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Sustainable Living & Caring for Our Most Precious Gift: 🌎 Earth

Occasionally our friends express an interest in contributing an essay to the Wellbeing Elixir. This post was written by Dr. Dana Hammer - a dear friend and colleague who's on faculty at the University of Colorado Anschultz Medical Campus. Dana is a passionate advocate for living sustainably. We are releasing her essay on EARTH DAY to remind everyone what a precious gift our planet is.

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My own journey into living sustainably began in the mid-’90s. I had grown up and worked in the Pacific Northwest of the United States but moved to a different part of the country for graduate school. As I settled into my new study and work environments, I remember feeling quite surprised when I saw soda cans in trash bins. Where I was from, not only were aluminum cans easily recycled, you could earn 5¢/can if you returned them (my dad still does this for his poker money 😉). Around the same time, a friend loaned me then-Senator Al Gore’s book “Earth in Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit”. I was deeply moved and motivated by the evidence and his arguments. I began my personal quest to “Be the Change” (Gandhi) and live sustainably by example. 

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The Power of Habits

Your life today is essentially the sum of your habits. But positive forming habits and sticking with them is never easy! It often takes 30 days, and often longer, to build a new habit. And sometimes we get knocked off track and we need to rebuild a habit that we somehow lost. In the best-selling book Atomic Habits by James Clear ...  READ MORE >>> (You'll need to sign-in to read this essay)

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