Greening Up My Act: A Sustainable Living Podcast

We get it: It's easy to want to hide in your hidey hole right now. But sadly, we don't got time for that. Instead, it's time to cobble together as many safe, sustainable local communities as we can manage. If you're pissed or scared (or both) and want to make an impact on local politics, join Tiff and Kat to get your hopes back up in these crazy f*cking times.

Sources

• https://www.americanprogress.org/article/fighting-climate-change-from-capitol-hill-to-city-hall/ 
• https://www.sheshouldrun.org/resources/3-ways-to-get-involved-in-local-government/
• https://www.lcv.org/programs/climate-action-program/ 

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Does voting really matter to U.S. policy? A lot of people in our country feel like voting is pointless. Join Tiff & Kat in exploring if that's really true.

Sources:

• U.S. News & World Report: How Many People Didn’t Vote in the 2024 Election? https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-15/how-many-people-didnt-vote-in-the-2024-election
• The Guardian: Why Eligible Voters Did Not Vote https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/why-eligible-voters-did-not-vote
• Princeton Quarterly Journal of Economics: Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? https://www.princeton.edu/~davidlee/wp/voterspolicies.pdf
• NonprofitVOTE: The Benefits of Voting https://www.nonprofitvote.org/resource/benefits-voting/
• Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research: State elections, policy choices, and accountability: https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/state-elections-policy-choices-and-accountability

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Struggling with eco-anxiety, like any person with eyes? Hosts Tiff and Kat explore how to stay hopeful and motivated while tackling unprecedented environmental challenges, offering practical tips to turn worry into action. Join them as they share stories, insights, and strategies to cultivate resilience and make a positive impact in a world that needs it in your favorite sustainability podcast.

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Sources

• NOAA climate.gov: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2024-active-year-us-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters
• Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua:  https://amzn.to/4hmQWAA

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If you want your money to impact ecological matters, where should you put it? 

Billionaires aren't the only people who can make the world change with their money.

Get tips on how to find the right charitable organization to donate your money to where they'll actually do something with it, and get a few suggestions to start you off. 

Sources

1. National Philanthropic Trust - Charitable Giving Statistics - https://www.nptrust.org/philanthropic-resources/charitable-giving-statistics/
2. Earth Easy - 10 high-impact environmental charities with integrity - https://learn.eartheasy.com/articles/where-to-donate-10-high-impact-environmental-charities-with-integrity/
3. Indigenous Environmental Network - https://www.ienearth.org/

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Welcome to season 6 -- we're talking activism for non-activists! To kick things off, Tiff looks into sustainable communities. What are they? Are they real? Do Bigfoot and the Jersey Devil hang out there, or human folk? Turns out they are real, but complicated. Even if these communities can be a little... out there... they're ripe with inspiration to make your own neighborhood more sustainable one step at a time.

Sources

• Institute for Sustainable Communities: https://sustain.org/about/what-is-a-sustainable-community/
• Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: https://www.dancingrabbit.org/

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Ready or not, the holidays are upon us. Get tips on how to make it through this season without going into debt (emotional or economic) in our annual anti-Black Friday gift guide.

We wish you a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season full of light, warmth, and love.

Season 6 starts early January 2025!

Sources:

• CNBC - What Not to Buy This Year- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/26/black-friday-and-cyber-monday-are-here-what-not-to-buy-this-year.html
• ABC - Black Friday's History - https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/black-fridays-history-tells-us-holiday-shopping-2024-116228668 
• Charles Schwab - Three Ways to Avoid Doom Spending - https://www.aboutschwab.com/mss/story/three-ways-to-avoid-doom-spending
• The Money Love Podcast - https://overcomingoverspending.com/podcast

Local artists and small business gift ideas:

• Dan Wolff's Side Questers comic book - https://ko-fi.com/s/e708ed6327
• Clohnart by John Lee - https://www.clohnart.com/
• Pet Portraits by Caitlin - https://www.petportraitsbycaitlin.com/
• Kat's fiction - https://katcox.com/portfolio/fiction
• Akaimi the Artist - https://www.akaimi.art/
• Buy a gift subscription to our Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GreeningUpMyAct/gift

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Your favorite green living podcast is back with a preview of our sixth (!!!) season.

It's been a rough couple of months for a number of reasons (check out our Patreon for a full run-through) but we are coming back in January 2025 with Season 6: Political Action! 

We'll be talking about: 

• how voting affects green policies
•  how to lobby your U.S. government from the city to the state to the feds
• what green plans the U.S. government has in place (or what they'll be tearing down)
• how to take action against corporations 
• green living lifestyle changes you can make that actually matter

and more!

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Did you know there are over 400,000 eco-friendly hotels around the world? Join Tiff and Kat in exploring how to identify these hidden gems in the wild and what they're doing to combat overtourism.

We're going through a lot right now so we need to take a break until early 2025!

Sources:

• NatGeo - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-sustainable-tourism-means
• Proven Partners - What Makes a Hotel Eco-Friendly? https://www.proven.partners/blog/eco-friendly-hotel
• The Conversation - Why Australia Might Be at Risk of Overtourism - https://theconversation.com/why-australia-might-be-at-risk-of-overtourism-99213
• NatGeo - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/renewable-energy-how-hotels-make-a-difference
• UNSW Sydney - The carbon footprint of AirBnB is likely bigger than you think - https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2021/05/the-carbon-footprint-of-airbnb-is-likely-bigger-than-you-think
• CNN - https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/eco-friendly-hotels-greenwashing-cmd/index.html

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Rockefeller-founded brand Paravel claims to make the "world's first carbon-neutral suitcases." The company's mission is also to make the world a better place. Are either of these things realistic? Join marketing writers Tiff and Kat as they explore the highfalutin world of luxury sustainable travel in your favorite sustainability podcast.

Sources

• Paravel: https://tourparavel.com/collections/luggage 
• Nat Geo: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-sustainable-tourism-means 
• CNN: https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/paravel-travel-luggage 
• Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2021/09/the-net-positive-manifesto 
• Travel & Leisure: https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-tips/how-to-recycle-an-old-suitcase 
• Terracycle: https://shop.terracycle.com/en-US/products/luggage-and-travel-bag-boxes-zero-waste-boxes 

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Airplanes and passenger jets get a lot of flak for emissions and pollution. But just how much does your flight overseas affect climate change? And what are scientists and the government doing to try and fix it? Find out in this week's episode of your favorite green living podcast.

Sources:

• Kat’s rocket scientist sister
• Our World in Data - Sector by sector: where do global greenhouse emissions come from? - https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
• The Commons - How to Fly Sustainably: 6 Tips to Cut Your Carbon “Flight” Print - https://www.thecommons.earth/blog/simple-steps-to-make-flying-more-sustainable
• Ascent, the aviation sustainability center - https://ascent.aero/
• Nasa, Partners Explore Sustainable Fuel’s Effects on Aircraft Contrails - https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasa-partners-explore-sustainable-fuels-effects-on-aircraft-contrails/
• FAA (Federal Aviation Admin) - Fueling Aviation’s Sustainable Transitions (FAST) Grants - https://www.faa.gov/general/fueling-aviations-sustainable-transition-fast-grants/
• App in the Air -- https://appintheair.com/ 
• US Dept of Energy - Alternative Fuels Data Center - https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/sustainable-aviation-fuel
• Built In - What Are Electric Planes? https://builtin.com/articles/electric-plane

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