Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Donate $500,000 in Support of Training, Education and Skills Development for Indigenous Youth and Young Adults
Education and training programs co-created with Indigenous communities build capacity locally — a sustainable solution to complex water challenges.
TORONTO, March 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively announce a donation to Canadian charity Water First Education & Training Inc. in support of locally-based, hands-on skills training and education programs. Reynolds’ & Lively’s $500,000 contribution will provide resources for more young Indigenous adults to become water treatment plant operators and environmental water science technicians, as well as engage Indigenous school-aged students in water science.
“Access to clean drinking water is a basic human right. Canada is home to over 20% of the planet’s freshwater — an abundance that’s envied around the world. There’s absolutely no reason Indigenous communities should not have access to safe, clean water. All the individuals involved, whether they are operating water systems or monitoring their local water bodies, are critical. We appreciate Water First’s focus on supporting young, Indigenous adults to become certified water operators and environmental technicians. These folks are helping to ensure sustainable access to safe, clean water locally, now and for the future. Blake and I are thrilled to support this important work,” shares Reynolds.
One of the most fundamental challenges in Canada today is the lack of sustainable access to safe, clean water in many Indigenous communities. Successive federal governments have failed to address the issue, with the likelihood of having no access to safe, clean water still far more prevalent in the lives of Indigenous Peoples, compared to non-Indigenous populations in Canada. At least 15%, or approximately one in six First Nations communities in Canada, are still under a drinking water advisory. Everyone has a right to safe, clean water. The water crisis in Indigenous communities is unacceptable.
Every community’s experience and relationship with water is unique. Due to the complexity of water challenges faced by Indigenous communities, an integrated approach involving multiple solutions is critical for long-term sustainability. Nobody understands this more than the people who live there.
Many Indigenous communities with water challenges have identified the need for more young, qualified and local personnel to support solving water challenges. In response, Water First collaborates with community leaders to design and customize local water-focused education and training programs to align with community goals and needs, which create opportunities to attract and train young adults in the water science field. These partnerships are built on trust, meaningful collaboration and reciprocal learning.
Water First has been in discussions with Ryan and Blake since January to share more about the organization’s approach to partnering and collaborating with Indigenous communities to help increase local water-science capacity.
“From our first conversation with Ryan, his genuine interest in supporting education and training opportunities for young Indigenous adults and youth has been clear. Many Indigenous community partners are reaching out to Water First to explore options to strengthen local technical capacity in the water field. Ryan and Blake’s tremendous support will significantly increase Water First’s ability to offer hands-on skills training to more Indigenous youth and young adults from coast to coast to coast,” said John Millar, executive director and founder at Water First. “We are proud to support the steps Indigenous communities are taking to address local water challenges independently and for the long term.”
Spencer Welling, Water First intern from Wasauksing First Nation shares, "I am doing this for myself, my family and community. It’s important to know how things are done and gives you a better appreciation for it. It’s a good career to have, which I’m sure would ease my parents’ minds knowing that. It also feels good knowing that my community will have a local water treatment operator at the plant for at least a couple decades.”
Anyone interested in learning about Water First and its education and training programs can find out more at www.waterfirst.ngo.
Water First Education & Training Inc. (Water First) is a registered Canadian charity that works in partnership with Indigenous communities to address water challenges through education, training and meaningful collaboration. Since 2009, Water First has collaborated with 56 Indigenous communities located in the lands now known as Canada while supporting Indigenous youth and young adults to pursue careers in water science.
The Inner Matrix: A Mind-Science Fusion for Those Who Want More Out of Life
Denver CO, March 24, 2022 — Do you feel as if you’ve professionally or personally plateaued? Are you plagued by stress or anxiety? Are you searching for greater meaning and purpose?
For more than 20 years, author and Inner Matrix Systems founder Joey Klein has studied a range of healing modalities, from psychology and neuroscience to martial arts and mediation. He synthesized effective elements from multiple disciplines into a single approach that he says can help others train their thoughts and feelings to discontinue destructive patterns, engage their formidable internal resources and create powerful visions for their lives.
“Each of us has our own Inner Matrix, which consists of our emotions, thought strategies and nervous system, that drives our actions, behavior, and ultimately creates our experience of life,” Klein said.
He shares his techniques and practical exercises in his new book, The Inner Matrix: Leveraging the Art & Science of Personal Mastery to Create Real Life Results.
Aimed primarily at high level executives, entrepreneurs and business leaders, The Inner Matrixcontains insights of value to anyone looking to make positive changes in their lives, including:
- A simple, practical approach to managing your emotions, thought strategies and nervous system to channel success;
- Ways to develop fulfillment, peace and inspiration;
- How to create the neurological alignment needed to achieve any desired outcome;
- Methods for designing a rich and meaningful life;
- Case studies, scientific references, expert insights;
- And much more.
Ultimately, The Inner Matrix is a comprehensive guide for realigning your emotional, mental and physical states to support the achievement of your most important personal and professional goals.
“When you master your internal state, you master your world,” Klein said. “It is just that simple.”
About the Author
Joey Klein is the founder and CEO of Inner Matrix Systems, a personal mastery training system for high achievers. He has been interviewed by Self Magazine, INC.com, Yahoo Finance andNBC. Klein has coached leaders from some of the world’s top companies, including IBM, Coca Cola and the World Health Organization.
Self-Professed City Girl Shares Unforgettable True Story of Life Above the Arctic Circle
Harrisburg, PA, March 24, 2022 — It was frigid that night — 35 below — and Ernest “Tiger” Burch made an honest mistake. He brought the Coleman lantern inside their primitive house before lighting it. In spite of the flames that threatened to engulf Tiger and his young bride, Deanne, the couple made it out safely. Then Tiger ran back inside to save his thesis.
“When you’re young, you don’t think that tragedy is going to strike you at all,” Deanne recalled in a recent interview.
At the tender age of 23, a naïve but very much in love Deanne Burch did what all good wives were expected to do in the 1960s: she put the needs of her husband first. She accompanied Tiger to a remote, Inuit (Inupiaq) village in Kivalina, Alaska, where Tiger was conducting research for his Ph.D. To say that the environment and living conditions were harsh would be a considerable understatement.
In Journey Through Fire and Ice: Shattered Dreams Above the Arctic Circle, Deanne pours her memories onto paper, immortalizing in vivid detail their experiences on the barrier island 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, including the ways in which the Inupiaq people supported the Burches throughout both exhilarating triumphs and agonizing tragedies.
In Kivalina, Deanne lived on the edge of two worlds — the one she left behind in the lower 48 and the one where she reluctantly participated in all aspects of the women’s lives. Skinning seals, cleaning and drying fish, and cutting beluga and caribou to store became her way of life. Plumbing, running water and electricity were not available. Loneliness was a constant companion until a few women befriended her.
During a span of six days, Deanne and Tiger narrowly escaped death during a camping trip, and Tiger suffered severe burns from the fire in their house. He spent three months in the hospital receiving treatment for seared lungs and horrific burns on his face and hands. His lungs never recovered from this ordeal.
When he was finally released from the hospital, he returned to the village with Deanne to complete the study. The life-threatening and harrowing experiences in Alaska transformed Deanne into a woman of strength who learned how to embrace challenge.
Over 50 years later, she remembers that young girl who left on an unknown journey that will live in her heart forever.
Author Deanne Burch was born and raised in Canada and attended the University of Toronto, obtaining B.A. degrees in liberal arts and social work. After the Alaska journey, she and her husband eventually settled in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, where they lived until his death.
Deanne spent 30 years as a professional international photographer who taught and lectured in the U.S. and Canada. She published several articles in photography magazines and journals. Since retiring in 2014, she devoted herself to writing short stories and children’s stories. Journey Through Fire and Ice: Shattered Dreams Above the Arctic Circle was published in March 2021.
The New Superfood: Gluten Free Flours, Celebrity Chef’s Health Issue Cooking Up Big Business
New York, NY, March 24, 2022 — Chef Jen Peters has made it possible for those with gluten intolerance to safely indulge in delicious homemade bread, pasta and pancakes; battered chicken, fish and tempura; and even vanilla bean cake using her artisan gluten-free flour blends.
Chef Jen was a protégé of Chef Bruno Marti (the beloved godfather of fine dining cuisine in Canada), and worked and trained in Michelin-starred restaurants, where she created culinary masterpieces for others to enjoy even as she suffered the horrible effects of Celiac disease that went undiagnosed for 20 years.
With the answer she finally needed, she began researching and creating a line of gluten-free, all-purpose baking blends that would allow her to continue making popular kitchen staples like bread, pasta and pastries without sacrificing taste or texture, or settling for low-quality alternatives.
In 2012, Chef Jen finally perfected her recipe and founded Nextjen Gluten-Free with her partner (and husband), Chef Hamid Salimian, who has built a reputation as a “chef’s chef”, winning the respect of his peers for his eye for detail, insistence on quality, and his commitment to mentoring the next generation of chefs. As the co-founder of the company, Chef Hamid is also its food photographer. He acts as a culinary consultant for national brands such as Earls Kitchen + Bar, and shares his knowledge and expertise with a new generation of chiefs as an instructor in the VCC Culinary Arts program.
In 2021, the husband and wife duo teamed up with Matthew Clayton and rebranded the company as The Good Flour Company. Today, their products are used in more than 70 restaurants nationwide and are available for retail purchase online. The Good Flour Company’s gluten-free products are also GMO-free, allergen free and contain ingredients with the highest nutritional content available.
There are many vital statistics that fitness trainers should track. From tracking your clients' progress, to revenue and expenses, to time spent on specific tasks, there are metrics you should be compiling every day.
We've put together a list of 14 Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for fitness trainers to track which will help you monitor the health of your personal training business and track your business goals over time.
Client Retention Rate
Your client retention rate is an important metric to monitor because it's directly related to the stability of your income over time. Customer engagement has been an integral part of the success of every business either through traditional communication or digital channels. Hence, the longer a client stays with you, the more likely they can sign up for additional programs or refer their friends and family members.
You may also want to consider what makes people leave. Maybe it's the level of difficulty in the program or your communication style. Either way, you'll want to find out what works and doesn't to keep clients coming back for more.
Percentage Of Clients Who Sign Up For Additional Services
This is another great KPI that tells you whether people are satisfied with your services and come back for more. For example, if the majority of people who sign up for a 12-week session continue for additional packages, then they're probably getting good results and enjoying their training experience.
This allows you to try different approaches, such as online coaching or creating an app to help your clients get better results from home, increasing average daily attendance.
People who aren't interested in repeating sessions may look for something different than what you offer. In that case, it might be best to try partnering with other fitness professionals.
Revenue Per Client
Monitoring your revenue per client helps you identify whether or not you are charging enough for your services. This gives you an idea of what the average client is willing to pay for your health club, so if your numbers are low, maybe it's time to review the lifetime value of your program and increase rates accordingly.
At the same time, revenue per client also tells you how many clients need to sign up for a package for you to meet your income goals. If this number keeps climbing, then perhaps it's time to hire more trainers since there aren't enough hours in the week!
Number Of Hours Worked Per Week
This important KPI tells you how much time you're investing into your fitness studios. If it's more than 40 hours per week, then chances are you either need to hire additional trainers or delegate tasks to other members of your team so that your workload is manageable.
Exceeding the 40-hour mark decreases productivity and makes it difficult to meet deadlines, so be mindful of this number.
Days Between Customer Inquiries
This metric measures the speed at which new opportunities come in, giving you an idea of how successful your marketing efforts are. If there is a sudden drop-off, that means that something might be wrong with your website or social media accounts (maybe people aren't seeing them).
On the other hand, if you're getting inquiries consistently throughout the week, then it means you're doing an excellent job of offering your services and people are finding your website.
Client Feedback Rate
It's important to solicit feedback from your clients periodically to keep track of average class attendance, how they feel about the program, whether they are getting results, what can be improved, etc.
If there is an overall trend of positive feedback, then this gives you the green light to continue business operations as usual. If people are consistently unhappy with something, it may be time for a change or to review certain aspects of your process for everything to run smoothly.
Relative Importance Ratings
This metric tells you where most of your time is spent, allowing you to see which aspects of running a fitness business require the most attention. If health and wellness are your primary focus, then you'll want to be sure that health and wellness-related tasks take up a significant portion of your working hours.
On the other hand, if fitness classes are where people spend excessive time, it might be time to reevaluate what you offer and how often classes occur. Schedule changes can have a considerable impact on this KPI.
Number Of New Inquiries
This number tells you if your marketing efforts are attracting new customers or if it's time to revamp your website or social media accounts (again). If inquiries drop off suddenly after high initial interest, but before anything has been set in stone, there may be something wrong with either your payment gateway or your website.
It's good to know these things before people book, as it saves you from having to reschedule or refund customers later on, which is both time-consuming and costly.
Number And Percentage Of Cancellations
The number of cancellations can be a double-edged sword: On one hand, if this number is high, it might indicate that people haven't been finding the value in your services and have decided to stop coming. This is not necessarily a bad thing if that is really what they think after trying it out for a week or two.
However, constantly high rates of people canceling means that something about your business might not resonate with customers – either its price point, convenience, or quality – so take steps to address the root of the issue.
This rate shows you what percentage of your total customers have canceled their membership over a specific time period. If the number is too high, it might indicate that people's needs are not being fulfilled, so consider looking at areas such as convenience to determine if there are ways to improve this aspect.
It could also mean that something about your business model doesn't work well for a particular type or group of people. Perhaps they cancel because they don't see results fast enough and get discouraged? In any case, this KPI can help provide valuable insight into how successful your services really are, which should ultimately help you improve going forward.
Percentage Of Sales From New Customers
This number tells you how effective your marketing strategy is at attracting new members. If this number is consistently low, it might be time to try out a different approach. Perhaps offering more incentives such as free sessions or contests can help increase conversions?
On the other hand, if 90% of your customers are coming from referrals, then you may want to invest in improved online marketing and branding for future business.
Return On Investment (ROI)
This KPI allows you to track whether or not your efforts in running a business in the fitness industry are paying off. If most of your annual revenue is coming from people who signed up after attending an event you hosted with guest speakers, it's safe to say that these types of promotional activities work well for you and should continue.
On the other hand, if most of your sales are being made online or through word of mouth, perhaps investing in improving your website or search engine optimization would be beneficial.
Competitor Revenue
This metric tells you how much revenue the competition is making. To what profit margin are they successful? Do their prices match or complement your services? How long have they been around compared to you? Have they recently run any promotions similar to yours?
This KPI can help indicate whether there might be something missing from the overall service offering, allowing you to identify where you could potentially grow your business.
Number Of Unique Visitors
This metric tells you how many people visit your site and check out your services. If this number isn't increasing over time, perhaps your web design isn't engaging enough, or you need to improve your marketing campaign and SEO strategy.
Even if this number is high, but the conversions are low, it could mean that something about the flow of information on your website might be causing people to drop off at certain stages, in which case you should look to fix whatever may be causing the issue.
Number Of Members Joined Per Month
How many members join per month tells you how successful your membership site is at bringing new clients onto your team.
This KPI can also show you whether or not promotions and pricing strategies are effective – if more people start joining each month after a specific event, it means that there was something unique about this particular promotion.
So, consider repeating it in the future, or it could be an indication that your prices are too high. It could also indicate that you should be offering a more comprehensive range of services if people aren't signing up for the most affordable package.
Conclusion
There are many KPIs that can be tracked throughout personal training businesses. The 14 listed here are just a few of the most commonly used. Ultimately it comes down to what information you need to extract from this data to understand your business better and ultimately improve its performance.
Fitness trainers have access to an incredible amount of data at their fingertips. With the right tools, they can easily track every important metric to their training businesses.
Move Past Mental or Physical Suffering With 5 Simple Steps
Boca Raton, FL, March 21, 2022 — Is it possible to find effective relief from emotional or physical suffering in as little as one hour? Andrew Hahn, Psy.D., and Joan Beckett, L.M.H.C., have been cultivating their revolutionary Life Centered Therapy (LCT) for decades, and they say it can be used as a blueprint for transforming most problems.
“There’s a lot of suffering in the world, and I think we have a very, very simple, powerful way that — in every hour you do this work — you get freer from your suffering, and you get results,” Dr. Hahn said in a recent interview.
In their new book, The One-Hour Miracle: A 5-Step Process to Guide Your Self-Healing, the authors explain how to apply Life Centered Therapy to heal from pain that is physical (such as chronic pain, asthma, addictions); emotional or mental (including depression, PTSD, OCD, paranoia); relational (releasing destructive patterns); and spiritual (alienation, despair, inertia). And sometimes, according to the authors, the transformation takes just one hour.
Filled with testimonials from real people who have benefitted from this approach when other methods failed to help, The One-Hour Miracle provides readers with an entirely new way of understanding their suffering, giving them inspiration and hope that they can create miracles in their own lives.
“The One-Hour Miracle includes a protocol that allows people to facilitate this process on their own by finding the root cause of their suffering and shifting it,” the authors said. “This framework helps them live engaged lives of freedom, peace, joy, wisdom, and vitality.”
The authors provide readers with clear, step-by-step instructions that can be implemented immediately to achieve authentic transformation. Additionally, therapists reading this book will have enough information to start using the approach with their own clients.
About the Authors Andrew Hahn, Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist and podcast host of Guided Self Healing/Fearless Living; and Joan Beckett, L.M.H.C., MBA, M.A., C.A.G.S., a licensed mental health counselor and former divisional controller of a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company, are thought leaders in the field of consciousness and spiritual, energy and somatic psychology. They are principals of the Life Centered Therapy Institute.
The One-Hour Miracle: A 5-Step Process to Guide Your Self-Healing Publisher: HCI Books Release Date: April 5, 2022 ISBN-10: 0757324150 ISBN-13: 9780757324154 Trade Paperback, 304 pages Available from Amazon.com, BN.com and other online retailers
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The New Superfood: Gluten Free Flours, Celebrity Chef’s Health Issue Cooking Up Big Business
New York, NY, March 21, 2022 — Chef Jen Peters has made it possible for those with gluten intolerance to safely indulge in delicious homemade bread, pasta and pancakes; battered chicken, fish and tempura; and even vanilla bean cake using her artisan gluten-free flour blends.
Chef Jen was a protégé of Chef Bruno Marti (the beloved godfather of fine dining cuisine in Canada), and worked and trained in Michelin-starred restaurants, where she created culinary masterpieces for others to enjoy even as she suffered the horrible effects of Celiac disease that went undiagnosed for 20 years.
With the answer she finally needed, she began researching and creating a line of gluten-free, all-purpose baking blends that would allow her to continue making popular kitchen staples like bread, pasta and pastries without sacrificing taste or texture, or settling for low-quality alternatives.
In 2012, Chef Jen finally perfected her recipe and founded Nextjen Gluten-Free with her partner (and husband), Chef Hamid Salimian, who has built a reputation as a “chef’s chef”, winning the respect of his peers for his eye for detail, insistence on quality, and his commitment to mentoring the next generation of chefs. As the co-founder of the company, Chef Hamid is also its food photographer. He acts as a culinary consultant for national brands such as Earls Kitchen + Bar, and shares his knowledge and expertise with a new generation of chiefs as an instructor in the VCC Culinary Arts program.
In 2021, the husband and wife duo teamed up with Matthew Clayton and rebranded the company as The Good Flour Company. Today, their products are used in more than 70 restaurants nationwide and are available for retail purchase online. The Good Flour Company’s gluten-free products are also GMO-free, allergen free and contain ingredients with the highest nutritional content available.
Drunk Log: Guilt, Hope and Redemption Underpin Dark Comedy
Cincinnati, OH, March 21, 2022 — If all goes according to plan, tonight will be Jack Current’s last. The young engineer is at the end of his emotional rope and plans to take his own life. But first, a bar crawl through his downtown Cincinnati neighborhood is in order.
Accompanying him during his final hours is a dollar store notebook. The Drunk Log. In it, he documents the evening, ruminates on his existence and remembers his 7-year-old nephew, who died exactly a year earlier. It is a loss for which Jack feels responsible — a lapse in judgement for which there is no forgiveness. Buckling under the weight of oppressive guilt, Jack plans to jump off the scenic suspension bridge spanning the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky.
Drunk Log, from Mark E. Scott, is a darkly humorous, deeply introspective exploration into one man’s attempt to find peace in the face of unrelenting pain. Told with a fast clip, the entire book covers about 8 hours and deftly avoids becoming an ominous dirge through relatable — and flawed — characters, unexpectedly funny situations, a budding romance and the wobbly balancing act of a man who must remain sober enough to write in his journal and finish what he started, but drunk enough to jump off a bridge.
Readers follow Jack as he begins the evening at his local watering hole, where a gregarious bartender named Aria, with whom he shares a mutual attraction, takes a surreptitious peek at Jack’s journal. Sensing Jack is headed to the same doom that claimed her sister, Aria decides to intervene.
Tracking him down in the middle of a winter storm, Aria finds Jack on the freezing, snowy bridge. Can they emerge from their individual cocoons of loss and suffering, save each other and rewrite their stories?
Drunk Log is the first installment in Scott’s three-part, Day in the Life series, in which the unexpected, twisted saga of Jack and Aria unfolds over a combined period of 24 hours.
Born in the small manufacturing town of Galion, Ohio, author Mark E. Scott lived in various burgs in Ohio and Michigan before joining the Navy and spending four years traveling the world aboard the USS Mount Whitney. Upon returning home to southwest Ohio, he enrolled at Miami University and completed a degree in Education, only to become a banker soon thereafter. Scott now lives happily in a condo in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. In his free time, he enjoys writing, finding new and creative ways of tricking his children into answering their phones, and anything related to travel and outdoors, of late including tumbling down snow covered mountains while dragging otherwise perfectly good skis behind him.
For more information, please visit www.markescottauthor.com, or connect with him on Instagram (markescottauthor), Facebook (@markescottauthor) or Twitter (@MarkEScott3).
Finding new ways to make small changes to your daily routine can help you live a more sustainable lifestyle. Environmental sustainability is when we live our lives in a way that is respectful to the planet and its finite natural resources. We all grew up hearing it: reduce, reuse, recycle, and now it’s time to put the mantra into effect. When you take small steps towards living more sustainability, you’ll find that your daily life doesn’t change very drastically, but your actions will be noticed.
#1 Pack Your Food To Go
You can quickly reduce waste by using reusable Tupperware and jars. Think about how many plastic water bottles, paper coffee cups, and aluminum tins you go through in a month as you dine out. Then think about how many people are waiting in the same lines as you; that’s a lot of waste.
Learn some simple sewing skills: If you can reattach a button or patch a hole, you’ll be able to keep your favorite pieces for longer. Instead of shopping for new clothes made under unethical conditions, you can keep the ones you love.
Wear your clothes more than once: The less you run your washing machine, the less water you waste. If your clothes aren’t stinky or stained, wear them again. Washing clothes will wear them out, so you may be giving your clothes some extra life by washing them less. Set up a basket for the clothes you’ve worn once or twice but aren’t necessarily dirty.
Give and take: Swap parties, thrift shops, and online trading are great mediums for giving clothing more life. During Spring cleaning, invite some friends over and trade clothes that don’t fit you or your style anymore. Just because a piece doesn’t serve you anymore doesn’t mean it can’t serve someone else.
#3 Use Eco-Friendly Cleaning Solutions
Cleaning supplies are one of the most significant contributors to pollution. From plastic bottles in our landfills to chemicals in our air and water, mass-market cleaning supplies are far from safe for our planet. Although big brands want you to believe that only the harshest chemicals will let you get a deep clean of your home, that’s simply not true. Mix some vinegar and water in a reusable glass spray bottle, and you have a solution that will make your whole kitchen sparkle. Upgrade your cleaning tool kit with glass bottles, at-home solutions, and reusable cloths.
Green Tip: Use old t-shirts instead of paper towels and dish scrubbers to get even more use out of your clothes.
#4 Mind Your Mail
Paper mail is not the planet’s friend. Not only does paper call for deforestation, but between planes and trucks, the postal service creates carbon emissions that hurt the environment. Most of the time, you can opt-in for receiving e-bills rather than paper ones. Keep your junk drawer clear by going paperless. You can also add a little sign above your mailbox that says “no junk mail.”
#5 Always Keep A Reusable Bag With You
Keeping a cute and compact tote with you is one of the easiest ways to live more sustainably. Of course, you know when you’re going grocery shopping and can prepare accordingly, but you never know when you’ll walk by a boutique or farmer’s market. Even when you’re packing light with just a purse or small backpack, a compact tote can come in handy.
#6 Clean Up Your Beauty Routine
The beauty industry has a mega carbon footprint, but just because you’re living a sustainable lifestyle doesn’t mean you can’t keep up with your self-care routine. There are small changes you can make every day that can minimize your environmental impacts:
Turn off the faucet while you brush your teeth
Use reusable cotton pads to remove your makeup
Use shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, and body wash bars instead of bottles to reduce packaging and keep plastic-free
Use reusable period products
Try buying products from only ethical brands that make their sustainable practices transparent
Use up every last drop of whatever you buy before replacing
We spend a lot of time and money on keeping up with our hygiene; we should make sure our actions are environmentally friendly when we do so.
You don’t have to go completely vegan to have an impact, but the more often you swap out animal products for plant-based ones, the better. By eating plant-based, all of us can reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced by our diets by up to 60 percent. Take your coffee with almond milk, make tofu nuggets for dinner, or swap out one of your meals for a serving of Soylent. Every meal counts.
Green Tip: If you’re willing to go plant-based, take it one step forward and lean towards soy. Our soy protein creates 25% less negative impact on the environment than other plant-based proteins.
Sustainability Is Big Picture
The Soylent team knows that in no way, is it just your responsibility to save our planet. We must all work together on creating the world we want to live in. This doesn’t mean your little actions don’t matter, but how they all add up with the choices made by other people, companies, and institutions around the world. Together we can truly create impact, one step at a time.
Tips from Ontario's doctors to help stay safe as COVID restrictions ease.
TORONTO, March 21, 2022 /CNW/ - As pandemic restrictions ease, Ontario's doctors offer five tips for helping you be and feel safe.
Get vaccinated. Keep up to date with your vaccinations and expect there will be more COVID boosters.
Consider continuing to wear a mask in indoor public spaces, especially if vulnerable people or unvaccinated children are present.
Respect those who continue to wear masks. They are protecting both themselves and others.
Stay home if you have COVID-19 symptoms. Take a rapid test if you have access to one and be sure to wear a mask and maintain physical distancing.
Recognize that science is constantly evolving and public health advice about testing and isolation changes with it. Check your local public health website for the latest information.
About the OMA
The Ontario Medical Association represents Ontario's 43,000-plus physicians, medical students and retired physicians, advocating for and supporting doctors while strengthening the leadership role of doctors in caring for patients. Our vision is to be the trusted voice in transforming Ontario's health-care system.
SOURCE Ontario Medical Association
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