In this episode, Aspen Murray and Marjorie Alexander cover:

• The reality of working conditions at some of the sweatshops that make our clothing
• Companies who are creating ethically and sustainably produced clothing
• How to spot sustainable clothing while shopping at traditional stores

About our guest:

Aspen Murray is a young activist who is dedicating her life to the pursuit of making ethical + sustainable fashion the norm. She firmly believes that we all have the power to vote with our dollars, but that we need to reform how we look at conscious consumerism: it shouldn't be difficult, it shouldn't be inaccessible to certain people, and it's okay if we mess up − because the onus should never fall entirely on the consumer

Connect with Aspen Murray and Ethigirl Online:

• Ethigirl Blog: Ethigirl.com
• Some of my favorite pieces:
  • Sustainable Fashion Swaps For Summer 2019 Trends 
  • Personal Pieces: Dealing With Burnout
  • Responsible Reduction: How To Get Rid Of Old Clothes
• Ethigirl on Social Media:
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethigirlblog/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ethigirl/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethigirlblog
  • Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/ethigirl_/

Suggested Resources from Aspen:

Online:

• Consignment shops
  • Depop
  • Thredup
  • Patagonia
  • ModCloth
  • Matatraders.com
  • Everlane
• The True Cost documentary
• Fashion Revolution
• Best Dressed on Youtube (hilarious by the way!)

Books:

• Anything by Yvonne Chenard, Founder of Patagonia
• Wear No Evil by Greta Eagan

In this episode, Wendy Strgar and Marjorie Alexander cover:

• Bioplastic as sustainable packaging - what is it, where do you get it and why more companies aren't using it
• How petroleum in personal hygiene products can impact the body
• Staying emotionally connected with your partner
• Active grieving after a loss

Connect with Wendy Strgar and Good Clean Love Online:

• Good Clean Love website: GoodCleanLove.com
• The scientific (and independent) research behind the Good Clean Love products: https://goodcleanlove.com/pages/science
• Good Clean Love on Social Media:
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodcleanlove/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makeloveorganic/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodcleanlove

Suggested Resources from Wendy:

Suggested online resource:

• Insight Time

• Calm App

Books:

• The Book and Nature, Man and Woman by Allan Watts
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

About our guest:

Wendy Strgar is an award-winning entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Good Clean Love. Wendy started Good Clean Love in 2003 after hearing from many women about, and experiencing for herself, the painful side effects of using petrochemical-based hygiene and intimacy products. Under Wendy’s leadership, Good Clean Love is a champion of sustainable business practices. In 2018, the company launched a carbon offset initiative; its flagship product, Almost Naked personal lubricant, became the first-ever Carbon Neutral intimacy product in the world. Good Clean Love is also one of the only personal care product brands whose products are packaged using bioplastic, a material made from recyclable sugar cane.

Dirty Gourmet is a women-owned outdoor company dedicated to empowering outdoorists to make food a part of their soul-nourishing outdoor experience. The founders of Dirty Gourmet, Mai-Yan Kwan, Emily Nielson, and Aimee Trudeau together after a bike tour across Canada and years of camp life took it upon themselves to rethink the idea of food in the outdoors. Whether you're a car camper getting started with a picky family to feed, or a lightweight backpacker looking for inspiration to get you to your destination, they have plenty of tips and recipes for you on our website and in their cookbook, Dirty Gourmet: Food for your Outdoor Adventures.

In this episode we cover:

• How splitting up your trip types into 3 categories is important to enjoying cooking and eating awesome food in the great outdoors
• Two must-follow rules for enjoying cooking during your outdoor adventures
• A super easy homemade granola recipe!

Emily Nielson and Dirty Gourmet Online:

• Dirty Gourmet website: DirtyGourmet.com
• My favorite recipes on the blog:
  • Raspberry Almond Cacao Oatmeal
  • Fire Roasted Indian Eggplant
  • Goat Milk Gouda Veggie Sandwich
• Dirty Gourmet on Social Media:
  • Instagram: https://instagram.com/dirtygourmet/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dirtygourmet
  • Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dirtygourmet/
• Dirty Gourmet: Food for your Outdoor Adventures
  

Suggested Resources from Emily:

Suggested online resource:

• Mother Earth News

Books:

• Any work by biologist and naturalist EO Wilson
• The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

5 million bars of soap are thrown away EACH DAY! And it's not biodegradable! In this episode we tackle how soap can be recycled in a responsible way and how Project EcoSoap is using this model to create jobs and save lives in developing nations.

Jann Vendetti is the Twila Bratcher Chair in Malacological Research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Malacology is the study of mollusks (snails, clams, octopus), and Jann's focus is snails. She was a postdoctoral researcher at California State University, Los Angeles and received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology. She is interested in urban biodiversity of snail and slug species, both introduced and native.

In this episode we cover:

• What are the different types of terrestrial and marine mollusks?
• How is climate change impacting various mollusk populations?
• How do mollusks compare to and differ from more familiar taxa such as mammals?
• Jann's favorite mollusk - the purple sea snail!

Jann Vendetti & The Natural History Museum of LA Online:

• Jann Vendetti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jann-vendetti-455b4412/
• City Nature Challenge 2019 - April 26, 27 & 28: http://citynaturechallenge.org/
• Natural History Museum of LA (NHMLA): https://nhm.org
• Snails and slugs Living in Metropolitan Environments (SLIME) Project: https://nhm.org/site/activities-programs/citizen-science/slime
• iNaturalist (app used in the City Nature Challenge):
  • iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/inaturalist/id421397028?mt=8
  • Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inaturalist.android&hl=en_US
  • Website: https://www.inaturalist.org/

Suggested Resources from Jann:

• Who do you look up to?

  • Dr. Eugenie Clark, the “Shark Lady”: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/eugenie-clark-shark-lady

  • Sylvia Earle - Mission Blue Foundation: https://mission-blue.org/

    • Mission Blue, the documentary on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/70308278

• Suggested online resource:

  • ScienceDaily.com

Books:

• Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
• Stephen Jay Gould:
  • The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive: http://www.stephenjaygould.org/
  • Stephen Jay Gould's books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2X4C2pc
• Natalie Angier:
  • Natalie Angier's books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Xh79y9

 

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Born in Moldova, Izolda Trakhtenberg learned how to communicate in multiple languages through a year-long immigration process. Today, Izolda facilitates workshops that inspire people to tap into and master their leadership, creativity, and communication skills. She worked as an educator for the National Geographic Society. Later, she traveled the world as a NASA environmental education trainer. Additionally, she is the author of five books, including Speak From Within: Engage, Inspire and Motivate Any Audience. She is also the host of the Tell Your Story Better and The Creative Kind podcasts. Izolda, her husband, and their two cats live in Maryland.

In this episode we cover:

• Is there a difference between educating children and adults?
• Why is NASA interested in studying Earth?
• The most effective way to educate those around you about earth-friendly habits
• A great free resource for teachers and everyday people that want to study Earth's ecology and atmosphere
  

Izolda Trakhtenberg Online:

• IzoldaT.com
• The Creative Kind, a daily Podcast
• Tell Your Story Better, a weekly podcast
• Izolda's book, Speak From Within
• Social Media
  • Instagram: @IzoldaT
    
  • Twitter: @IzoldaT
    
  • LinkedIn: IzoldaT
    
  • Facebook: @IzoldaTSpeaker
• Book Izolda for a presentation!
  

Suggestions & Resource from Izolda:

• Globe.gov - A Worldwide Science and Education Program
• Who does Izolda look up to in the field of environmental activism?
  • Retired NASA Soil Scientist Alyssa Levine
  • Anthropologist and primate activist Jane Goodall
  • Conservation scientist and CEO of Conservation.org M. Sanjayan
• International Fund for Animal Welfare
• NASA image library (now public domain)
  

Books:

• Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
• Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Blue Gold by Maude Barlow

 

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Rob Greenfield is a world-renowned adventurer and activist and is embarking on his next big project, Food Freedom. Through Rob's extreme projects from cycling across the USA on a bamboo bicycle for sustainability (three times), to dumpster diving in thousands of grocery store dumpsters to raise awareness about food waste and hunger, to wearing 30 days worth of trash to create a visual of how much trash just one American creates, he has inspired countless people to positively change. Rob has been featured on thousands of media outlets around the world, hosted shows on Discovery Channel and has given two TEDx talks. You can see his media page here.

In this episode we cover:

• Rob's journey from nature-loving kid, to materialistic teen, to environmental changemaker
• Some of Rob's favorite adventures and experiments
• How his choice to give up his computer caused him to question his impact in the world
• Rob's best advice for those just getting started in eco-conscious living

Rob Greenfield Online:

• RobGreenfield.tv
• Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Rob's current project Food Freedom
• The Trash Me experiment where Rob wore all the trash he produced for 30 days
• Some of my favorite blog articles by Rob
  • What is My Heart’s Deepest Desire?
  • How to Create an Environmental Activism Campaign
  • One of Rob's bamboo bike tours: Goodfluence Tour

Suggestions & Green Resource from Rob:

• Take 12 hours off from devices each day if you can and go tech-free for 1 full day each week.
• Learn about Winona LaDuke and other inspiring people at RobGreenfield.tv/people
• Learn about educational and moving films at RobGreenfield.tv/films
• Check out the project, film and books from the Story of Stuff

Books:

• Anything by Gandhi and MLK (access Gandhi's writing free at Gandhi Serve Foundation)
• The Moneyless Man and other books by Mark Boyle

Joel Solomon is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. As a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. Joel is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Institute”, and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors.

In this episode we cover:

• How Joel's experiences with cancer, working with Jimmy Carter and becoming the caretaker of an orca research lab led him to have a deep appreciation for nature
• What venture capital is and why is it important to our economy
• How Renewal Funds and other companies are giving back to the environment in a big way
• The connection between love and money

Joel Solomon Online:

• JoelSoloman.com
• Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Joel is the co-author of the new book The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism

Suggestions from Joel:

"Political engagement," spend more time reading "sources of political thinking, interviews, and analysis that meet enough of our values and to stay informed and to care,"

"Read more books from people and voices who have been left out of the equation"

 

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Kate Williams is CEO of 1% for the Planet, a global movement inspiring businesses and individuals to support environmental nonprofit solutions, through annual membership and everyday actions. Kate stepped into her role at 1% for the Planet in May 2015 bringing a strong track record as a leader, including roles as Board Chair of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), as Executive Director of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, as founder and owner of a farm business enterprise, and as an elected political leader in her community. Kate earned a BA at Princeton University where she majored in history, and an MS at the MIT Sloan School of Management where she focused on organizational systems. Kate is a master’s distance runner, kitchen gardener, and always wants more time to read and write. Kate lives in Vermont with her husband and two children.

In this episode we cover:

• How companies that are not yet walking the walk can still help the environmental movement
• How perfection can be the enemy of progress to any worth-while cause
• Some of the benefits and challenges of environmental philanthropy
• How 1%FTP makes it easy for anyone (not just companies and non-profits) to give back and help the planet

1% for the Planet Online:

• 1% for the Planet - A global network of businesses, nonprofits and individuals working together for a healthy planet. More than $175 Million dollars given back to the environment.
• 1%FTP on Social Media: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Kate Williams on Social Media: LinkedIn
• Learn more: Join the Mailing List | Read the 1%FTP mission | Join the cause!

 

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