Diamond Spratling, an impact-driven environmental health professional and non-profit leader, discusses her TEDx talk, The Secret to Clean Energy: Addressing The Root Causes of Energy Burden.

Key Points From This Episode

• A warm introduction to today's guest, Diamond Spratling
• Diamond's educational and professional background.
• How she got into doing the work that she's involved in today.
• Her definition of environmental justice.
• Breaking down the three aspects of environmental justice: Earth, built, and social.
• What energy burden is and why our guest decided to speak about it.
• Why income is a big factor of energy burden.
• What an acceptable energy burden percentage looks like.
• Energy burden versus utility burden.
• Taking a look at some of the root causes of energy burden.
• Why America is failing in financial literacy education.
• How to implement financial literacy education in America.
• The importance of educating the youth as early as possible.
• Diamond provides a link between improved financial literacy and the energy burden crisis.
• What Girl + Environment is and why she brought it to fruition.

Links Mentioned in Today's Episode

• The Secret to Clean Energy: Addressing Root Causes of Energy Burden | Diamond Spratling | TEDxBGSU
• YFP Planning: Financial Planning for Pharmacists
• Schedule a free Discovery Call with YFP Planning
• Insuring Income: Get Quotes and Apply for Term Life and Disability Insurance
• Girl Plus Environment
• Financial Literacy Statistics: FfinEDge, University of Chicago
• Follow Girl Plus Environment on Twitter: @girlenvironment
• Follow Girl Plus Environment on Instagram: @girlplusenvironment
• Connect with Girl Plus Environment on Facebook
• Connect with Diamond Spratling on LinkedIn
• Follow Diamond Spratling on Twitter: @diamondsprat
• Your Financial Pharmacist Disclaimer and Disclosures