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204: We are overviewing the top climate solutions across four major sectors demanding major overhaul to heavily decarbonize: Transportation, the Built Environment, Food/Agriculture, and Electricity. As we are awaiting climate commitments from the currently-underway COP27, let's understand all the interwoven opportunities to meet our goals of keeping warming below 2C.

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203: Walkability has some clear climate benefits: lower carbon footprints, resource sharing, and decreased reliance on cars for transportation. We're exploring all those, and also discussing some major social sustainability aspects to walkable cities, yielding healthier, happier communities. Today's episode is a deep dive through research on both the climate and community values around mixed-use developments.

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202: Lindsay McCormick is the Founder + CEO of Bite Toothpaste Bits, a brand dedicated to a plastic-free personal care routine through novel products, like their flagship, viral toothpaste tablets. Lindsay and I discuss all things sustainable entrepreneurship: early challenges, deep research, finding partners that align with your mission... everything from her previous career as a producer on House Hunters to pitching Shark Tank to capitalizing on viral videos across social channels. Lindsay is transparent and reflective - a fabulous teacher and mentor for anyone interested in disrupting an industry.

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201: We're learning from Yesh Pavlik Slenk, the Network Senior Manager of Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps program and host of Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers. Yesh is literally an expert at helping folks get paid to save the planet - and she's sharing thoughtful insight and tangible tips, whether you're just starting your career journey, pivoting into a more climate-conscious role, or greening your current workplace. Yesh and I discuss skills and experiences we understand as valuable in the actively-changing sustainability career space. We close out on a personal note, where Yesh shares her experiences coping with climate guilt as a mother.

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200: We're joined by the coolest girls rebranding politics - Sammy Kanter and Maddie Medved, cohosts of The Girl and The Gov, The Podcast. Sammy and Maddie educate us on lesser-known political basics as we prep for Midterm Elections, coming up November 8th. We learn how to "review" candidates, what ballot initiatives are, and how to motivate our friends. Plus, we learn all about two major pieces of climate legislation (NY and CA) and two offices that have major climate pull we may not have thought much about (AZ and TX).

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199: Annie Spence is a freelance creative and marketing consultant in fashion blogging, who also blogs and offers personal styling services. She's also one of my favorite people - an IRL friend turned internet bestie. Annie gives immediate, actionable tips for whatever stage you're in crafting the perfect-for-you closet: purging, finding your "uniform", deciding where to invest vs save, and all the little tricks for shopping secondhand both online and locally. We also share stories of our favorite thrifted finds and how we can involve friends in our sustainable fashion journeys.

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198: From costumes to chocolate... Halloween is an easy time to trip up on our conscious consumerism. We're discussing some quick tips to keep your waste and impulse purchases this time of year, and also exploring some heavier ethical issues surrounding seasonal consumerism. We discuss costumes, decor, chocolate's dark history of child slavery, palm oil ... a quickie episode jam-packed for whatever your sustainable spooky season looks like.

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197: With more extreme weather events, we're hearing more and more about climate refugees: communities forced to flee due to environmental factors. We are having a conversation about why people migrate, whether from gradual or sudden climate stressors, and how climate change is accelerating and exacerbating humanitarian crises globally.

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196: Architect and sustainable design advocate Amanda Gunawan of OWIU Designs joins us to discuss spaces: how we live, the spaces we create, and how conscious consumption can be brought into your build environment. Amanda and I discuss thoughtful design, sustainable architecture and development, and some of our favorite 'trends' in mindful living spaces.

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195: One of the most common pitfalls when we're working to become more conscious consumers is figuring out if the clothing we're buying is fast fashion. I'm breaking down five tried-and-true guidelines for us as we examine brands and think more deeply about our purchases. We're also walking through examples of greenwashing campaigns (cough cough, H&M Conscious) and discussing the juicy news of Kourtney Kardashian's appointment as Sustainability Ambassador for Boohoo (lol).

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Join us in celebrating 200 episodes of ECO CHIC!! Record 1-2 minutes of yourself sharing your favorite, creative sustainability tip - something you were excited to learn during your journey to live more eco-consciously, and something you'd like to share with the community. Topics may include but are absolutely not limited to: fashion, food, recreation/hobbies, family, events, school, savings.... just about anything can be tied back to our goals of more sustainable lifestyles.

You can record a voice memo on your phone or computer (I think it is quite easy to record yourself on Zoom) and email me the MP3 at [email protected]. Please share your name if you're comfortable! And please write something descriptive in the subject line, like "200th episode" or "200th voice memo." Thanks in advance!!! I cannot wait to hear these.

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