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Lovin' Nature With Brier: Advocacy Project: Smoking Fact Find
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Sunday, December 12, 2010. Advocacy Project: Smoking Fact Find. Millions of Americans each year are effected by tobacco use. In Minnesota alone over 630 million family members. Will continue to smoke each year. Many of these family members will then expose loved ones to many harmful effects. Deaths per year worldwide. As future Health Educators, we should all be aware of the harmful effects that smoking has on the economy, our loved ones and our bodies. 1) Review the links below. We all pay the price.
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Kristen's Coral Reef: 2010-10-03
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Get Your Feet Wet. Welcome to my blog! Please take a couple minutes to watch this video from National Geographic on Why the Ocean Matters. You might be surprised with what you learn. Friday, October 8, 2010. Challenging the Way I Think. I hope to continue this process as we learn more about advocating for health and how we can make a difference. This is a growing process for me and I look forward to what lies ahead in this class. Links to this post. Share and Voice: Breathe Free Dilemma. Labels: Share an...
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Lovin' Nature With Brier: October 2010
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Sunday, October 31, 2010. Eye Opener: Junk On The Brain. Part 1: Most came from thesaurus.com or wiki results. Antiques: "Old object, often of great value", found on thesaurus.com. Junk: "Odds and ends", garbage. Found on thesaurus.com. Flea Market: "Open-aired street market", found on thesaurus.com. Thrift Market: same as resale shop. Upcycling: "Process of turning wasted materials into new materials or products with higher environmental value". Found on wikipedia.com. Upcycling: Couldnt find anything!
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Sonny Days Ahead: 2010-10-31
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Friday, November 5, 2010. In the previous weeks I have primarily learned three key topics: various kinds of environmental dilemmas that face our nation today, how to design and create a blog header, and junking. I am someone who really enjoys creating and crafting so this was a fun project to do! I have never used. I hope you can tell by the looks of my header that I enjoyed the website. They also make great personalized gifts to give to others. Links to this post. Wednesday, November 3, 2010. A shop tha...
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Sonny Days Ahead: 2010-10-24
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010. Read 'n' Seed 5: Fourth and Final Review of Do One Green Thing. For the fourth and final quarter I read the last section or part of the book. This time the primary topic of discussion was regarding ‘Transportation.’ This section included chapter 13 which expanded from page 215 to 225. The overall main topic, as I mentioned, was about transportation the each chapter was focused on discussing walking, biking, and ride sharing. What we can really take away from this is that know...
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Sonny Days Ahead: 2010-12-05
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 5: Weekly Review and Final Reflection. I will place any extra food I have after each meal into a bucket to be dropped off and composted at. A composting site) each Tuesday evening between 5:00-7:00pm. One challenge that I encountered was the time issue. I'm not too worried about this, however, since it does not seem to be slowing down the momentum of my roommates! It feels great seeing my roommates take initiative themselves and compost with me!
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Treeific Time with Alyssa: Reflection Weeks 13-14 Combined with Reflection: Overall Course
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Thursday, December 16, 2010. Reflection Weeks 13-14 Combined with Reflection: Overall Course. This is the last post to be done for the class. It seems very strange because I have been blogging so much for this class that it is normal for me to check my blog all the time. We had to do a blog post to our political representative about the bill we choose for the advocacy project. I thought it was very helpful to learn how to write a letter to a representative to advocate for something. Yay, I love that you ...
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Treeific Time with Alyssa: Eye Opener: Online Learning Activities
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Monday, December 13, 2010. Eye Opener: Online Learning Activities. Sarah asked us to use Google Transit to find three places we go to a lot. I put in the directions for those places to get alternate routes by either walking or the bus. Occupational Hazard Crossword: Samantha. Sam made a cross word puzzle for us to do. We had to search for the answers. 3 lead 1. inhalation. 5 blood 2. decades. 6 symptoms 4. wash. The Effects of Smoking: Kristy. Water Vocabulary Match: Calista. 1 Emissions from cars are th...
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Treeific Time with Alyssa: 2010-10-17
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010. Read'n'Seed 4: Third quarter of "Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World. For this quarter of the book I read 8 chapters which covered pages 54-108. The main topics of these chapters are source reduction and wood reduction. Is the change in the design of materials and wood reduction is reducing the amount of wood-based packaging. Boxboard:Often used as a secondary packaging for items. Solid-wood packaging materials:Building these pallets consume 40% o...
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Sonny Days Ahead: Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 5: Weekly Review and Final Reflection
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 5: Weekly Review and Final Reflection. I will place any extra food I have after each meal into a bucket to be dropped off and composted at. A composting site) each Tuesday evening between 5:00-7:00pm. One challenge that I encountered was the time issue. I'm not too worried about this, however, since it does not seem to be slowing down the momentum of my roommates! It feels great seeing my roommates take initiative themselves and compost with me!