Age of Plastic

Today we hear from Jon Roesser General Manager at Weavers Way Co-Op in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania - a member-owned cooperative grocery. Find out what a food co-op is, what Weavers Way is aiming to do, the tiny percent of food we have to grow, to make a big difference, and what do keep in mind when food shopping to lessen our waste, Organic Fair Trade Bananas and blueberries in winter, climate change and farming!

Weavers Way 

https://weaversway.coop/

Food Co-Ops UK

https://www.sustainweb.org/foodcoops/finder/

Food Co-Ops US

https://coop.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_cooperatives_in_the_United_States

Food Co-Ops Australia 

https://www.localharvest.org.au/learn/food-co-ops-an-introduction/

Sally Nex - Low Carbon Gardening 

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Good Climate News
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/25/young-activists-sue-boris-johnson-over-failure-to-tackle-climate-crisis

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Do you have a bin? Today’s guests don’t! Meet the Zero Waste family from San Diego called the Syrens, James, Fredrika and their 3 kids Bella, Noah and Liam.

They worked on an NBC show in October 2021, from Ava DuVernay (behind movies Selma and a Wrinkle In Time) titled Home Sweet Home. 
Find out how they do it, what Fredrika thinks of as green money, raising kids who love veg and James GREAT tip for noticing your waste! 

BOOK: Zero Waste for Families: A Practical Guide

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56048053-zero-waste-for-families

Follow the Syrens

https://www.instagram.com/zero.waste.family/

Home Sweet Home Show

https://www.nbc.com/home-sweet-home

Colin Beavan No Impact Man

https://colinbeavan.com/search-no-impact/

John Muir 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Muir

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What if nothing in your life was single use? If we valued things we own and not send them abroad to be incinerated or pollute other countries?

Last Object co founder and co-designer Isabel Aagaard joins me from Copenhagen to talk about ending our throw away culture.

https://lastobject.com/

Good News
https://news.yahoo.com/pulled-63-000-pounds-trash-100018506.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWNvc2lhLm9yZy8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAImJWCGfsECNdTJ6En5YglY43Rc8rSCvAMgpQ44-fmaSOY7lvJI81E4DH_Uk6LV8PlslCJC2FQiXpXKeYSptXWArlFgdB_3YH7PEzgUaqpaXSLlUMzsmexjjKsPzks0PhGCJrzxei3ndi99MT6L3eDi5-4oPLjlyf5a54kD15CmE

For more on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Today's guest is Pierre Paslier, from start up NOTPLA who with co-founder Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez developed this material, Ooho - at Imperial College London. It's an edible flexible plastic replacement which biodegrades and disappears without harm to the environment in a few weeks.

Find out the reasons behind those names NotPLA & Ooho - Piere’s hopes for the p coming COP26, where mushrooms, shrimp shell and coffee bean waste feature in the future of plastic packaging plus some of his experience behind the scenes at plastic producer L’Oreal.
https://www.notpla.com/

Try an Ooho at London's Design Museum
https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/waste-age-what-can-design-do#

We Don’t Have Time
https://www.wedonthavetime.org/event/cop26

Aircarbon Ep
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Old PPE to New PPE ep
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Today’s guest, senior UNEP expert Jacqueline McGlade, spoke to me from Kenya, all about the new UN Plastic Pollution Report published recently.  Jacqueline McGlade is a Marine Biologist, Environmental Science Professor, she’s worked for the European Environment Agency and now for the UN Environmental Programme. 

See the full UN Environmental Programme below;

https://www.unep.org/resources/pollution-solution-global-assessment-marine-litter-and-plastic-pollution

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Climate Change and Resilience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCaNOU1dS4

Climate and Gender Equality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfHEdWyUaVs

GOOD NEWS STORY

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/plant-based-jet-fuel-could-reduce-emissions-by-68/

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Today’s guest is CEO of EarthKind Energy Consulting & host of the Awesome EarthKind Podcast, which discusses how the forces of nature Earth, Air, Water and the Sun can provide all the energy we need as a planet 1000% over!

Today find out from Ron Kamen, how energy efficient are we? Whats the best flavour of clean energy? Hydro, Solar, Thermal, Tidal or Wind? Whats behind our energy issues at the moment? Carbon capture technology? And what to look for when you pick a clean energy provider, plus the CODEREDCLIMATE campaign!

More on Ron Kamen

https://earthkindenergy.com/

Ron’s Podcast

https://awesomeearthkind.com/podcasts/

The Bay of Fundi in Canada

https://bayoffundytourism.com/worlds-highest-tides/

Reverb 

https://reverb.org/

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This episode I'm talking composting and compostable biodegradable materials with Jeremy Lang, founder and VP of Sustainability at Pela. We also talk about the brand new countertop composter and cleaning up oil spills, why nature has it figured out  and cutting out the middle man when it comes to garbage!

“Theres no waste in nature, and no other species wastes like humans”

“To really truly leave the world a better place for future generations, it can’t just be us it has to be every company”

https://pela.earth/

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What if everything that looked like plastic wasn’t? What if it was something better? Better in that it was a truly biodegradable material, and a product that wasn’t just carbon neutral but carbon negative? In that it takes harmful greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in its creation?

California-based Newlight Technologies have spent more than a decade developing a revolutionary material called AirCarbon. It uses greenhouse gas as feedstock to create a meltable, carbon-negative material that can be used as a replacement for plastic, leather, fibers, and more. AirCarbon is a natural material and contains no synthetic plastics, PLA or synthetic glues, requires no food crops for production and is home compostable, soil degradable and ocean-friendly, degrading naturally if it ends up in the environment. 

Today I am really excited to be talking to Mark Herrema, Co Founder and CEO of Newlight Technologies.
https://www.newlight.com/

Eco Life Hack - flight free holidays
https://www.byway.travel/

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According to Reboxed, with 10 billion phones now in existence we’ve got more phones than humans on the planet! Reboxed want to fight e-waste by making it easier and cheaper to buy or sell certified refurbished devices with them than buy new. 

Today Phil Kemish the Co founder & CEO of Reboxed discusses the damage to our planet of e-waste, the right to repair movement and THAT expose on Amazon waste… plus Reboxed big plans to fight e- waste with an app!

https://reboxed.co/

Reboxed Future Makers Series

https://reboxed.co/blogs/outsidethebox/future-maker-jon-devo

Eco Life Hack - a planet friendly card 

https://www.helpful.world/

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Today let’s talk GOLD.. and other precious metals. 

Catch Rhys Jones is the founder and creative director of jewellery brand Catch Rhys, ‘solid jewellery that doesn’t cost the earth.’ The brand is described as honestly priced, plus it’s plastic free with recycled paper and reusable packaging and use 85% recycled metals, hoping to be 100%.

Find out why Catch prefers to call the brand RESPONSIBLE over SUSTAINABLE, why recycled materials aren’t on everyones radar, the weird spaces were we will find gold in future, tips on buying sustainable jewellery and greenwashing in the industry! 

Catch Rhys 

https://www.catchrhys.co.uk/

Maggie Marilyn 

https://maggiemarilyn.com/

ECO LIFE HACK 

https://findacomposter.com/

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