american-co_b_1855390.html.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2011). Food Wastage Footprint and Climate Change. Retrieved from http://www.fao.org/3/a-bb144e.pdf
Green Spec (2018). Steel Production and Environmental Impact. Retrieved from http://www.greenspec.co.uk/building-design/steel-products-and-environmental-impact/.
Salt Lake City (2018). Sustainability – Compost Can. Retrieved from https://www.slc.gov/sustainability.
A Reflective Journal on Consumption Patterns The past two weeks were spent in reflection with my attention focused on my consumption habits and patterns.Â
Learn, Love, Be: A Deep Inquiry on Roots Charter High School
Learn, Love, Be: A Deep Inquiry on Roots Charter High School
“An environment-based education movement, at all levels of education, will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.” – Richard Louv
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Salt Lake City, and much of Utah, is guided by conservative frameworks. The public school systems are rigidly mechanistic and designed in an antiquated…
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Wilderness Therapy and Health Promotion
Wilderness Therapy and Health Promotion
“The high mountains offer containment when you have lost your own capacity to love, and they hold you until you find the way home.” – Maggie Ziegler
 HEALTH PROMOTING SCHOOLS – A HISTORY & PURPOSE
Modern education through school place where we take young humans and create adults.  Curriculum focus will dictate the desires, interests, and abilities of an individual.  At one point, education’s…
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Greenwashing - Progress Through Consumption
Greenwashing – Progress Through Consumption
Greenwashing (n) – a term “used to refer to deceptive efforts made by producers of goods and services to convince consumers that their products have good or benign environmental impacts.” (Mulligan 2018, pg 27)
Modern day grocery stores are flooded with claims of “eco-friendly”, “green”, and “farm-raised” to pique the interest of consumers interested in a sustainable future. Packaging is green…
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Tendril love, new and brave. Blatant moon over desert, swollen entirely. Deep field of coyote sirens, like gentle muses. The cacophony of birth back into the woods. Blushing morning, stained chin wet with peach kisses. Magpies, sage fire, and friendship. To what celestial grace do I owe such divine gratitude?
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Dust Bunnies
They say that time and distance change you, yet. Yet. Here I am again, feeling almost the same. It’s been months and I still feel your words on my lips, my voice a slow echo of your mentality. I refuse to lap into hours the same bestial apathy anymore. My brain is full of green shadows and the familiar dust bunnies of childhood. I never hated this.
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How do I say this? Your voice sounds just like I remember a soft frog like call with mist on it’s end. I can feel your smile on my neck, it shrinks my bones and flirts with my shoulders. We haven’t talked much but your presence is soothing. In crowded bars, I yearn to turn to you of all people and to talk in a made up language of lost shores and swimming naked.Â
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