Back to School with the Planet in Mind

eco tip Back to School with the Planet in Mind

This school season, families have an opportunity to make Earth-friendly decisions as they prepare their children for a successful educational experience. These tips balance sustainability against kids’ desires for the coolest, newest gadgets and garments.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Before going to the store to buy new school supplies, search the house for items that can be reused or repurposed, such as half-spent notebooks or last year’s pens and pencils. A little elbow grease and TLC can refurbish old lunchboxes and backpacks—also affording an opportunity to teach kids how to repair and extend the life of items.

Buy Secondhand Clothes

Kids that have outgrown last year’s threads and are clamoring for a whole new wardrobe can be cheerfully introduced to the burgeoning used clothing market, which is both eco-responsible and budget-friendly. Resist the temptation to purchase cheap “fast fashion” that too quickly ends up in landfills and pollutes the environment by using toxic dyes, fossil-fuel-derived textiles and other bad chemicals. Donate old clothes instead of throwing them away.

Buy Eco-Friendly School Supplies

Opt for durable items that are made with recycled or sustainable materials and use minimal packaging. Avoid items made of plastic. Buy used textbooks whenever possible.

Walk or Bike to School

If the family lives reasonably close to school, encourage kids to walk or bike. For young children that require supervision, enlist one or more adults to lead a convoy of walking or biking kids. School buses and carpooling are the next best eco-friendly choices. When transporting kids by car, make sure to turn the engine off while waiting in the pick-up or drop-off line. Engine idling is a significant air polluter.

Pack a Waste-Free, Non-Toxic Lunch

Avoid anything plastic, including single-use water bottles and Ziploc bags. Reusable, stainless steel, food and drink containers, as well as lightweight, reusable bamboo utensils, are ideal. Homemade, whole and bulk foods are healthier and much more Earth-friendly compared to prepackaged snacks that are usually wrapped in plastic and jampacked with sugar and other unhealthy ingredients.

Model Environmental Stewardship

Show kids that the family embraces an eco-friendly lifestyle. Kids will watch and learn as their parents regularly bring reusable shopping bags to the store, frequent local small businesses, participate in community cleanup efforts and continually search for innovative ways to safeguard the planet.

The Journey to Wellness Begins Here

CEO Gelcys Basulto is a health and wellness coach and owner of A Journey to Wellness, a boutique selling organic body and bath products made with the highest-quality ingredients, natural wellness products and healing crystals. She holds a certificate in health and wellness coaching and life coaching.

Basulto says, “Health and wellness has been a passion and a lifestyle for over 20 years. I knew at the age of 16 after my mom was diagnosed with MS that I wanted to help people so they can live a healthy active life. After my mother passed away, God gave me a vision, and here I am.”

A Journey to Wellness offers health and wellness coaching, life coaching and a storefront with amazing organic products. “My business is different because everything is hand-picked. I travel to farmers markets across the U.S. searching for the best,” she shares. “I have very strict guidelines. All of the products in the boutique are organic, non-toxic and made with the highest quality of ingredients.” Her goal is to franchise so other health and wellness coaches can have their own storefront and offer their services.

“We do all of the homework when it comes to finding the best products, which can take time out of your busy schedule to do,” says the entrepreneur. “My biggest accomplishment is that every client and customer that comes in leaves with more knowledge and understanding of health and wellness and how the products you choose to put on your body or bring into your home can either be healthy or toxic. My biggest challenge is getting people to try new things and get out of their old habits which aren’t healthy.”

Basulto thinks it is important to support small businesses and is doing that by looking for brands and bringing their products to the store. She states, “Our health food stores are letting us down by allowing anything to be sold in their stores, so people think that because the products are in a store like Whole Foods that the products are safe, but they still contain fillers and other chemicals.”

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A Focus on Traditional Yoga

Union Studio Yoga offers yoga and meditation classes to help clients live a more fulfilling life and increase mobility, range of motion and peace of mind. Owner and founder Kimberly Taurins, 500 E-RYT, is a Daoist priest and reiki master.

She says. “I officially opened the doors of Four Dragons Yoga in March of 2016 in a medical professional building on 20th Street, and I had no idea anyone would show up. I did know that I wanted to create a studio built on authenticity, sincerity, integrity and inclusion, so everyday that’s what I focused on. After four years we actually out grew our space. We opened Union Studio believes in the power of a consistent practice and helps students create positive, healthy lifestyles by providing a variety of yoga plus meditation classes with some of the best instructors in the city. “We’ve seen all types of people benefit from mindful movement and observing the patterns and nuances of the mind,” says Taurins. “We believe in the power of community, or as the yogis would say, sangha, and look forward to practicing with you.”

There are 17 teachers/staff from all walks of life. Taurins advises, “I am humbled and grateful for their dedication to their own practice and their students. They have supported and bolstered me every step of the way. I hope that I can offer them the same for as long as possible.”

As far as her competition, she says, “There are lots of fantastic studios out there. I believe we focus more on the traditional, enduring aspects of yoga, not just the athletics. We are committed to self-discovery (svadhyaya) and providing a judgement-free environment for that to happen. No one can do the work for you, but I promise we will walk with you.”

The studio has added a myofascial release/Roll Out/Mobility lab to the class schedule that complements yoga by increasing range of motion, joint function and in general helping clients to feel better. Taurins says, “We don’t have to be in pain as we age.”

Upcoming events include a free Yoga on the Lawn class every Saturday at 8:30 a.m.; a Breathing to Reduce Anxiety series on Mondays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., August 29 through September 26; Roll Model Method Training (myofascial release) on September 24 and 25; and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training starting October 4; as well as Yin Yoga Teacher Training from September 16 through 18 and October 14 through 16.

Union Studio Yoga is located at 600 N. Shepherd Dr., Ste. 449, in Houston. For more information, call 800-215-3190 or visit UnionStudio.yoga.

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