happy eco friendly vibes: how to be more sustainable
The Girly Girl Podcast
Carmen Applegate
4.8 • 998 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Carmen discusses everything sustainability this week!! She shares her favorite swaps, healthy habits, and what you can do to be more eco friendly. Carmen also explaining greenwashing and how being organic/clean has become "trendy". Lastly, she shares what she's learned throughout her journey to becoming more sustainable and some important lessons she wishes she knew earlier!
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Special mentions:
⭐️ Low wast swaps for teens blog post: https://caraacarmen.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/12-zero-low-waste-swaps-for-students/
⭐️ How to have a sustainable period blog post: https://caraacarmen.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/how-to-have-a-sustainable-period-as-a-teen/
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Transcript
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| 0:26.2 | Hey girlies it's it's Carmen I hope you're having an amazing day. Today we're talking all about sustainability which I'm super excited about and it's something I'm really passionate about and yeah, so let's just get into it and also happy late Valentine's Day. I know I'm recording this earlier in the week. It's actually a Tuesday because I'm going out of town later, but happy Valentine's Day. |
| 0:35.0 | I hope you guys had a great day, |
| 0:37.6 | vibing with yourself with your gal pal, |
| 0:40.2 | boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever. |
| 0:44.0 | And yeah, let's just do the best and worst of the week first |
| 0:47.0 | because that's what we always do. |
| 0:50.0 | So for the best of the week, it's just that this week I have a winter break which has been really nice |
| 0:55.5 | Just because I needed a break I feel like I've been overworking myself with school |
| 1:01.3 | and I just took the ACT |
| 1:03.8 | as I talked about in my last episode which I mean like it was fine it was okay it wasn't |
| 1:08.5 | that bad but also it wasn't like great the math was really hard just because I most of it on the |
| 1:15.1 | a c. T is geometry and I haven't like done geometry since eighth grade so I really don't remember any of it and I have to like relearn all that which just kind of sucks but I mean it's okay other than that this week has been pretty good |
| 1:32.4 | I actually started a new book. I've been reading one for a book club which I don't think I was supposed to start but like I did and I'm like halfway through and then I just stopped myself because I was |
| 1:43.0 | saying I don't want to get too far ahead but then I started this other book |
| 1:46.3 | if you are into reading you've most definitely heard of it it's called from |
| 1:51.8 | blood and ash everyone says it's spicy. I haven't |
| 1:55.8 | gotten to any spicy part so I'm like kind of low-key confused and like I yesterday I literally read 200 pages because I was trying to get to like you know like the spicy stuff and I was like dude this book is 600 pages if we're 200 pages in like come, come on, like, hmm. |
| 2:14.2 | But you know, it's like actually good. |
| 2:16.1 | I was just, I feel like from Tik-Tok, I just get so hyped up |
| 2:20.7 | about a book and then it's just like fine. |
| 2:22.8 | Like I read Six of Crows and everyone was like, |
| 2:25.3 | oh my God, this book was so good. |
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