My guest this episode, Faiez Rana, founded the plant based, all organic, locally focused, zero waste food prep company 'Prep to Your Door' with his now wife, Heather.  We discuss how they got started, the motivation for and challenges to staying sustainable while scaling the business, and how small businesses & start ups can beContinueContinue reading "Preparing Delicious Solutions"

This weeks guest is Emmy award winning and Oscar nominated documentary filmmaker and environmental activist Josh Fox. Josh also worked closely with the Bernie Sanders campaign in both 2016 and 2020 as a spokesman for the anti-fracking movement. We discussed Josh's films, the environmental movement and its evolution, and how we can come out ofContinueContinue reading "Using Films to Spark Movements with Josh Fox"

This episode was just as much an introduction to the sustainable fashion industry for me as it may be for some of y'all. Diandra has got you covered on which clothes to buy and which you might want to avoid. Follow her on Instagram to keep the education going!     Links: https://www.instagram.com/diandramarizet/?hl=en https://diandramarizet.com/  ContinueContinue reading "Beyond Sustainable Fashion"

They aren't just a great source of vitamins and minerals. Mushrooms are being used to heal mental illness, replace styrofoam packaging,  repair soil, fight invasive plant species, and even consume plastic waste?!? Sam the Fungi and I spend the better part of this episode discussing these uses as well as some other intriguing aspects ofContinueContinue reading "Mushrooms Can Do It All"

Roman and Chelsea are empowering people to grow their own food with an easy to use home gardening service that sends you everything you need to grow organic herbs, and soon veggies, as well as feeding you all the information you need to succeed via smartphone app!  We discussed their startup, as well as foodContinueContinue reading "Empowering People to Grow Food"

Hemp: it's whats for breakfast, and what the breakfast came in, and the label on your breakfast, and the fuel that got you to your breakfast?!?! The potential uses for hemp are seemingly endless, and in this episode we dove into the details of a few of them as well as discussed the history ofContinueContinue reading "The Great American Comeback Story of Hemp"

Soil is everything when it comes to repairing the Earth's ecosystems, bringing back biodiversity, cleaning our water supply, and overcoming climate change. My guest on this episode, Pete VanDyck is a bit of a soil enthusiast and makes his living building out permaculture and regenerative agriculture projects and educating others on how to do theContinueContinue reading "Soil is Everything"

Topic Tuesday is back! This is a video series I started on Instagram (@philthefixer) that focuses on a new topic of sustainability in the built environment each Tuesday. This week I am sharing with you an episode on Cradle to Cradle, which is a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems that models humanContinueContinue reading "Topic Tuesday: Cradle to Cradle"

We finally did it... An episode about veganism.  Isaac Mogannam of PLOW distribution and I conversed about why we chose to go plant-based, how it changed our perspective on life, and how he turned it into a career. Isaac has an amazingly inspirational story that made this conversation even more impactful for me and hopefullyContinueContinue reading "Meat the Future"

Biomimicry is the design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes. On this episode I spoke with biomimicry specialist, Kathy Zarsky about how nature is not only a place to escape to, to improve mental health and well-being, but also holds blueprints for how to design ourContinueContinue reading "Looking to Nature for Solutions"