The Conservation Conversation - Season 1

Ep. 31 - What's In The Water

Are your household products poisoning you? Is your tp water? Your shower? Did you know that your "non-stick" pans are made with a toxic chemical that will stay in you and the environment forever.

Known as forever chemicals, PFAS and many other toxins are found worldwide, and they have a direct impact on the health of the surrounding communities.

We will be talking about the water pollutants and how they affect the surrounding community's health, and we try unsuccessfully to speak with Stel Bailey from fight4zero.org, but don't worry, she is in ep. 32!

It's a great opportunity to learn not only about PFAS and other contaminants, and we will be talking about how everyone can make a difference in the battle for a cleaner future!

EP. 30 - GOOD NEWS IN THE NEWS

Excited to be back!! Today we will discuss some great news around the world on the eco level. Of course, there are always difficult news stories to discuss, but today we celebrate the positive - the changes we have made by demanding change from our manufacturers!

Our Revolution Through Routine is gaining momentum worldwide!!!!

THIS FRIDAY EP. 29 - SUSTAINABLE SUMMER

It's summertime, and we all will be spending more time outdoors. Our revolution through routine will be more important than any other season.

It's one of the most important seasons for many resort towns, but it's also one of the most dangerous for reefs and healthy beaches.

From your flip flops to your sunscreen, every choice you make affects the world around you - and this episode will delve into ways to make sure your summers are safe for you and the world around you.

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Ep. 28 - Revolution Through Routine!

Change the world without leaving your house! This episode will focus on sustainable ways to make changes in your daily routine that will have a far-reaching impact on the health of the world.

From buying furniture to toilet paper, each and every action we take has ripples beyond our vision on the world around us.

Very often these connections between daily products and nature are obscured by good advertising and or campaigns, so we will delve into some of the issues surrounding our day to day activities.

You don't need to be in the field fighting to change the world, you can make the biggest impact by joining our Revolution Through Routine!

Because I have received a lot of feedback from folks I am going to move the Podcast to Saturdays as requested so more people can get involved and join our conversation!

See you Saturday here on FB or on Youtube (adding Instagram and Twitter video soon)

Ep. 27 - Earth Day Special

We are all celebrating the outside while stuck inside.

Perfect time for Spring cleaning! Tomorrow we will talk about helpful ways to recycle or upcycle old and unused items in the house.

The more I do my spring cleaning the more I find things I am not sure how to throw away. With the Environment hanging in the balance, every piece of trash can tip the scales.

We will also be talking about local issues, what is happening in your neighborhood?

With all of the recent focus on CoronaVirus and the many arguments surrounding it, one thing that has been left out of conversations is the Environment.

Do you have a topic you want to share with everyone on the show tomorrow?

Skype onto the show and join!!!!!!

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Ep. 26 - Special Guest Kerry David!

Special guest Kerry David, will talk about her documentary Breaking Their Silence!

In my experience, Conservation tends to be more male-dominated in the public eye, while actually being mostly driven by women through direct action, art, science, and policy changes.

My guest Kerry David wants to change that visibility and conversation.

Focusing on the women battling the front lines of poaching, Kerry's film has been winning awards and opening minds all throughout 2019, and I am very excited to have her on the show!

Using the film to help spread the message, Kerry has been working tirelessly to bring awareness about the topic of poaching and finding ways for positive changes in the future to prevent it.

The Trailer for Breaking Their Silence:

You can check out the doc here:

Kerry's website to learn more about her experience and work:

Ep. 25 - Overpopulation and the Cost of Costco

Everynight on the news we see Costco parking lots filled to the max, and people buying huge bulk amounts of toilet paper with fears of quarantine.

And it's no coincidence, Americans are approx. 4% of the world's population, but consume 20% of the world's paper products.

On tomorrow's episode, we will talk about Costco toilet paper, and the price our climate is paying for it.

Unfortunately, one of Costco's biggest sellers — toilet paper — is contributing to the destruction of Canada's great boreal forest, which covers about half of Canada. Sadly, since 1996, 22 million acres — an area roughly the size of Indiana — have been cut down to produce virgin fiber pulp, the key ingredient in premium toilet paper and hand tissues.

Is your brand listed on here? These are the results of the NRDC's report grading the sustainability of each.

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Ep. 24 - Back To Nature

Great internet, no food or water - a sign of the times.

This week's guest is my good friend Scott Countryman , who runs the Coral Triangle Conservancy, and is currently on a small island with no running water in the Philippines.

Under threat of arrest, he cannot leave the island to buy food, and in these times he focuses on surviving every day.

As we all face lockdown internationally due to an animal born virus, we are taking the environment around us more seriously than ever.

Many people are stuck inside imagining a simpler life on an island far from humans.

Scott will join us and discuss his situation right now, and also take us on a tour of the island and some of the inventive solutions he has created to live off the grid and keep the balance of human need and keeping nature natural.

Please check out Scott's website for his work, where he spends his life to save the fastly disappearing corals in a legendary area known as the Coral Triangle.

His goal is to become net positive for the biosphere because sustainability is not enough!

http://ree.ph/

The Coral Triangle is a roughly triangular area of the tropical marine waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste that contain at least 500 species of reef-building corals in each ecoregion

You can watch the show live at facebook.com/erik.crown

We will talk about positive solutions to move forward and how we can improve after the pandemic to change the way we live and demand companies treat the Earth.

Ep. 23

With everyone talking about the CoronaVirus, it's a good time to examine The Ecology of Disease - a term used by biologists and economists to understand the relationship between nature and man’s effect on it.

Most diseases have started from human actions that change the natural world around us, and environmental issues and pollution causing over 60% of the infectious diseases we catch originate in animals.

A few examples include AIDS, Ebola, and Lyme disease.

How we treat our world is how the world treats us, and we will talk about ways we can help the planet from our Revolution through Routine.

On a personal level, this topic really resonates with many of the unanswered questions I have about how the environment affected my Cancer. This question has turned into a personal mission of mine over the last few years to investigate and shed light on the environmental factors that contribute to our new hybrid cancers that are increasing at an alarming rate from the poisoned world around us.

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Ever go to the store and not sure exactly what all of the new labels mean?

How can you make sure you are shopping in alignment with your conscience? We all have different approaches to how we eat, but we all want access to safe foods.

We will delve into the variety of labels, and how some countries try unique approaches to labeling products.

With labeling laws being loosened in this country, it's more important than ever to know what each label guarantees, some are good, and some are deceptions!

See you tomorrow at 2pm (pst)

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or the youtube channel

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