The Impact Zero Podcast

Join Erin Andrews, Founder & Executive Director of Impact Zero as she chats with Sarah, Adam, and Marcus - the co-founders of Aevi Solutions! They want to help small businesses not just reduce their environmental impacts, but also reduce their operating costs at the same time! Learn more about what it's like to start a small consulting firm with your best friends to help Toronto's SMEs make some significant change together!

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Aevi Solutions: https://www.aevisolutions.com/
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Join Erin Andrews, Founder & Executive Director of Impact Zero as she chats with Jordan Smith! He's the founder of Renterii, a sharing platform for Toronto to meet their neighbours, make some money, and save the planet!

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Download Renterii: https://renterii.com/
Follow Renterii on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renteriiapp/
Follow Renterii on Facebook: https://www.linkedin.com/company/renterii/

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Join Erin Andrews, Founder & Executive Director of Impact Zero as she chats with Eric Corey Freed! He's a co-author of Circular Economy for Dummies, and tells us all about what it's like to write the book on such a complex topic, how to keep climate anxiety away, and what the magical world of biomimicry could look like!

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Get Circular Economy for Dummies: https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/?searchtype=keyword&qs=circular+economy+for+dummies&qs_file=&q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword
Follow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericcoreyfreed
Learn more about the Book: https://circulareconomyfordummies.com/

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Join Erin Andrews, Founder & Executive Director of Impact Zero as she chats with Marc Goldgrub from Green Economy Law Professional Corporation! He's the knowledge we needed about two weeks ago when Erin tried to make her way through the carbon tax explanation. If you liked that episode - you must listen to this in FULL!

We talk about what a carbon tax is, if it's really a "tax", how it's different from a cap & trade system, what it means for green investment, what it means for individuals, and much more!

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Learn more about GELPC: www.greeneconomylaw.com
GELPC Supreme Court Decision Article: https://www.greeneconomylaw.com/blog/explaining-canadas-constitutional-carbon-pricing-decision
Sign up for the GELPC Newsletter: www.greeneconomylaw.com/newsletter-signup
Follow GELPC on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-economy-law-professional-corporation/
Email Marc: [email protected]

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Join Erin Andrews, Founder & Executive Director of Impact Zero as she chats with Linsay Moran, one of three co-founders of Unwrapit!

We talk about what's wrong in the events/expo/swag gifting industry, how to make gifting sustainable, what a swag-less world could look like, what the barriers are right now, and how to start a business with not one, not two, but THREE co-founders?!

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Learn more about Unwrapit: www.unwrapit.com
Follow Unwrapit on Twitter: twitter.com/unwrapitdotcom
Follow Unwrapit on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/unwrapit

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This week is a solo episode with Erin Andrews, the Founder & Executive Director of Impact Zero! We needed to take a second to slow down and talk about the big Supreme Court decision about the federal carbon tax, as well as get grounded again in what Impact Zero is working on which will help make sure this carbon tax doesn't have a negative impact on people who don't have green options and don't have a lot of disposable income.

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Articles Discussed
CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/politics/supreme-court-federal-carbon-tax-constitutional-case-1.5962687
Financial Post: financialpost.com/opinion/why-the-federal-carbon-tax-wont-work-to-reduce-emissions

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This week we chat with Christina Quach, she is passionate about bringing an intersectional approach to environmental issues by bridging the gap between social and environmental issues. She comes from a Political Studies and a Social Work background. She has worked and volunteered in advocacy, the child welfare system, engaging in food justice initiatives, bringing environmental issues to social issues courses, and more. Through her social justice work and lens, Christina has seen the relationship between how the environmental impacts human well-being and vice versa. Christina's goal is to inform and address environmental issues from a human rights perspective.

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Follow Christina on Instagram: www.instagram.com/earthto.tino

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This week we chat with Charles Binks-Collier, the Founder and CEO of Circulr, a local company looking to reuse reusable packaging. Charles is one of our two Impact Projects participating in our Impact Project Accelerator, and here we chat about why he started Circulr, what their goal is as a company, and why they're doing what they do.

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Learn more about Circulr:
Follow Circulr on Instagram: www.instagram.com/circulr.inc
Like Circulr on Facebook: www.facebook.com/circulrshop

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Vote to get CASE: www.getcase.ca/tellmemore
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This week we chat with a whole panel of guests during the last week of Drawdown Toronto's Just Eat It! Foo Waste Challenge. This last week's interview was so inspiring and informative that we had to re-share it here to the podcast. If you'd like to follow up with the last 6 interviews we produce with Drawdown Toronto, you can watch them at drawdowntoronto.ca/food-waste-challenge

Angelina La is lead of Waste Watchers, a youth-led group working to take action on food waste in the GTHA. (@food_unity_)

Leslie Solomonian is the co-founder of Naturopathic Doctors for Environmental and Social Trust (NEST), to support the naturopathic profession to engage in advocacy for the social and ecological determinants of planetary health. (@nestnds)

Dr. Antonia Sappong & Lindura Sappong are the co-founders of Plastic Free Toronto, where they work together to educate and inspire their community to deal with issues of environmental pollution, climate change, poverty, and institutionalized racism. (@plasticfreeto)

Tony Colley is the owner of B12Give, a local company that donates excess food waste from businesses and redistributes it to organizations helping to feed food-insecure communities. (@b12give)

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Learn more about Drawdown Toronto: drawdowntoronto.ca/food-waste-challenge
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Learn More about I LIVE ECO: www.iliveeco.co
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This week we chat with Ally Mitchell, the Founder and Owner of Ocean Plastic Pots. Ocean Plastic Pots is inspired by Ally Mitchell’s passion and determination to help turn the tide on the large volume of plastic found in our seas, causing grave harm to the future of our planet. Together we chat about why he started Ocean Plastic Pots, how to change consumer mindsets, how he's incorporated circular economy into his product design and how his manufacturing process is entirely zero-waste!

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Learn more about Ocean Plastic Pots: oceanplasticpots.com
Follow Ocean Plastic Pots on Instagram: www.instagram.com/ocean.plastic.pots

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Watch the SHORELINE Trailer: www.agreenerfuture.ca/shoreline
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