It's Tuesday! Topic Tuesday! 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 Permaculture featuring the Earthrepairian himself, Woody Welch.

A talk about the youth climate movement and growing up in the middle of a global ecological crisis with three of the organizers from the Austin climate strike and founders of Austin Climate Coalition.   Music: “Long Road” – PABLO.POS

This week's guest, Karin Ascot, has worked with the City of Austin's Environmental Department as well as the Texas Chapter of the Sierra Club, but is currently planning construction for a regenerative agriculture "EcoVillage" here in Central Texas. We discussed the idea behind it and its potential to reshape the way we view modern communitiesContinue reading "Using Regenerative Agriculture to Foster Community and Fight Climate Change"

Season 2 begins with a conversation with Stacy Savage, Founder and CEO of Zero Waste Strategies, LLC, on waste diversion, the circular economy, and the policies driving a zero waste future. Music: “Long Road” – Donovonn

Happy Tuesday! 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 one of my most popular episodes on biophilic design.  

On this first episode of 2019 and first episode of the podcast under the new name, "just to save the world.", I meet Woody Welch and immediately jump into the longest, most thought provoking, and possibly most life changing conversation that I have had with a guest. We discuss his career as a photographer, hisContinue reading "Healing People, Healing the Earth"

On this final episode of 2018 I got the opportunity to chat with Omeed Badkoobeh. Omeed is the CEO and co-founder of  the solar + storage technology startup, Yotta Solar. We discussed his personal journey within the solar industry, how the industry has evolved during that time, and the technology he and his team areContinue reading "Revolutionizing Solar + Storage Technology"

This is a video series I started on Instagram that focuses on a new topic of sustainability each Tuesday. Sometimes I post the audio to my podcast and this is one of those times. This episode of Topic Tuesday focuses on the zero waste movement. I hope you enjoy the lighter, more comedic (in aContinue reading "Topic Tuesday: Zero Waste"

On this episode I am educated and inspired myself by the extremely kind and experienced Kirsten Jacobsen of Eco Living Matrix. We discuss her time, over 24 years, with Earthship Biotecture which is an eco-construction and sustainable living community in Taos, New Mexico. We also dive into the current state of the sustainability movement, howContinue reading "From Building Earthships to Creating a Hub for Sustainable Building Education"

On this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with the amazing Jenny Ballard who, alongside her husband Jason, helped found TreeHouse and Icon3D. A sustainable home upgrade company and a 3D printed home company respectively. We discuss those two companies as well as her decision to home school her children, Titus and Eden, andContinue reading "Raising Cosmic Citizens"