This month on EnvironMental we are focused on packaging!

Plus the best, most sustainable option (reducing consumption and/or reusing any "single use" plastics) brings about a modicum of shame that we need to move past as a society.

In this episode we're wrapping up what we've learned this month, along with what you can do as a brand to elevate recycling within your business.

Here are the resources we mentioned in this episdode:

We had an incredible chat with Marissa Segundo, a Communications Consultant at Resource Recycling Systems (RRS)!

As a bilingual communicator, Marissa is proud to be a proactive bridge-builder to the Hispanic community. She has provided clients in the public and private sectors, as well as product stewardship initiatives with innovative communications plans centered on sustainability, waste reduction, and recycling!

 In this podcast, Marissa gives us some really insightful background into how recycling centers work, the challenges they face, and the incredible work they do despite those challenges!

We're back with our first Book Review for EnvironMental - we've decided as part of our monthly deep dives into different aspects of sustainability that we would read something focused on that topic. This month's topic: Recycling. We read Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine by Beth Porter.

Some good ones:

It's a great encouragement for folks who may not regularly choose to recycle, but want to understand more about the impact of their decisions!

For the first full month of the EnvironMental Podcast, we're talking about Recycling!

This week on EnvironMental podcast, we talked about our feelings around last week's Changemaker Chat with Julia Kaleta and the new term we learned "Green Wishing."

We talked a lot about shifting socially conscious initiatives out of the "performative" space with your branding - AKA do the work to make sure that your sustainability and inclusivity isn't bullshit.

Also a PSA: Sustainability isn't a competition.

We need the people that are diving deep into specific issues and the people that are working to understand the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability to work together.

Do your best to remove your ego, and support each other wherever our sustainable journeys take us.

Also, we work with sustainable businesses and one of our goals is to help shift the responsibility onto bigger areas of the industrial processes - because this is a crisis that we all need to work on together! 

To do that, we've got to be ready to do the work, make some massive changes, and sacrifice some of our conveniences, together. 

In this first of our Changemaker chats, we're talking with Julia Kaleta!

Julia's latest project is The Atlas of Sustainable Colours, you can follow along with her on Instagram @atlasofsustainable or on her website https://aosc.online

We've officially rebranded Offbrand Podcast - welcome to Episode One of EnvironMental! One of our biggest passions is sustainability and the human impact on the environment so we decided to shift our podcast to be able to learn more about this super important issue and share it with you! We're going to have guests, read books, and talk about how to grow brands more sustainably over time.

This is our last Book Review as Off Brand Podcast - and it's about Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz!

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We are branding Off-Brand!! STAY TUNED! We have been podcasting for almost a year and we really love it, but we want to align our weekly non-marketing chats with our passion: Sustainability. In this episode, we talk about why we're making the change and we announce the new name of our Podcast!

Check out our newest venture in the works here: http://livingbranddirectory.com/