In ending Season 4 of the Eco-Warriors Podcast, we wanted to bring you an update from the guests we spoke to during the early days of the show. We're so excited to bring you updates from Ecosia with Katharina Spethmann, Head of Social and Economic Sustainability. Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees. Using revenue from their ads engine and through investing in climate solutions with the launch of a 350 million euro venture capital fund, Ecosia aims to tackle issues around climate change. Katharina visits the locations where Ecosia funded tree projects exist and enlightens us on how Ecosia has built an app to track the trees and build economic viability for the people in these areas. 

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Being able to incentivize companies and businesses like Royal Sands and Corona to become more sustainable takes lots of small steps - from single-use plastic reduction to the installation of filtered water stations with refillable bottles. Creating a way to raise awareness and recognition for these efforts is one way that we can use our system for good. The Blue Standard by Oceanic Global was designed to help consult businesses through these changes and then award them for their work. We're joined by Cassia Patel, who has been a Program Director at Oceanic Global, for nearly 4 years to hear more.

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From melty fake cheese to cultured lab-grown meat, investigative journalist Larissa Zimberoff is researching and sampling her way through some of the most innovative food products on the market. Following a couple of bumps in her career and for her own health, Larissa decided to pursue an MFA in creative writing and start journeying her discovery of new and interesting food on the market. Larissa gives us her take of what the future of food looks like and the environmental impact of lab-grown meat and meat alternatives.

Check out Larissas book and blog Technically Food.

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If you're a conscious consumer, you'll relate to Sarah Sproviero's plight of the difficulties in purchasing products from companies that are kind to the environment, the people who make them, and you. After being frustrated with the lack of transparency and the immense amount of research that went into finding the best companies, Sarah started the Lightfoot Market.

The Lightfoot Market is dedicated to being a marketplace for conscious consumers and thoughtful brands to connect. They run bi-annual pop-up markets here in New York City and have a directory of carefully vetted brands they trust.

The next Lightfoot Market Holiday Pop-Up will be on Dec. 9-10th at the Metropolitan Suite in Chelsea, NY. We will be there selling the Trashy Beauty repurposed coffee body scrub. Come and say hi. We'll have a free treat for anyone who supports the podcast.

Sarah used to be an environmental teacher at the Audubon Society and credits playing outside and being close to nature as the reason she cares deeply about the environment today. There's a pretty hilarious story that Sarah shares from her teaching days, so you have to listen to the end when she reveals her party trick.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Bower Studios
• The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
• #stopsucking movement
• Rothy’s - click here for $20 off!
• Keap Candles
• Dopper Water Bottles
• Ecocult
• United by Blue

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The coolest part about being a scientist is getting to go to places where others are not allowed to go - literally! Franziska Elmer got to live on a remote atoll research center during her Ph.D and saw one of the most untouched eco-systems on the planet. The only other people who get to visit Palmyra are volunteers and millionaires who donate money to the Nature Conservancy.

Fran is also a huge believer in protecting the environment and underwent the Plastic-Free challenge while living on a desert island called Bonaire.

Geek out with us as we talk about Fran's career from studying ecology, living in New Zealand, and teaching students how to become marine biologists in the Caribbean.

Resources Fran mentions during this episode:

• Coral List
• Plastic Free tips
• Gate’s Coral Lab
• Seagrass Carbon Credit Offset

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New York City spends $1.3 billion a year on waste management and it's one of NYC's biggest exports, going to other states as far as Ohio. With a small, local movement to compost, NYC already has one of the country's largest compost programs.

How long do you think it takes for a head of lettuce to break down in a landfill?
The answer might shock you - 25 years. With the climate warming and our soils depleting, the answer to fixing some of the planet's greatest problems may come down to one behavioral change - compost. Meredith ties in trash, compost, and food nutrition in one jam-packed conversation.

And, listen to the very end, because Meredith turns the tables on me!

Meredith is extremely knowledgeable and inspiring to speak with. Her straightforward way of talking about the trash problem is great for anyone wanting to understand this issue better (and take action!). Connect with Common Ground Compost on their website, Facebook, and check out one of the events Meredith speaks at in NYC.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Hack Trash City
• New Dream
• Guppyfriend
• Good Brother Co
• Vokashi
• Rescuing Leftover Cuisine

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Locally made, minimal waste, upcycled trash - that's what Malaika has built her fashion line from. And if you saw it in a window in New York City, where Malaika lives, you would never know. Her high fashion, eco-conscious clothing line is beautifully minimal, made for all seasons, and built to last.

Malaika is from Denmark, where she was always told to care for the environment through simple actions. She's been to Bangladesh where she saw the rivers run blue from factory dyes. Check out her fashion line and connect with Malaika on Facebook and Instagram.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Zero Waste Daniel
• Jenny Mustard - Vegan Youtuber and blogger
• Sublime Magazine
• Sagekat
• EO Products
• Sustainable Fashion Directory

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Former New York City actress turned entrepreneur, Sharon started her journey in the late-80’s when she decided to do something about the wastefulness of plastic bags. She sold 1,000 bags at her first Earth Day festival and was featured on Oprah. She also recently wrote a book guiding others in the art of creating an intentional business.

A registered B Corp, Sharon’s business has diverted 2.65 trillion plastic bags from use. This is an episode not to be missed - Sharon has so many fantastic tips for balancing work and life, shares her highs and lows through building an intentional business, and has years of experience in green business to share.

Check out Sharon’s book, The Magic of Tiny Business, available for pre-order on Amazon. Connect with Sharon on Facebook, Instagram, and skip the single-use plastic at Eco-Bags Products.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Eco-Bags Products
• B Corporation
• The Magic of Tiny Business

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Cheryl Davies was living what she thought was a great life - working in the textile industry, living in New York City, car, boyfriend - but something was off. Today, Cheryl is a licensed acupuncturist, lives a minimal life from her bicycle, and partakes in dumpster diving with her partner Rob Greenfield (the guy who wore all his trash in a specially designed trash suit for 30 days).

She doesn't even have a cell phone plan, so this interview was conducted while Cheryl was at the public library in Vancouver, Canada after Cheryl, Rob, and a group of Green Riders biked from Central Park to Vancouver in less than 90 days. There is something magical in the way Cheryl has discovered a new life and career after the one she thought she wanted where she was working in the fashion industry.

Cheryl proves that any amount of change is possible if you start small. Connect with Cheryl on Facebook, Instagram, and Acurhythms, the business she co-founded.

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Resources mentioned in this show:

• Rob Greenfield

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Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees. They use over 80 percent of their profits to fund reforestation work all over the world using money made from ad revenue. Their goal - plant 1 billion trees by 2020. The company now plants trees in Burkina Faso, Indonesia (Borneo), Madagascar, Nicaragua, Peru, and Tanzania.

Ecosia wants to create a world where the environment no longer needs protecting, and with averaging 1 million trees every few weeks. Jacey Bingler is Ecosia's Head of Communications. She tells us about her former jobs working in advertising and how she happily transitioned to a job at Ecosia, working to spread the message of tree planting and helping to reverse climate change.

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Resources mentioned in this show:

• Naomi Klein
• Jane Goodall
• Elizabeth Kolbert
• Tomorrow

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We highly encourage you to try out Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees. Ecosia lets you take one small step to making the planet a greener place by doing something that you do every day - search the web.

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Eco-Warrior and Founder of Trashy Beauty, Barbara Lee, went from pre-law in undergrad to traveling the world for 2.5 years. After being a barista in New Zealand, planting trees in the Caribbean, and working communications for a conservation project in Kenya, Barbara returned home to the US and ended up working as a recruiter at a tech startup in New York City.

Faced with the immensity of the trash problem in NYC, in comical contrast to her former home city San Francisco, Barbara wanted to find a way to change the tide on the way people thought about trash.

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Today is America Recycles Day! Did you know that 42% of Americans don’t have a convenient way to recycle. Recyclops is looking to change that by crowd-sourcing the means for folks in communities without curbside recycle to get their recycling to a nearby center. While recycling isn't the end-all-be-all for sustainability solutions, recycling is part of the solution for ensure we are using our planet's resources wisely, especially when it comes to materials like glass that can be infinitely recycled. Paula shares how she got into this line of work after spending time as a SCUBA instructor.

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Laura Zapata is the CEO and Co-Founder of Clearloop, a company that helps businesses of any size reduce their carbon footprint by building clean energy infrastructure for projects on the grid. Laura’s goal is to make coal-powered grids a thing of the past - she’s doing this through carbon credits funded by companies who want to reduce their environmental impact. In this inspiring episode, learn about Laura’s unique approach to cleaning up our energy sources.

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Suma Reddy is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Future Acres. Previously, Suma has done everything from work at a microfinance company to build a company called FarmShelf that helped bring herbs and microgreens to restaurants and kitchens like Just Salad. Through this conversation, Suma walks us through her many years of working on different entrepreneurial ventures in building solutions that bring technology to environmental problems.

• NYTimes article: “Worker injuries tied to heat are vastly undercounted.”

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Imagine one day, instead of tossing your containers into a trash bin, you put them in a bin to be washed and reused by the brands you know and love. We're bringing back TerraCycle's Loop project to Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors to chat about how they're working towards a vision of that future! In this conversation with Lindsey Casella, Director of Global Marketing, we hear about what Loop has been up to in the two years since our conversation with TerraCycle's Founder, Tom Szaky. Lindsey dives in on why reusables are the solution to single-use disposables and how Loop is pushing forward with innovative packaging. At the end, Lindsey tells us how many days it's been since she bought new clothes - spoiler alert, it's a lot! 

We're hosting a giveaway on Instagram! Head over to our account to enter for a chance to win a boxed card set from Kate Gaertner, refillable beauty products from Plaine Products, and a Bluewater bento and spork from Ecolunchbox! Special thanks to our sponsors.

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“I don’t think there’s anything more meaningful than trying to mitigate climate change.”

Kate Gaertner is a Corporate Sustainability Consultant who works with name brands, like Nike and L’Oréal, to help reduce the impact their business practices and products create on the planet. Tangentially, Kate is helping to make the processes and manufacturing systems businesses use today more green. From her start in building a sustainable women’s athletic-clothing company in Brooklyn to living abroad in the Netherlands, Kate sparked with inspiration to pursue a career that would help her change entire systems in global manufacturing through her company TripleWin Advisory.

EU Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Laws

Tier Emissions Standards

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“Luxury is being able to say I have this designer bag that is made with a new revolutionary material and I want to show the world that I’m living my values.”

Sophia Wang met her Co-Founder Phil Ross while she was completing her Ph.D in Writing. While the two were in San Francisco and collaborated on different projects, Sophia encountered the mind-blowing capabilities of mycelium, the inter-woven fibers that form the root system of what we are more familiar with - mushrooms. Today, Mycoworks is creating Fine Mycelium™ fabric that is biodegradable and can be used in luxury fashion. Their first material, Reishi™ Fine Mycelium, will be featured in a collaboration with Hermés. 

Check out Mycoworks on Instagram and follow them on the news.

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We’re back with Season 4 of The Eco-Warriors Podcast. This season, we’ll be diving deep on Visionaries and the Future. We’re getting into the nitty gritty. There are no questions off limits this season. And for the next 12 episodes, we want to answer this one question… WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET TO A FULLY SUSTAINABLE FUTURE?

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Small Act of Green Rebellion: Eat imperfect products.

More than 40% of food grown is not eaten and all that food turns into CO2 in landfills. If food waste was a country it would be the third worst contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, only trailing behind the US and China. Imperfect Foods is looking to remove the not-so-perfect produce and foods from the waste stream and bring them to consumers at a fraction of the price.

Madeline Rotman, Head of Sustainability at Imperfect Foods, talks to us about how the company has pivoted during COVID and tells us what her favorite product is to order every month (it's my new fav as well). Check out their blog, The Whole Carrot, as well as their podcast, Unwasted, for more tips on how to reduce food waste in your home.

Just for listeners of Trash Talking, use promo code `ECOWARRIORS` for 30% off your first order from Imperfect Foods. 

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to myclimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Offset your carbon footprint every year.

Kathrin Dellantonio is the Head of Corporate Partnerships at MyClimate, a non-profit company with programs to reduce the carbon footprint of businesses and individuals though carbon offset programs and projects that help to remove carbon from the atmosphere, like planting mangroves. To date, more than 80 billion tons of CO2 has been removed from the atmosphere through myclimate's programs.

We're happy to be partnering with an amazing organization and helping to support their work to reduce CO2 emissions across the globe. Consider offsetting your carbon footprint this year by using a simple carbon calculator.

SPOILER ALERT! We'll be releasing a bonus episode next week with the Head of Sustainability at Imperfect Foods next week! It's our very last episode but we wanted to highlight a fun holiday gift idea from them - the gift of less food waste!

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

In her Design Class, Qiting Fang was challenged to come up for a solution to food waste. The problem she thought to pursue was figuring out a useful solution to all of the tea that is drank in her homeland China. The solution: tea desiccants. Desiccants are those little packets, usually filled with silicone gel beads, that are put into products to help absorb moisture and prevent and damage to the product cause by moisture. You've probably not thought a lot about desiccants but they are ubiquitous in the food and drug industry and makes up a multi-million dollar industry.

Although Ting's solution was not brought into fruition, the idea of utilizing what we think of as waste to close the loop on everything we use in manufacturing and food production is an incredibly important one.

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Small Act of Green Rebellion: Wear clothes that help to close the loop.

From the most supported clothing launch on Kickstarter to using coffee grounds in their hoodies and socks, Coalatree has created a brand that thinks as much about durability as they do about sustainability. JM Fabrizi, Director of Brand Development, joins us to chat about how the brand has successfully launched several products on Kickstarter, from the Kachula Blanket to the Trailhead Pants. Their evolution hoodies is made out of a  fabric, developed in Taiwan and Bluesign certified, that has helped to remove over 140,000 plastic bottles and 82,000 cups of coffee grounds from the waste stream so far.

Visit Coalatree on Instagram and Twitter to see more. You can also check out their current Kickstarter for a self-healing windbreaker (I'm not kidding).

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Stop using single-use plastics.

Sierra Brodleit always grew up with sustainably minded parents. When she graduated from college, she knew she wanted to be at a company that aligned with her values. What started as an internship at a small company based in Chico, California turned out to be Sierra's only job that she's had since college.

ChicoBags produces solutions for stopping the use of single-waste everything - plastic bags, snack bags, masks, bottles - you name it. And when your ChicoBag is at the end of its life, you can send it back and the company will recycle the materials on your behalf. Click here to watch the Bag Monster running through the streets of San Francisco and about how ChicoBags was sued by the top three producers in the plastics industry.

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Live off-grid.

Fran Whitlock is the Communications Manager of Global Ecovillage Network Europe. She tells us about her journey of going from working in climate policy in London to living in a rural community in Northern Spain where she lives with thirty or so other likeminded individuals. These communities are just one of the many ways that people are reducing their impact on the planet and opting for a lifestyle that is more environmentally conscious.

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Buy sustainable gifts.

More than 63% of American adults drink coffee and about 500 billion cups are consumed each year. Since coffee grows near the equator, that is a pretty big impact as a whole industry. Anu Menon started Driftaway Coffee with her husband, Suyog, as a way of building a company that they could both be passionate working on. A couple years in, they realized that in order to really love what they were building, they had to think of the sustainability of their company and products. Now, Driftaway Coffee is a subscription coffee company that uses fully compostable packaging and pricing transparency as part of their business practices.

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Find your green community.

Jordana Vasquez is an architect turned sustainability and energy consultant. Following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, Jordana decided to use her skills to help protect vulnerable communities with sustainable building practices. Around the same time, Jordana met her co-founder, Chante Harris, at an event where the two were the only BIPOC women in attendance. What sprang from their chance meeting was an organization, the Women of Color Collective in Sustainability (WOCCS), that helps to connect women of color in the sustainability space. Jordana has also been featured on the United Nations' blog and a Coordinator for the Global Youth Leadership Institute. 

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Use paper (instead of plastic) to pick up your dog's poop.

After 8 years of picking up her dog's poop with plastic bags, Tracy Rosensteel decided to do something about finding a greener alternative to the "biodegradable" bags on the market (which are still made of plastic). What she ended up creating is Pooch Paper, a recycled, non-bleach alternative to plastic poop bags. Pooch Paper has since been picked up by Shark Tank and can be found in big box stores like Target and Chewy.

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Make green news go viral.

Lucy Biggers started out her career as a video producer at NowThis covering stories like Standing Rock and micro plastics in your face wash. What started as an interest in technology and following the stories of passionate players in the sustainability field has turned into a full-on environmental niche for Lucy. Her Standing Rock videos have collected over 9 million views and President Obama mentioned that media attention is one of the reasons why he blocked the pipeline. It seems that viral videos and sharing stories online can actually make a difference.

We encourage everyone to go out and exercise their right to vote.

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Buy carbon neutral or local products.

Danielle Doggett took her love of sailing and nature to build a company that will sail products from Costa Rica up the Pacific in a carbon neutral vessel. The shipping cargo industry pollutes more than the 6th most polluted country in the world and 10,000 containers are lost at sea every year (check out this article about the rubber ducks lost at sea). This means a hefty impact on our planet for up to 90% of the goods that we own. SAILCARGO is hoping to change that and help reduce our impact on the planet with carbon neutral shipping.

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Plant a guerrilla garden.

After learning about a movement called Guerrilla Gardening in London, Vanessa Harden, Founder of The Subversive Gardener started her own city-wide project here in New York City. By planting flowers and vegetable gardens in public spaces, guerrilla gardeners are partaking in a fun and sustainable act of green rebellion. 

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Small Act of Green Rebellion: Use green geothermal energy to heat/cool your home.

Kathy Hunnan was working at Google X, Alphabet's moonshot division, as an entry-level marketer when she got involved with a solution for heating and cooling individual homes - using geothermal energy. From there, Kathy spun off the company as her own startup and has been focused on making green heating and cooling systems affordable for all. 

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

Following a stint on an integrated farm, Anna Sacks changed her career from investment banking to working on helping to solve our economy's big waste problems - products that are like new are thrown out by business to make room for more products. Anna posts on social as @thetrashwalker and shares her finds. Some of what we talk about may be incredibly shocking and not for the faint of heart. Anna has found items from pads to live animals that have been "discarded" by various big box businesses. The point that Anna makes is that we should stop over producing and find ways to direct "waste" to different places they can be used.

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Small Act of Green Rebellion: Donate your hair to clean up oil spills.

Lisa Gautier, Founder and President of Matter of Trust, tells us about how hair, textiles and fur can be used to help soak up oil before it ever reaches the ocean. Since 1999, Matter of Trust has been making hair mats that are used in industrial settings and to help remove oil from the environment. These hair mats are then broken down by worms into usable compost, so it's completely green and renewable. 

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Their shampoos, conditioners, and body products are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet. Get 20% off your first order by using the link above or entering promo code TRASHY20.

All proceeds from ads and sponsors for Season 3 will be donated to MyClimate, the leading provider of CO2 offsets and carbon offsetting consulting. By listening, sharing and supporting this podcast, you're also taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

It’s 2020. Your local compost program has been canceled due to COVID. Shops are using single-use plastic in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus. Grocery stores are denying your reusable bags. Forget reusable cups at your local coffeeshop. And everyone is home, producing more disposable waste and individually trying to cool down their apartments during the hot summer.

For all of us eco-warriors, this year could not be a bigger climate disaster. And as the worst fires rage on the western coast and the southern coast is bombarded with hurricanes and tropical storms, we sit at home and wonder - WHAT CAN I DO?

Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is all about fighting the green fight. Doing those small things that can turn into a wave, a movement, your win against the war. So if you’re tired of the status quo and staying at home doing NOTHING, this is it. Start small, start today. We’ll be giving you tips from leaders in the green movement who’ll share how you can contribute your small act in this green rebellion.

Rise up, Green Rebels.

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Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products. Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal care company that uses re-fillable aluminum bottles. Plaine Products shampoos, soaps and oils are toxin-free and vegan so they’re good for you and good for the planet.

Visit the link in the show notes or go to PlaineProducts.com and use promo code TRASHY20 for 20 percent off your first order of zero waste shampoos, conditioner and hand sanitizer.

Just for Season 3, all proceeds earned through this affiliate link and from advertisements will be donated directly to The Ocean Foundation’s Seagrass Grow project. Planting and protecting coastal wetlands and helping individuals reduce their carbon footprint. By sharing this podcast to your friends and network, you’ll be multiplying your work in the fight against climate change. So listen, share and rate this podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

“So many people climb the ladder of success only to find it was against the wrong wall.”

Wendy Hapgood is the Co-Founder and COO of Wild Tomorrow Fund. She was working in electrical engineering in Australia when she decided she was following the wrong path in life. Now, Wendy and her husband run a project based out of New York and South Africa that focuses on restoration and wildlife protection in a small parcel of land that is a wildlife corridor. They recently started a program called The Green Mambas, a group of 14 women from Zululand who Wendy helping become self-sustaining stewards of this land.

Follow Wild Tomorrow Fund on Instagram and check out their page to take action.

This is our last episode of Season Two. Join us again in 2020 for Season Three!

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There are 3 days left back the Wally Shop project so they can launch grocery delivery across the nation. Pledge here.

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Whale poop. That was how Asha de Vos, the first and only Sri Lankan to hold a PhD in Marine Mammal research, made her first big discovery - that Sri Lanka was home to a unique population of blue whales that did not follow textbook migratory patterns. Since her first discovery, Dr. de Vos has made it her personal mission to bring marine research to her home country in a pursuit of ensuring equal opportunity education for those in developing countries. In this episode, Dr. de Vos dives deep into what she had to overcome to pursue what she loved.

Follow Asha and Oceanswell on social.

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Fund the change. The Wally Shop just kicked off a Kickstarter campaign to launch package free grocery delivery across the entire country. We kicked off Season Two with Tamara’s inspiring story (go back and give it a listen!) and it was actually my desire to share this story that made me relaunch the podcast. I've made my pledge and hope you will too.

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Ramona Barnes was born in Thailand where she spent her childhood playing on the beach. When she became a mother, she dedicated her life to a natural lifestyle but she was frustrated by the solutions for zero waste that weren't designed the way she wanted. So Ramona started her own zero waste lifestyle line called Orez, which is zero spelled backwards. This live recorded episode finds us going through Ramona's journey to creating beautiful zero waste solutions.

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Every piece of plastic ever created still exists on this planet. After seeing the effects of plastic in our environment firsthand while working in environmental education out in the Bahamas, Lindsey McCoy decided it was time to do something about the plastic in her household. Together with her sister, Lindsey started Plaine Products, a vegan, zero-waste circular hair and body beauty company based out of Cincinnati, OH. Since launching in 2017, Planie Products has already helped to divert 100,000 plastic bottles from landfill.

Get your green haircare on point and use promo code TRASHY20 for 20% off your first order on this line of refillable shampoos, face wash and lotions. Follow Plaine Products on Instagram.

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From winning a contest with her modular outerwear collection. Carmen Gama landed a one-year fellowship to work at Eileen Fisher’s Renew program. Her mission, to figure out something to do with the 35% of 1.3 million garments that have been sent back over the years through the company’s Renew program. Carmen tells us about how she build a program for textile reclamation and helped figure out a circular design for beloved pieces.

If you’re in the NYC area, there’s an opportunity for you to meet Carmen in person this week! On Thursday, Oct. 10th from 6-8 PM at Eileen Fisher Brooklyn at 47 Bergen Street, Carmen will be speaking on a panel about circular design. Check out the events on the Eileen Fisher website to find out where to shop the Resewn and Renew collection.

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From Eataly to Google, CEO Christina Grace's company Foodprint has been asked to help take some of the biggest companies to zero waste. What is a Foodprint, you ask? Your foodprint is the result of everything that it takes to get food to your plate, including the effect your food has on the farmers who make it, the land where it’s grown and the animals who are part of it.

Mentioned in this episode:

• ReFED
• RISE Rockaway

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Amber English, Co-Founder of Pixie Cup, grew up in the midwest where she never had curb-side recycling. When she went to live in South Korea, where they recycle everything, Amber realized the importance of reducing her impact on the planet through reducing waste. Amber started Pixie Cup with her brother and they now sell reusable silicone menstrual cups that are better for both women and the environment. They also have a give back program where a cup is donated when one is purchased. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Cost of a period
• Clue App

Find Pixie Cups here or on social.

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Join us for an end of summer beach clean up with Rockaway Waterfront Alliance on Saturday, September 14th from 11-1 PM EST. Sign up here and come pick up trash with us!

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The Rockaway waterfront South of Manhattan was an area prone to illegal dumping and destruction. Through activating the youth in the area, Jeanne Dupont has been able to help protect this land and allow the local youth to connect with it as well. Jeanne founded Rockaway Waterfront Alliance 15 years ago and has run the center as the Executive Director ever since. From a background in fashion and costume design, Jeanne has made nature her stage.

Join us for an end of summer beach clean up on Saturday, September 14th from 11-1 PM EST. Sign up here. Hope to see you there!

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After a near-death accident, Anastasia Allison quit her job as a railroad police officer and created her own company, Kula Cloth. Kula Cloth are reusable pee cloths that are functional and environmentally friendly for anyone who spends time on the trails or wants to find an alternative to toilet paper. As strange as they sound, they’re incredibly utilitarian and hygienic for the wilderness and leaving no trace behind.

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Leftovers from your office party? Replate has a solution for you.

Utilizing paid workers, Replate gives companies a way to connect their leftover food with non-profits that are helping to combat food insecurity. Katie Marchini, COO of Replate, shares with us how the company utilizes Project DASH (DoorDash's philanthropic arm) to establish new markets and just how much water is saved through the 2 million pounds of food they helped divert from landfill.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Darby Hoover at NRDC
• Food Recovery Hierarchy
• Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act 1996

If you need Replate for your office, check them out here.

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Tal Chitayat, Co-Founder and CEO of Full Circle Home, and his partners founded their company because they believe consumers should have a sustainable option for everything - even for something as mundane as a dish sponge. Tal shares what it was like to grow a sustainability company after the 2008 economic crash, landing and then failing to sell products at Target, to the sponge problem at the New York City Marathon and Full Circle Home's seemingly quirky sponsorship of this year’s race.

If you're interested in filling your home in some wonderful products with fun, quirky names like the Soap Opera Dish Soap Dispenser and Fun Guy mushroom cleaner, use code 'sustainable20' for 20% off your entire purchase of Full Circle Home products. 

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Martyna Sztaba is a quintessential self-made millennial founder - she started her first company when she was 19 and her previous careers include being in publishing. When her fellow co-founders of Syntoil wanted to take the company to the next level, they asked Martyna to come on as CEO. Why Martyna took a job in an industry she knew nothing about and what the heck is carbon black? Listen in to hear how Syntoil is changing the tire industry and why a revolution in this hidden industry is so important.

• Kuwait Tire Graveyard
• MUDA Talks - Martyna's podcast

Follow Martyna on Instagram.

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After working for the Social Responsibility Department at Converse and changing to a vegan diet, Florencia Gallino started dreaming of how she could make a bigger impact on the planet. What started as an idea to start a vegan restaurant became a rooftop farming initiative that is now in Mexico City and Argentina. This became Sitopia, an urban farming initiative for educating people about sustainable urban farm systems.

PRIVATE TOUR OF BROOKLYN GRANGE NEXT WEEK ON JULY 11TH

If you're interested in seeing the working Brooklyn Grange farm complete with sustainable drinks and bites by Proud Pour, Nomad Trading Co., Food For All and The Wally Shop, join us for a rooftop farm tour specially for Trash Talking listeners. Tickets are limited.

Check out Sitopia on Facebook and Instagram.

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Links from the show:

• TedTalk on Food Systems
• Hombres de Maíz, Guanajuato
• Las Cañadas, Veracruz

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Imagine going to work everyday on a 1.2 acre farm in the heart of New York City, with beautiful views and fresh produce daily. For Michele Kaufman and her colleagues, this is their every day routine at Brooklyn Grange, an urban farm with 3 locations, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Long Island City and Sunset Park. Michele explains how awe-inspiring it is to get your hands dirty at Brooklyn Grange and all of the amazing green rooftops around NYC that have been created by this group.

WE'RE HAVING A TRASH TALKING MEETUP @ BROOKLYN GRANGE

If you're interested in seeing the working Brooklyn Grange farm complete with sustainable drinks and bites, join us for a private tour just for listeners of Trash Talking. Tickets are limited and on sale now. 

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Yvanna Lacémon was traveling the world when she realized that she wanted to start her own project to help the environment. We lived together at a surf camp in Ecuador and after seeing my own reusable water bottle, Yvanna decided this was an easy way to get people in her native France to change their habits. With that, Yvanna founded Oaï (pronounced why), a company that produces and sells insulated stainless steel bottles in France and neighboring countries in Europe. Having worked in the music industry for years, Yvanna focused on aligning with artists like Patrice and selling her bottles to companies like LiveNation, who can help influence and change an industry laden in plastic usage.

This episode was recorded live in Paris, France just outside Garé Montparnasse the weekend of the Good Planet Foundation Festival of Change. 

Check out Oaï on Instagram.

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Imagine if your experience of going to get your shopping done each week was meeting up friends, educating yourself and building community with others. That was exactly what Flavie Morin envisioned when she opened up the bulk store, La Récolte, in Quebec City. While working as a server and running her business on the side, Flavie turned her vision of sharing zero waste living in her hometown into a reality. La Récolte now has two locations and hosts a number of events to give others the opportunity to share and learn about sustainable living. If you understand French, check out their website. If you don't, check out Facebook or Instagram.

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