How did Green Team Academy get its start? What have we done so far? What's next for GTA? Join us for a journey through time and help us create the future of climate action in this episode of our series, "The Future of Climate Action (FCA): Empowering Communities". Join us for our live sessions. Register for free at https://www.greenteamacademy.org Ready to launch your eco-initiative in 90 days? Register for our next International Climate Action Challenge. [00:00:00] Welcome [00:00:13] International Attendees [00:00:37] Agenda [00:01:00] Our Mission [00:01:27] October Fundraiser [00:01:53] The Future of Climate Action Series [00:02:41] You're Our Dream Team [00:03:10] We're told to "Make a Difference" but not taught how [00:03:46] My First Publication: The Brown Cloud poem [00:03:59] Couldn't have predicted that we're not prioritizing caring for the planet [00:04:37] Frustration with engineering not being the solution [00:05:12] Niwot Recycling [00:05:50] Learning skills we don't get in corporations or in school [00:06:06] Founding Sustainable Revolution Longmont [00:06:39] Having fun with kids is surprisingly effective [00:07:19] 1,000 Attendees for the 2015 Youth of the Earth Festival [00:07:38] Longmont Passed a Sustainability Plan [00:08:11] 2018: Started GTA as a project [00:08:25] 2018: Started the Green Team Academy Podcast [00:09:11] 2019: Piloted the Green Team Accelerator Lab [00:09:26] 2019: 1st Annual Earth Week Summit [00:10:25] 2020: 2nd Annual Earth Week Summit during the pandemic [00:10:55] 2020: Wrote and Published "Climate Action Challenge" book [00:11:17] Using Addiction Recovery and Transformation from Wellness Coaching [00:13:47] 2020: Hosted the 1st Annual Climate Action Challenge [00:14:39] 2021: Fiscal sponsorship, Earth Week Summit, Podcast, ICAC21 [00:15:01] Challenger Stories [00:15:31] Environmental Justice / Climate Justice [00:15:49] Amplifying the Voices and Connecting Changemakers [00:16:15] Value of Connecting [00:16:45] Group Coaching / Group Support [00:17:14] That's why Green Team Academy offers ICAC [00:17:29] 2022: New director, Gin DeMaio [00:17:47] 2022: Earth Week Summit [00:18:06] 2022: 3rd Annual International Climate Action Challenge Impact (ICAC22) [00:19:19] Cumulative Impact: ICAC 2020, 2021, 2022 [00:19:49] 2023: Gin's Field Trip to Uganda [00:20:33] Youth TimeBanking: Making Bricks for a School [00:20:59] 2023: Co-Directors Gin DeMaio & Joan Gregerson [00:21:48] Get Out the Vote Teams: 2020 and 2024 [00:23:09] Next Week's Session Featuring Filipino Thought Leaders: Dann Diez & Lanie Francisco

2023 Fall Fundraiser Series The Future of Climate Action: Transforming Our Communities Oct 12 - Dec 7, 2023, 9 am MT Register for free to join us live at https://www.greenteamacademy.org/2023... Join us for a lively online series to explore the future of climate action! How can we transform our communities quickly and effectively to avoid the worst impacts of climate change?​Find out in this FREE online series OPEN TO ALL. Join us on Zoom each Thursday.​Hosted by Green Team Academy's Co-Directors, Joan Gregerson and Gin DeMaio, will bring you timely insights for today's most important issue: caring for humanity, biodiversity, and our planet in times of worsening climate change. We'll hear insights from challengers in the International Climate Action Challenges who have launched their own initiatives around the world. We'll get input from experts and community members. Ready to #BeTheChange? Register for our upcoming International Climate Action Challenge at https://www.greenteamacademy.org

If you've heard of permaculture but you're not sure what it actually is, you're in luck! Join me for a conversation with Lee Recca, President of the Denver Permaculture Guild (DPG).

In this interview, we'll explore what permaculture is and discuss their upcoming Permaculture Design courses.

Denver Permaculture Guild (DPG) is a community-organized, membership-based nonprofit with the aim of building healthy, resilient, regenerative, and inclusive Denver area communities.

DPG is offering a Permaculture Design Course from April through October 2021, with a mix of remote and in-person workshops. The course includes the core 72-hour internationally certified curriculum as well as detailed breakout sessions and regionally appropriate resources.

DPG is also offering a hands-on, intensive outdoor course starting in late July. Additional 2021 course offerings include Social Permaculture, Advanced Landscape Design using Permaculture, Financial Permaculture, Decolonizing, and Indigenous Phenology.

Links:
-- Denver Permaculture Guild https://denverpermacultureguild.org/

Books:
There are many great books on permaculture. Here are a few:
-- The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country by Peter Bane
https://newsociety.com/books/p/the-permaculture-handbook
-- Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/gaias-garden/
-- The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience, by Toby Hemenway
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-permaculture-city/
-- Permaculture in Pots: How to Grow Food in Small Urban Spaces by Juliet Kemp
https://www.amazon.com/Permaculture-Pots.../dp/185623097X
-- Permaculture: A Designer's Manual by Bill Mollison (co-founder of the movement)
https://www.amazon.com/Permaculture.../dp/0908228015

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Whatever you do, don’t start out by planning. If you do, you’re likely to set up roadblocks that might not even be real! Instead, use creative visualization to dream big.

 

[1:00] Don’t start with planning. Start with dreaming.

[1:40] Go big or go home.

[1:50] There’s no harm in dreaming big.

[2:10] Big adventures happen when we dreamed big first, then planned how to make it happen.

[2:50] Decide first, then something magical happens.

[3:10] Have a creative visualization experience. Book: Creative Visualization, by Shakti Gawain.

[3:40] Creative visualization example: parenting and conflict with toddler

[4:10] First thing is to imagine the situation that you want.

[4:20] It was hard to even just imagine harmony.

[5:10] Start with “I wonder if”, “Wouldn’t it be cool if”, “Would those cool people want to work on this?”

[5:50] Include youth in the envisioning process, since they’re so good at that.

 

Resource:

• Creative Visualization, by Shakti Gawain
• Episode 19: Can You Draw a Giraffe: Let the Kids Show You How

 

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

 

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Most every five-year-old kid will jump at the chance to dance, sing or draw. Why can’t most adults? When trying to create a better world, acknowledge that the creativity and spontaneity of youth might be just what we need.

 

Green Team Academy Podcast with Joan Gregerson

Episode 19

 

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] If you ask a five-year-old to draw a giraffe, they will do it. What if you ask an adult?

[1:30] Every five-year-old knows how to draw, dance and sing, but somehow adults don’t. What happened?

[1:40] Education has some negative side-effects. Dampens spontaneity. Dampens creativity.

[2:10] Toddler will dance, sing, draw.

[2:20] Adults suffer from a lack of spontaneity, from thinking that things are easy or doable.

[2:30] Include people as young as possible.

[3:00] Example: Four-year-old had a booth to teach about sea animals.

[4:10] The key to creating the new world that we need is all about imagination. That’s what kids are so good at.

[4:45] It might be that the experts that you need are the kids in your community.

 

Resources:

• Alan Watts
• Youth of the Earth Festival Photos

 

Thank you for listening!

 

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There are things you think people could be doing better: more recycling, better shopping choices, more renewables, different policies. But, you don’t want to bring it up. Sorry, but if you want change, you’re going to make someone uncomfortable.

 

Green Team Academy Podcast with Joan Gregerson

Episode 18

 

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] I was brought up to be a people-pleaser.

[1:30] Being polite has serious consequences.

[1:45] Talking with my dad and hearing Jimmy Carter, I thought working in energy efficiency was enough.

[2:15] There was this feeling that you couldn’t really talk about the big issues.

[3:15] This came up with people I’ve interviewed: not wanting to be pushy, wanting to stay under the radar to avoid vehement opinions about climate action.

[3:45] There is no way to stay under the radar. I’m sorry. There is no way to do this work and not make people feel uncomfortable.

[4:00] Norm engineering

[4:15] There is going to be friction there. You are going to make people uncomfortable.   

In the process of change, you need people to go from not thinking about it all, to starting to think maybe there is something wrong with what I’m doing.

[4:45] With pesticides, we needed to raise awareness about impacts with neighbors, school districts, big Ag, etc.

[5:30] Just because this isn’t an easy conversation, we aren’t going to walk away.

[5:40] There need to be people that will have these conversations. We need to forget about being people pleasers.

[6:00] Example: plastic. Those benefiting from profit, comfort, convenience.

[6:30] See the discomfort as something positive.

[6:40] Good! Now we’re being honest. Let’s talk about what we can do better.

 

Thank you for listening!

 

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

 

You don’t need to be an expert to start a green team. Don’t stop yourself by thinking you’re too much of a newbie or that you’d be a hypocrite. Start where you are!

 

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] If you feel like a newbie or that you’re not doing enough, don’t worry. Join the club! We all feel that way.

[1:30] For me, I’m still struggling buying more plastic than I’d like to.

[2:05] You might be asking yourself, Who am I to ask people to change, when I’m still struggling?

[2:15] Not knowing enough or not doing enough is no reason to stop yourself from becoming an eco-leader.

[2:25] Beginner’s mind can be an advantage

[2:30] Two types of leaders: expert and someone on a journey

[3:00] How can we do better? Personal, corporate, government

[3:45] Don’t worry if you’re a newbie or novice

[4:00] In green teams, bring people together and cross-pollinate ideas

[4:30] Don’t think that you’re being a hypocrite.

[4:35] You’re fine where you are.

[4:40] All is takes is passion and being eco-curious, curious open mind about what can be done.

 

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

What’s stopping you from becoming an eco-leader? If you’re thinking that you need experience as an eco-leader or even as a leader, at all, think again! Learn from Xiuhtezcatl Martinez’ first public speech at age six.

 

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] “Experience required”... a common criteria for jobs

[1:20] It would be natural to think that you’d need to have eco-leader or any leadership experience

[1:30] Guess what? That’s not true.

[1:35] “If you want to make an impact, you don’t already need to be a leader. But you do need to be willing to become a leader.” - Joan Gregerson

[2:00] Passion, commitment, willingness to learn, grow, work together

[2:20] “Xiuhtezcatl - first public speech at 6 yrs old” YouTube Video

“I came to talk to you today about how sacred the earth is. Most kids don’t even know that the world is sacred.”

“Every choice we make is for or against our future.”

[4:10] Xiuhtezcatl is now 18 years old: a global eco-leader, spoke at the UN three times, rapper and hip-hop artist, best-selling author of “We Rise” and youth leader of Earth Guardians.

[4:40] First met when talking about them performing at the Youth of the Earth Festival.

[5:50] Amazing support from Aztec traditions from his father and environmental educator mom

[6:40] What can we learn from Xiuhtezcatl at age 6?

• You don’t need to already be a leader to make an impact.
• You do need to believe strongly that your ideas and your voice matter.
• You have to overcome any self-doubt that would keep you from expressing your opinion
• You have to ask people to do better.
• You have to believe in and be willing to work for a better future.
• We all have to work together.
• Though you may start small, your impact may grow more than you could imagine at the beginning

[7:20] So, do you need previous experience to become an eco-leader? No, but you need to be willing to become one.

 

Shareable quotes:

 

Every choice we make is for or against our future.

- Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, at age 6

 

If you want to make an impact, you don’t already need to be a leader. But you do need to be willing to become a leader.

- Joan Gregerson

 

Resources:

• Six-year-old Xiuhtezcatl speaking in Boulder (YouTube)
• Our Chil

Don’t get discouraged before you even get started. You don’t need a huge group assembled to start. In fact, every movement starts with just two people. Can you find just one other person to work with?

 

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] Think back to any big project. How many people were really on board in the beginning?

[1:40] Once one joins, that’s a turning point. From there, you build momentum.

[2:15] Examples: family reunion

[2:40] Most people are going to say no initially. Don’t let that stop you.

[2:50] Example: company green team

[4:00] Youtube video: First Follower: Leadership Lessons from the Dancing Guy (with Derek Silver)

 

Tweetable

When you have an idea, most people are going to say no at first. Don’t let that stop you. Just see if you can find one other person to work with.

- Joan Gregerson, Green Team Academy Podcast, Episode 15

 

Resources:

• Green Team Academy Podcast: Episode 4: Tale of Two Cities
• First Follower: Leadership Lessons from the Dancing Guy (with Derek Silver)

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

This episode builds on Episode 5’s topic of having more conversations about climate change. While many in the Trump administration are denying the science around climate change, it’s up to us to know the science and be confident sharing it. Here are a few facts to share about the warmest years on record.

 

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] Have more talks about climate change (episode 5) with confidence.

[1:30] We want to have our facts straight, especially in this time of climate denial.

[2:20] What were the four warmest years on record from 1884 to 2017?

According to NASA: #1 2016, #2 2017, #3 2015, #4 2014

[3:05] 2018 is expected to be one of the top five warmest years. We’ll have to wait and see!

[3:30] According to NASA, 17 of the 18 warmest years in the 136-year record all have occurred since 2001, with the exception of 1998.

[3:50] 18 warmest years have occurred in the past two decades.

[4:00] Graphics of these facts at GreenTeamAcademy.com in the show notes

 

Resources:

• Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet (NASA)
• Green Team Academy Episode 5: The Most Important and Easiest Climate Action You Can Take
• Climate change skeptics run the Trump administration (Politico) March 2017
• Trump administration refuses to consider that 97% of climate scientists could be right Guardian, May 2018

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

 

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] What happens when you’re struggling and someone comes up and tells you directly what to do?  

[1:30] The point of a green team is to inspire change.

[1:50] Rebellion is an innate response.

[2:20] So, what are we supposed to do?

[2:30] Don’t just tell. Storytell!

[2:40] Listener’s brain lights up in the same way as the storyteller’s does.

[2:55] Human’s brains are wired for storytelling.

[3:05] Stories signal the brain to pay attention.

[3:20] Teach cause and effect, moral of the story

[3:35] Stories make deep, memorable connections.

[4:20] Circumvent tendency to rebel.

[4:30] This is why case studies are more effective than direct recommendations.

[4:40] Example: how to encourage stopping using pesticides

 

Resources:

• The Science of Storytelling: What Listening to a Story Does to Our Brains (Buffer App)
• Green Team Academy Podcast Episode 9: Introducing yourself with your “Hero’s Journey” story

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

Update: November 2018. This resource is no longer available directly on my website. Please contact me if you'd like to get it.

 

August 2018:

The revolution will not be televised! If you want to become an eco-leader, download my free Eco Film List. Get suggestions for how to stay calm and able to do this work with yoga and meditation videos. Learn about individual environmental topics: climate action, oceans, fracking, local food, plastic, and garbage.

 

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] My mom watched TV all day long but rarely heard about environmental issues.

[2:50] The revolution will not be televised - Gil Heron Scott

[3:00] Why I put together the Eco Film List.

[3:50] Watch on FMTV, Films for Action, Netflix, TED Talks, Youtube, Amazon

[4:15]

[4:30] Movies about meditation, yoga, kids yoga

[3:00] Suggest movies at GreenTeamAcademy.com

[5:20] Movie Examples:

1. Chemerical - alternatives to toxic chemicals in the home
2. Garbage: The Revolution Starts at Home - a look at one family’s garbage for a year
3. Your Environmental Road Trip - exploring sustainability projects across the U.S.
4. An Inconvenient Sequel - climate change with Al Gore
5. From Gangs to Gardens - Denver hip hop artist and vegan chef
6. Fresh - farmers, thinkers, business people reinventing our food system
7. Fed Up - obesity and the food industry’s role in it
8. Chasing Ice - National Geographic photographer James Balog
9. Dolores - Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers
10. Circle of Poison - communities fighting back against toxic pesticides
11. Climate Warriors - youth activists raising awareness of urgent need for climate action
12. How to Have Better Political Conversations - with Robb Willer
13. How I became an Activist - with Ory Okolloh and her reporting on Kenya’s parliament
14. Merchants of Doubt - uncovering the industry of experts-for-pay on toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change
15. Edible School Gardens - how to create a school garden
16. Eating Alabama - eating local for one year
17. Joanna Macy and The Great Turning - a framework for embracing the mess we’re in (Ep 3)
18. The Myth of Time - Martin Luther King, Jr

My evolution as an eco-warrior was hindered by the fact that I was so naive, for so long. Today’s episode is a short and sweet message. Instead of being gullible and trusting. be more like an investigative reporter. Don’t be naive.

Time-stamped notes

[1:00] “Naive” would be a great title for my autobiography, first 50 years.

[1:30] Extrapolated the goodness of those who raised me to our government and others.

[2:50] To be more successful, we need to be more like investigative reporters like Erin Brokovich, Jane Mayer, Anderson Cooper

[3:20] Need to move away from being overly trusting

[3:45] When I hear about things, I’m willing to dig in. Example: commercial pig farming

[4:20] I’d love to hear in the comments: when did you give up the innocence of being trusting

Resource: Erin Brokovich Movie

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195685/

 

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

 

The pandemic and economic implosion have exposed and amplified the pre-existing flaws in our food system. Hunger, access to nutritious food, and the means of food production are more important now than ever. Tune in for my interview with Benu AmunRa, a food justice advocate in Colorado.

 

Benu is working on her masters degree at Naropa University, centered on Resilient Leadership with an emphasis on Sustainable Systems. She is pursuing a doctorate in Transformative Studies in Fall 2021. 

Benu is active with numerous groups across Colorado that are filling the gaps. She will share about organizations that are providing training and resources for BIPOC farmers, food security measures for students, and much more!  

Upcoming Events:

• Hunger Action Week - March 24-31, 2021
  https://p2a.co/V8VXO2y 
• 2021 Earth Week Summit, April 17-24, https://www.earthweeksummit.com
• 2021 International Climate Action Challenge, August 18, https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

Resource Links:

• Alliance Center, Regenerative Recovery Coalition https://www.thealliancecenter.org/coalition/ 
• Bee Campus USA – https://beecityusa.org/about/
• Boulder County Health Dept. – https://www.bouldercounty.org/families/food/fruit-and-veg-boulder/
• Boulder Farmers Market – https://bcfm.org/food-access/
• Boulder Food Rescue - http://boulderfoodrescue.org
• Bronzeville- Black and Brown Growers Collective – Gathering of Peoples Event - 

The idea that social ills will just work themselves out over time is a myth. In his March 31, 1968 speech, Martin Luther King, Jr., explains how we must use time for the good of society or it will be used to our detriment by those who are using it for ill will. We can’t be “too busy” to stand up to protect each other and our planet.

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] Somehow, protecting and caring for the planet has come to be seen as a luxury if/when we have time and resources to do it.

[1:20] The idea that we don’t have time now, but maybe we or someone else in the future will: “myth of time”

[1:40] Martin Luther King, Jr. speech given on March 31, 1968, four days prior to being assassinated

[2:00] Speech excerpt: The Myth of Time (below)

[4:50] Takeaway: We can’t be too busy to stand up for the injustices. We can’t assume that time is going to work things out. Time is neutral. It’s how we use it that will determine the outcome.

Excerpt

The hour has come for everybody, for all institutions of the public sector and the private sector to work to get rid of racism. And now if we are to do it we must honestly admit certain things and get rid of certain myths that have constantly been disseminated all over our nation.

One is the myth of time. It is the notion that only time can solve the problem of racial injustice. And there are those who often sincerely say to the Negro and his allies in the white community, "Why don’t you slow up? Stop pushing things so fast. Only time can solve the problem. And if you will just be nice and patient and continue to pray, in a hundred or two hundred years the problem will work itself out."

There is an answer to that myth. It is that time is neutral. It can be used wither constructively or destructively.

And I am sorry to say this morning that I am absolutely convinced that the forces of ill will in our nation, the extreme rightists of our nation—the people on the wrong side—have used time much more effectively than the forces of goodwill. And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."

Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God. And without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Resources:

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution

Martin Luther King Jr Reseatch and Education Institute Stanford University

Speech delivered March 31, 1968 at the National Cathedral, Washington DC

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/publications/knock-midnight-inspiration-great-sermons-reverend-martin-luther-king-jr-10

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

 

Before giving a presentation, tell your Hero’s Journey story. Include the beginning, middle and end of your journey to show how your experiences have perfectly prepared you to help your audience now.

[1:00] Advocating for environmental actions is all about change. There is a lot of built-in resistance.

[1:30] Tell your story before launching into a presentation.

[1:45] Joseph Campbell and others talk about Hero’s Journey. Plot of every adventure story.

[2:00] Hero’s Journey: start where you are, go on an adventure, then return home and share wisdom.

[3:30] Design your Hero’s Journey story to be as short as 30 seconds to 1 minute, or as long as you like.

[3:45] Example: weight loss coaching story

[4:35] Example: anxiety coaching story

[5:20] Climate Reality Training: Tell your story before you start your talk

[6:05] Example: climate action story

[7:00] Leave a comment: What’s your Hero’s Journey?

 

Thank you for listening!

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

 

Explore the revolutionary act of making food at home with poetry and research.

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] Intro

[1:30] Poem by Joan: Just Go Home and Eat

[3:05] As a kid, rarely went out to eat.

[3:20] Constantly tempted to eat crap. Why is that?

[3:35] Fast Food Facts 2013 published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

[5:05] Wow! That’s why it’s so hard to resist!

[5:30] Eating home is an act of revolution

[5:50] Investing in the future we want

[6:00] How can we do this? Anywhere on the engagement ladder

[6:25] This could be the focus of a green team. Example: Vegan dinner night

[7:00] Can you impact policies around food in schools, local, state, and federal levels?

[7:45] Mindful eating is a way to change how we eat. Helps us make deeper, better choices.

[8:35] Hope this has inspired you to explore how eating at home can be a revolutionary act

Complete poem and research links at http://www.greenteamacademy.com/blog/008-food-advertising-and-poetry-just-go-home-and-eat

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

 

This is a beautiful story about two girls who started at age 10 and 12 with the initial goal of being significant. Through their efforts, the Governor of Bali agreed to help Indonesia be plastic-bag-free by 2018. It’s a story of determination, creativity and commitment. They formed a youth organization, collected petition signatures, gave educational talks and went on a hunger strike. Their takeaway is that youth can make change. And my takeaway is that there is no reason that any of us can’t also be significant now.

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] Many of us think that we’re not the ones to be eco-leaders. Someone else would be better.

[1:30] Melati and Isabel Wijsen, sisters, age 10 and 12 in Bali

[2:00] Decided to become significant now.

[2:30] Decided to focus on plastic bags

[3:10] Learned that most plastic bags end up in the ocean, the others are burned or litter.

[3:25] Lesson 1: You cannot do it by yourself Formed the Bye Bye Plastic Bags youth group. Started online petitions Give educational presentations to raise awareness Distribute alternate bags, made my locals Goal: petition with 1 million signatures

[4:00] Lesson 2: Think outside the box. Bali airport handles 16 million

[4:20] Lesson 3: Persistence. Got permission to collect signatures behind customs and immigration

[4:30] Lesson 4: Need champions at all levels of society: Ban Ki Moon, Jane Goodall

[5:15] Learned patience, how to deal with frustration, leadership, friendship, teamwork, Balinese culture, commitment

[5:40] Decided to do a hunger strike after learning more about Mahatma Gandhi.

[6:05] 24 hours later we were picked up from school and escorted to the Governor. He signed a promise to help the people say no to plastic bags in Bali by 2018.

[6:20] Not the end of the journey

[6:30] Working with stakeholders groups in different regions. Still on this journey today

[6:40] Kids can do things. We can make things happen. Don’t need a business plan or agenda.

[6:55] Kids have a boundless energy and motivation to be the change this world needs.

[7:10] Youth are 25% of the population but are 100% of the future.

[7:20] Engagement ladder: no matter what your initiative is, you will have to engage at all different levels to be successful

 

Resources:

Melati and Isabel Wijsen: Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali

TED Talk, September 2016

https://www.ted.com/talks/melati_and_isabel_wijsen_our_campaign_to_ban_plastic_bags_in_bali#t-375318

Bye Bye Plastic Bags

http://www.byebyeplasticbags.org/

 

Thank you for listening!

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

Pioneered by Janine Benyus, "Biomimicry" is a way of looking at nature and life as our mentors to find solutions for every aspect of life. Recommended resources include the 26-minute Biomimicry video on YouTube and the book.

[1:10] First read the book Biomimicry cover-to-cover in 1997. It changed my life.

[1:20] Basic idea is that life has already solved all the complex design problems through 3.8 billion years of trial and error.

[1:40] How would you make a super-strong adhesive underwater: non-toxic, biodegradable, self-assembling

[2:00] Best shape for something strong and stretchy?

[2:20] Cable stronger than steel and as elastic as rubber, Non-toxic, ambient temperature?

[2:35] Resources: Biomimicry book and a gorgeous video on YouTube (Janine Benyus talking with nature photography)

[3:10] What is biomimicry? Innovation inspired by nature.

[3:20] The natural world has already solved any problem that we are trying to solve.

[3:30] There are some 30-100 million species. In this diversity there is also unity.

[3:50] Life’s operating instructions: how to be an earthling. Life’s principles (see below)

[4:50] As a young species, consider ourselves as apprentices to masters.

[5:00] Replace industrial chemistry with nature’s chemistry as an Apollo Project.

[5:50] Organism make chemicals in and near their own body, so can’t afford high temperatures or toxicity.

[6:00] Nature is good at making hard ceramics.

[6:10] Example: mother-of-pearl inside of abalone shell using protein, with calcium and carbonate in seawater to self-assemble inspiring chemists to learn how to make hard ceramics without a kiln.

[7:35] We can be humble apprentices learning from our biological elders.

[7:50] This is a big shift from the egotistical view of thinking that we as humans have all the answers, know what’s best and can outdo nature.

[8:00] If we can flip our thinking around, it makes our job easier because the blueprint is in front of us.

 

Life’s Principles:

Life runs on current sunlight. (We run on ancient photosynthesis trapped in fossil fuels.)

Life does its chemistry in water as the universal solvent. (We tend to use very toxic chemicals like sulphuric acid.)

Life depends on local expertise. Organisms have to know the limits and opportunities of their places.

Life banks on diversity and rewards cooperation.

Life wastes nothing, upcycles everything and most of all does not foul its home.

Life uses a small subset of the periodic table: the safe elements. (We use all elements.)

Life uses low temperatures, low pressure, low toxicity. (We force elements to bond or break with high temperatures and pressures.)

Quotes:

The best ideas might not be ours. They might already have been invented.

Janine Benyus

As a young species, our best stance is to be apprentices to our biological masters.

Janine Benyus

Resources:

Video Biomimicry with Janine Benyus

Published by TreeTV on September 11, 2015

https://youtu.be/sf4oW8OtaPY

Book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Janine Benyus, originally published in 1997

http://a.co/hvu175v

 

Thank you for listening!

 

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Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] Taboo subjects not only restrain discussions, but they constrict solutions too

[1:30] All of us can have more conversations about climate action, and that could be the most important climate action we can take.

[2:00] Climate Change in the American Mind report from Yale and George Mason Universities

[2:35] 70% of Americans think global warming is happening

[2:50] 58% believe that global warming is caused in part by human activities

[3:05] Only 15% of Americans understand the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change.

[3:20] We can have more conversations to increase that number.

[3:35] 62% of Americans are at least somewhat worried about global warming.

[3:45] 62% are interested, 45% feel helpless, 41% feel hopeful

[4:00] 61% say global warming is affecting the weather in the U.S. right now

[4:05] 41% say they’ve personally experienced the effects of global warming

[4:15] 71% think global warming will harm future generations

[4:20] 63% feel global warming is important to them personally

[4:30] So, the majority of American adults feel it’s important. You’d think people would be talking about it, but no :-(

[5:10] Only 35% American adults say they discuss global warming with family and friends “often” or “occasionally”. More say they “rarely” or “never” discuss it (65%).

[5:30] One in three don’t talk about it because “it never comes up”.

[5:45] Spiral of silence: We don’t talk about it because it never comes up.

[6:20] Only four in ten Americans (43%) say they hear about global warming in the media at least once a month

[6:30] In the U.S. federal administration, we have people proactively deleting mention of climate change.

[7:00] As individuals, the place we need to start working is having conversation to change hearts and minds.

[7:20] When I drive for Uber, I find ways to talk about climate change through hurricanes, wildfires or changes since youth.

[8:00] Let’s work together on ways to have more conversations. Please leave a comment or question.

Resources:

Climate Change in the American Mind

This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (climatecommunication.yale.edu) and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (climatechangecommunication.org), Interview dates: March 7 – 24, 2018. Interviews: 1,278 Adults (18+). Average margin of error +/- 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-march-2018/

Is There a Climate “Spiral of Silence” in America?

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, September 23, 2016

http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-spiral-silence-america/

The most important thing you can do to fight global warming: End the climate "spiral of silence."

Joe Romm, Apr 19, 2018

https://thinkprogress.org/the-most-important-thing-you-can-do-to-fight-global-warming-b0cbe1fdf775/

How Much Has ‘Climate Change’ Been Scrubbed From Federal Websites? A Lot.

Coral Davenport, Jan. 10, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/climate/climate-change-trump.html

Thank you for listening!

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Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] Today’s episode is about my experiences trying to get eco-actions going in Niwot and Longmont, Colorado. In retrospect, I can see mistakes I made and strategies that worked.

[1:45] Niwot - worked solo to get recycling center in

[2:30] Longmont - offered job in Longmont to start just after 500-year flooding event.

[3:20] Found one person to join me and we started Sustainable Revolution Longmont

[3:35] Started working toward Earth Day 2015. Writing grants. Got fiscal sponsorship. Started youth leadership council.

[4:30] Had 70 exhibitors, 35 of which were youth booths

[5:00] Mayor and City Council members attended

[5:10] Link to Sustainable Resilient Longmont 2015 Youth of the Earth Festival photos http://www.srlongmont.org/photos--videos-2015.html [5:20] Youth and adult attended city council and school board meetings. Got much of what we wanted

[5:40] Non-profit is still going forward even after I left: Sustainable Resilient Longmont

[6:20] If you’ve tried and didn’t have success in the past, it might have been timing but it might be that there are other strategies that will work better.

[6:30] List of strategies to use, to avoid mistakes when starting a green team:

• Embrace leadership
• Build a core team
• Dream of a better world
• Find partners
• Plan an initial big event
• Get ready to take money
• Become an official group
• Promote, promote, promote
• Hold an initial big event
• Document and re-evaluate
• Celebrate your successes
• Include youth in leadership and families
• Include art and music

 

Thank you for listening!

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

 

Green Team Academy Episode 3

Handling Overwhelm with wisdom from the film: Joanna Macy and The Great Turning

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] Handling overwhelm is the foundational skill, the foundational challenge of being an eco-leader

[2:45] Introducing the film

[3:05] Gustav Young: Running through each life is a question

[3:30] Excerpt 1: The biggest gift we can give is to be present to our time

[4:15] Excerpt 2: Dealing with the pain of these times

[5:55] Don’t be afraid of your heart breaking open. The heart that breaks open can hold the whole universe.

[7:45] So, that’s what I wanted to share with you! A framework for handling overwhelm

Film: Joanna Macy & The Great Turning

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Gustav Young had said that running through each life like a thread is a question that you come to answer. The big question is more important than the answer by far

Excerpt 1:

How do we be fully present to our world when the suffering and the prospects for conscious life forms are so grim. How do we look straight into the face of our time, which is the biggest give we can give, to be present to our time. It’s so tempting to want to just pull back, like a turtle inside its shell. It’s so tempting to close your eyes. Busy yourself with other things. How do we be with our world without going crazy. I think, For the past 40 years, that’s been the question that’s pursued me. I’m actually grateful for it. When you find a question like that, it’s good news.

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Excerpt 2:

Dealing with the Pain of these Times

In every myth, the hero or heroine are called to look the monster straight in the eye and not turn to stone.

We need each other in ways that we never have before. Because All through human history there was this tacit assumption that life would continue on this planet. Oh yeah, there were wars, there was poverty, there was plague and pestilence and death of course and illness and old age and all that. But always there was this tacit assumption that life would continue. That the work of our hearts and hands would go on for future generations. And that’s what’s lost now. And that loss of certainty for the ongoingness of life is the pivotal psychological reality of our time. So my way of dealing with the overwhelm is to look it straight in the eye and and say, there you are again. To realize that we are suffering with our world. And not try to pave it over or apologize for it. And not see it as a personal weakness, a personal craziness. But almost to bow to it, you are suffering with your world. It’s the most natural thing in the world. It’s the most wholesome, healthy thing in the world too. Don’t be afraid of your heart breaking open.. The heart that breaks open can hold the whole universe. It’s that big. I want so much to feel sure. I want to be able to tell people don’t worry. It’s going to be okay. But I realize that that wouldn’t be doing anybody a favor. First of all, we can’t know. But secondly, if somehow, we could be given a pill to be convinced, don’t worry it’s going to turn out ok. Would that elicit from us our greatest creativity and courage. No. It’s that knife edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power. So we do ourselves the favor. We honor ourselves to live with sufficient realism and dignity to know we’re right with that knife edge of uncertainty. We don’t know how it’s going to come out. There are no guarantees. Then we realize, wait. There aren’t any guarantees anyway. There are no guarantees when you fall in love that you’re going to have a lasting relationship There are no guarantees when you go into l

Find out what a “green team” can be and what green teams can do.

[1:00] Where can you participate in or start a green team?

[1:30] What can green teams do?

[2:10] School green teams

[2:40] Faith communities

[3:05] Workplaces

[3:30] Neighborhoods

[4:10] Green teams can be driven by passions, skills and needs of each community

[4:30] Look for city or community program to help you

[4:50] You don’t have to go it alone!

List of activities for green teams:

School garden

Urban garden

Earth Day Festival

Energy audit

Keeping lights out when not in use

Bicycle repair workshop

Recycling or composting

Transportation initiatives

Pollinator gardens

Keeping cars from idling near buildings

Farmers market

Speaking at City Council meetings

Advocate for changing laws

Changing the pesticide use policy

Eco book club

Wildlife protection activities

Nature walks

Healthy, sustainable food

Urban farms

Give excess garden produce to the homeless

Tours of water-conserving landscaped homes

Tours of homes with solar energy

Use a city or community program to become a certified Green School, Business, Faith Community or Neighborhood.

 

What's in a name?

Green team, eco-club, climate action committee, sustainability team are all commonly used. Choose a name that fits your needs.

Discover how to launch and grow a green team in your community at www.GreenTeamAcademy.com. Suggest a topic, get the free Green Team Essentials including online community, avoidable mistakes guide and podcast discussion group at www.GreenTeamAcademy.com. If you like what you're hearing, please subscribe, rate and review! The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

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Welcome to the Green Team Academy Podcast with your host, Joan Gregerson, Author, Coach and Eco-Nut!

[0:55] Welcome

[1:15] My story: family, nature, engineering

[2:55] Fun and creativity of starting green teams

[3:35] Importance of developing emotional and spiritual strength to do this work

[4:05] Podcast format: daily 5-10 minute episodes

[4:40] More resources at GreenTeamAcademy.com

[4:55] You are my Green Team!

Quote: Remember the time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

Discover how to launch and grow a green team in your community. Suggest a topic, get the free Green Team Essentials at www.GreenTeamAcademy.com for access to our online community, the Podcast Discussion Group and to get your free guide of avoidable mistakes.

 

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Film is a powerful type of environmental education that can reach beyond the classroom and the trail. Join me for a discussion with Shawna Crocker, founder of the Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF). Hear how the festival was started, how you can participate this year and in the future, and how to emulate their success.

We're joined by Shiela DeForest, Mrs ECO-International and the founder of Golden Residents (and Friends) Eco-Action Team, one of the Exo-Expo exhibitors and an Eco-Champion Award Winner from the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge. 

This year’s Colorado Environmental Film Festival will be entirely virtual, which means you can now enjoy the best of the fest at home! Watch over 70 films, short and long, featuring environmental issues and solutions from around the world.

JOIN THE VIRTUAL FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 12 – 21, 2021 at www.ceff.net. 

April 17-24, 2021 Earth Week Summit

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August - December 2021 International Climate Action Challenge

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Green Team Academy

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If you're frustrated and disappointed with the lack of care and attention being shown to our planet and environment, then you're in the right place. Join your host Joan Gregerson for information and inspiration. Discover how to launch and grow a green team in your community.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this over in the Podcast Discussion Group. Get access through the FREE Green Team Essentials.

 

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Desperation is never a good look. 

You've probably had this experience many times. When you act needy, the exact thing that you've decided that you need so desperately continues to elude you.

Maybe we're all like those buds just below the surface, just so excited to pop! But unlike the buds who aren't rushing or feeling inadequate, it seems like there's a lot of anxiety right now about not having or not doing enough. 

This is something that I work to manage in my own life every day. 

In this week's Green Team Academy Podcast Live, I'll share my thoughts on how to:

• Handle the feeling that you need more time, money, or anything
• Discern the levels of having, doing, and being
• Consider the multiple forms of currency available in your life and your work
• Notice words that creep into our language that create the illusion of desperation
• Say no with gusto rather than guilt
• Switch the vibe from repel to attract
• Lean on nature for reminders on how to roll with grace
• Get clear about who or what you are working for so you can define success on your terms

This episode is a gentle reminder that you are already enough!

Climate Action Challenge
https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

Earth Week Summit
https://www.earthweeksummit.com

What is biochar? How can you use it? Should you make it yourself? How can it build community? Find out in my interview with Charmaster, Tony C. Saladino.

Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts - Stitcher, Apple, Google, Spotify

Tony C. Saladino is a Charmaster, Biochar Educator, Founder and Guide for ECO-Tours of Wisconsin, Inc. As a participant in the 2020 International Climate Challenge, he met his goal of creating his weight in char and turning that into over half a ton of biochar, enough to enrich a dozen 4X10 foot beds to a depth of six inches, forever! He also taught a dozen more biochar classes so that more people would be able to do the same, cheaply and efficiently.
https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

In 1987, Saladino rode his bicycle around all five Great Lakes, teaching people in person, through TV, radio and print publications how to live lightly on the planet and experience a higher quality of life at the same time. Over ten million residents of the Great Lakes Basin heard him speak or read about his trip.

Tony committed his life to "helping heal the rift between humankind and nature" as a child and has helped plant over 60,000 native trees and hundreds of thousands of native perennial food and medicinal plants across Northeast Wisconsin as an adult. He leads plant-ins, seed collection and dispersal tours, biochar classes, permaculture garden tours, canoe and bicycle trips across the region. He also advocates for the Earth Charter, www.earthcharter.org, which encourages people to utilize information from Environmental Working Group, www.ewg.org especially their Skin-Deep database of personal care products and their zip code specific water quality database.

The focus on the six steps required to make biochar will help people understand how-to double crop production, sequester carbon, protect water quality, reduce the need for irrigation and fertilization by half, all while providing a host of environmental benefits. He will help people decide if they are better served by making their own biochar or purchasing it and for those who decide to buy, how to tell if the char you are buying is worth the investment.

Six steps required to transform dry woody material into biochar:

• Make it by getting it to glow, without air
• Micronize it to bits 2mm or less.
• Moisten that material to as wet as a wrung-out sponge.
• Add Minerals
• Add Microbes
• Let it mature, stirring several times a day and keeping the moisture steady.

Saladino and his group, are currently working to secure funding for an 80-acre parcel that will not only serve as a home base for ECO-Tours but allow guests to come and learn the principles of sustainability by doing. In a living laboratory, that builds community through diversity. The property will only be available for Leave No Trace Camping and classes in and about nature which helps guests understand and create more sustainable lifestyles.

Support the new center via the GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/52fa3b77

Join me for an interview with special guest, Renee Millard Chacon. In this episode, we'll talk about defining environmental justice, and what it means to be an ally to or accomplice with the BIPOC community.

Renee Millard-Chacon is a writer, educator, Danzante Azteca, Xicana activist, and most importantly the mother of two sons. She is an indigenous womxn of Diné/Mexica descent, fighting for future generations and committed to relating climate justice to social justice. Her family is from the Denver community and she now works as a cultural educator and teacher. She works as the Youth Program Coordinator/ Cultural Educator at Spirit of the Sun and Co-founder of Womxn From the Mountain in hosting, organizing, and leading marches, workshops, and educational resources for social justice and environmental justice. She maintains her culture every day as a Sahumadora/Malinzin in Azteca Danza for Grupo ColorAztlan in Denver and Tlahuitzcalli in Boulder. Her goal now is to help in the circles she has the opportunity to engage in to move forward to heal through environmental awareness, transformative education, and support to diverse leaders ready to fight for future generations. She welcomes any respectful correspondence to start doing the tedious but powerful work of creating better relations in spaces that deserve to be healed because of the trauma from historical inequality and environmental racism.

If you have any questions about Spirit of the Sun programming, please email Renée at reneemchacon@spiritofthesun.org

Renee is working in Colorado to define environmental justice for legislation.

Renee worked with 350 Colorado, Conservation Colorado, Western Conservation, and many environmental organizations to address how womxn and children are often trafficked in these same areas affected by exploitative practices, such as fossil fuel development. In a collective effort with the International Indigenous Youth Council, they presented an art installation on 16th Street Mall in Denver to highlight Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn, Black Womxn, and Migrant Womxn by hanging red and black dresses individually dedicated to a womxn missing or deceased. During the strike with Greta Thunberg, they painted handprints over the mouths of hundreds of individuals to continue to bring attention to these silenced individuals.

Renee provides fee-based cultural and allyship trainings for groups and organizations.

Get ready for the 2021 International Climate Action Challenge! Register now for early bird pricing! Each purchase creates a scholarship for another person or team. 

Tired of being ineffective while watching the state of planet degrade before our very eyes? If you've tried bunches of others things to no avail, don't worry. It's not your fault.

Anyone can make an impact quickly, once they know how. This episode was recorded on January 6, with 106 days until Earth Day, April 22, 2021. That's plenty of time to make a difference.

Tune in to learn about the Weekly Action Plan Checklist from the Climate Action Challenge book and workbook. Find out about courses for challengers and communities. Get books, coaching, and courses at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop

Join me for a look at 2020! I'll take you on a ride through the ups and downs of life with the Green Team Academy. Find out how the Climate Action Challenge came to be and what our global community achieved, even during a pandemic. 

Books, courses, and coaching available in our shop at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop

Tune in to meet the award winners from the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge!

• Our Team https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/team 
• Mentors https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/mentors
• Challengers https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/challengers 

Find out what they did in the 90 days between Sep 1 and Nov 30, 2020.

Get support in making a huge eco-impact fast! Find the Climate Action Challenge book, workbook, courses and coaching at: https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop

Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/greenteamacademy

Get a quick overview of the schedule for the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge, with new special guests!

View the entire schedule here:

https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/schedule

Each year Americans grow a crop they mow but do not eat. Join Brigitte Mars & BethyLoveLight, Awake & Aware, to discover how to "Get Off Your Grass and Create an Edible Lawn".

Have you ever wondered how to get people to understand the problems with lawns and what to do instead? Herbalist, Brigitte Mars, and eco-conscious hip hop artist, BethyLoveLight, have been working on this very thing. Join us to learn about their videos, songs, books, and courses that demonstrate the absurdity of massive lawns and the healing power of dandelions and other herbs.

Articles:
Brigitte Mars, Huffington Post, Get Off Your Grass and Create an Edible Lawn
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/get-off-your-grass-and-cr_b_533359

Events:

• May 14: Light It Up Conscious Talk
• May 30: Herb Walk
• June 6: Bee In
• September: Ten Week Herbal Healing Course

Books:

• Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine, Brigitte Mars

Websites:

• Brigitte Mars: https://brigittemars.com/
• BethyLoveLight: https://bethylovelight.com/

Resources:

• People & Pollinators Action Network
• Bee City USA
• Nontoxic Communities

 

Upcoming Green Team Academy Event:
2021 International Climate Action Challenge
https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/challenge

We are excited to introduce you to the Climate Reality Chapters/Branches who are sponsoring the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge Impact Summit!

Meet Climate Reality Chapters:

• Eagle County, Colorado
• Atlanta, Georgia,
• Newark, Delaware
• San Antonio, Texas
• and Calgary Climate Hub

Learn what they are doing. Discover how they are making a difference and how to get involved!

The Impact Summit is Dec 13-17, 2020 and includes challenger interviews, happy hours, and next steps intensives. Register to attend the Dec 13-17 Impact Summit for free at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/summit.

Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/greenteamacademy

2020 International Climate Action Challenge Impact Summit

From September 1 to November 30, over 100 challengers took up the charge to make an impact...fast! Hear what they've achieved in the Impact Summit, December 13 - 17, 2020.

In this podcast, Joan gives a preview of the summit schedule and sponsorship opportunities. Learn more at www.climateactionchallenge.net

The Philippines is very low on the carbon emission scale and yet is one of the countries with the highest risk for experiencing issues from climate change. Tune in for my chat with Dann Diez, SEED4COM Founder, and CEO, to hear how they are responding and what all of us can do. 

Typhoons, flooding, solar lamps, and gardens

Let's talk issues and solutions with Dann Diez, founder of SEED4COM

- Responding to Typhoons Rolly & Ulysses with flooding at depths of 5 meters in the Luzon area

- With every disaster: energy access, food, and communications are issues

- With flooding, lots of plastic trash washes us. Looking to build housing from eco trash with eco bricks

- Partnering with Eagle Scouts to build solar lamps. These are built and repaired in the communities

The Philippines is one of the most at-risk countries from the climate crisis, though they are low on carbon emission output. https://www.amnesty.org.uk/philippines-country-most-risk-climate-crisis

As a mentor in the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge, Dann is working with Earth Fairies and Juan for Nature as part of the Philippines Food Gardens Movement

https://www.facebook.com/foodgardensmovementPH/

https://www.facebook.com/SEED4Com/photos/a.696199917083399/3470419182994778/

2020 International Climate Action Challenge https://www.climateactionchallenge.net 

Green Team Academy Podcast

https://greenteamacademy.com/99-dann-diez-climate-justice-philippines/

How can you create a sustainability nonprofit or a business, that is sustainable for you?

Many people run into the problem of creating a startup that ends up wearing them down, instead of energizing them. Tune in to my discussion with business and communications strategist, Ashlee Tate, to learn how to avoid the common mistakes, so you can create a life you’ll love.

Register for the Dec 13-17 Impact Summit at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/summit

Half of the earth’s shallow-water corals have disappeared in the past 30 years. The remaining half is at risk of disappearing in the next few decades. What can be done?

Tune in for my interview with Jolyon Collier to find out how Counting Coral uses coral sculptures to transform the relationship between communities and protect coral reefs.

https://www.countingcoral.com/

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Register for the Dec 13 - 17 Impact Summit

Meet the featured challengers from the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge and find out how you can make a big eco-impact fast!

https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/summit

 

We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction. Yet, biodiversity loss often fails to get as much attention as pollution, climate change, or other environmental issues.

What can be done to raise awareness? How can we prevent and reverse the collapse of ecosystems and restore biodiversity?

Tune in for a discussion with Derrick Mugisha, Earth Day Africa Director and Coordinator of the Uganda Biodiversity Youth Network.

Derrick shares findings from recent biodiversity reports and the big ideas in the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Discover how to take action with Restore Our Earth, the Earth Day 2021 theme.

2020 International Climate Action Challenge

Derrick is a mentor with the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge. Meet the mentors and challengers, and register for free to attend the Impact Summit at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

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Shaina Oliver is an Indigenous Peoples' Rights Advocate and Field Organizer Moms Clean Air Force In this live podcast episode, Shaina shares how you can make a difference by testifying at hearings and understanding what the different commissions are doing that impact air quality. This is an important way we can all work to improve conditions for less-affluent neighborhoods and communities of color.

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Take Action with Moms Clean Air Force at https://www.momscleanairforce.org/petitions/.

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Shaina Oliver, a tribal member of the Navajo Nation from Shiprock, New Mexico, is an advocate for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. In 2015, after the EPA’s toxic mine spill affecting the Animas and San Juan Rivers, which supply water to the Navajo Nation, Shaina became more aware that the environmental disasters that happen in Colorado—where she now lives with her husband and four boys—also impact her tribe’s well-being and future. Shaina began to feel her responsibility to do her part as a mother, aunt, sister, descendant, and survivor of genocide. Living in northeast Denver, Shaina is just south of the Suncor refinery. Sometimes she and her family can’t step outside for a breath of fresh air. On very cold days, her asthma flares, and she must be cautious and stay indoors. She worries about her youngest son, who has more allergies than his older brothers—allergies that may be asthma-related. Testifying with Moms Clean Air Force at EPA hearings and in support of environmental bills at the U.S. Capitol is one important way Shaina lives up to her responsibility to protect all living beings and secure a future for all children. https://www.momscleanairforce.org/state-chapters/colorado/

Should Denver residents vote yes on Proposition 2A: Climate Action Sales Tax?

Tune in for a discussion with Sebastian Andrews and Jasmin Barco to dig into the details. Climate Action Denver FAQ's https://climateactiondenver.com/faqs

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Background: In 2019, the Mayor of Denver created an Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, & Resiliency to prepare the city for the future. A Climate Action Task Force with 26 community representatives spent the first several months of 2020 gathering data and community feedback to create a Climate Action Plan for Denver. On the November ballot, 2A is a small sales tax increase in order to begin to fund the work that has been laid out in the plan to create a greener, more resilient city. Learn more about the report and the ballot initiative that will put Denver in a position to be a leader on climate issues. Support the podcast! Become a member on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/greenteamacademy

Think you can’t find the green career of your dreams during a pandemic? Think again!
Join me to hear from Lisa Yee-Litzenberg, Green Career Advisor. Lisa shares her insights as a green career coach and advice from job seekers who secured green jobs and internships during the pandemic.   Lisa will be sharing the tips from recent successful job seekers:
Where do you find jobs?
What got you hired?
How did you make yourself stand out from other candidates?
What sectors had the most green job opportunities?   View complete show notes at  https://greenteamacademy.com/095-find-a-green-job-during-challenging-times/   Resources:
Finding a Green Job During Challenging Times, Linked In, Lisa Yee-Litzenberghttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finding-green-job-during-challenging-times-lisa-yee-litzenberg-gcdf/
Green Career Advisor, LLChttp://www.greencareeradvisor.com/

What's one simple thing you can do to help heal the racial divide? Albert Kueffner shares his initiative to get more people talking with each other in this episode of the Green Team Academy Podcast Live.

 Hear how the idea is taking off in faith communities and opening up shared housing opportunities to benefit all.

Albert is a challenger and mentor with the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge. www.climateactionchallenge.net

Albert Kueffner is an avid eco-justice advocate member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, CA. From 2010 until COVID-19 he did outreach and recruitment for Western Service Workers in West Oakland, and played key roles in the successful Faith Against Fracking and No Coal in Oakland campaigns.

 

Tune in for an interview with Doug Good Feature to hear about his new book, Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World.

 

The book is a guide to integrating indigenous thinking into modern life for a more interconnected and spiritual relationship with our fellow beings, Mother Earth, and the natural ways of the universe.

This book's intention is not to teach you to "be Native American," but instead to use the indigenous culture of the Lakota to help you connect with your own indigenous roots and help you remember your ancestral knowing that all beings are divinely connected.

Get the book through Hay House.

About Doug
Doug Good Feather is a full-blooded Native American Lakota, born and raised in the traditional indigenous ways of his elders on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He is a direct descendant of Grandpa Chief Sitting Bull. He is the executive director and spiritual leader of the Lakota Way in Colorado and the co-founder of Spirit Horse Nation. You can visit Spirit Horse Nation online at spirithorsenation.org.

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2021 International Climate Action Challenge
Kicks off August 18, 2021
Join us and go from passion to action in 90 days! Get live trainings, weekly check-ins, book, workbook, portal and more. Find out more in our free Quick Start Training at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

 

Show notes

https://greenteamacademy.com/120-think-indigenous-doug-good-feather/

Grab a cup of tea and a snuggly blanket and join me for storytime! I wrote the book, Climate Action Challenge, as a love letter to you. So, sit back and let me read it to you... or at least the first couple of chapters.  Get the book and workbook at www.climateactionchallenge.net/book. Now available as ebook and paperback! Please leave a review and help others find it! https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Action.../dp/B086PG5B7W 

You've completed your Climate Reality training... now what?

Join us for a session with three Climate Reality Leaders who can help you get your first presentation off the ground!

• Jim Sandoe, Citizens Climate Lobby, Lancaster PA 
• Malika Yates, Climate Reality Chapter, Newark DE 
• Bill Keydel, Climate Reality Chapter, Denver/Boulder

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Have you wondered why you can't get people interested in your project? Are you not sure what to focus on first? Are you having a hard time even figuring out what your team is all about? Don't despair. There's hope. Enter... the Action Plan!

Find out more about the new book and workbook at www.climateactionchallenge.net

Wondering what it would be like to be able to chat with friends from around the world who are all working to launch their eco-initiatives in 90 days? Join me for a demo and training on the Climate Action Challenge Portal! Haven’t registered for the challenge yet?

Register at www.climateactionchallenge.net

Jim Sandoe and Max Sano of Citizens Climate Lobby Lancaster PA talk about resources for getting out the vote! Start a team as part of the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge.

See full show notes at https://www.greenteamacademy.com/podcast/087-get-out-the-environmental-vote/