[00:00:00] Corinne Foxx: Welcome back to another episode of Am I Doing This Right? I'm Corinne Foxx.
[00:00:09] Natalie McMillan: And I'm Natalie McMillan.
[00:00:21] Corinne Foxx: And we are best friends, confidant, millennials, and the hosts of Am I Doing This Right? A life how to podcast from the perspective of non-experts.
[00:00:25] Natalie McMillan: And each week we cover a new topic and we pop open a new bottle of wine.
Ooh, why should get a little song?
And this week, we are talking how to be more eco-friendly and easy things you can do in your every day life to save our little planet, this little planet after this huge, massive rock were right on that we just
happened to be floating in space on, yes,
[00:00:45] Corinne Foxx: we're going to be talking about simple, simple ways to live a more sustainable life.
How the fashion, beauty and food industries affect our planet. And what is eco anxiety? What is that I'm excited to dig in and meet you. And at the end of the episode, we're going to be playing 200 questions. No, we're not answering her questions. We're just answering a fun little question. That's a little off topic.
So stick around because that's always a good time is a good time. But first Nat, what winery
[00:01:14] Natalie McMillan: drinking. We are drinking the Tablas Creek vineyard. Now this is where I'm. Patel into tablets. What? I did not know what this P Patel P a T E L I N. I don't know what that is, but it's a red bull. And it's from Pasa Robles.
Okay. So it is a California wine and it's just, it's just a good old blend. But what Patel into tablets means, I don't know. Sounds like the name of like the little geeky kid at your school, but Delane put the analyser
[00:01:53] Corinne Foxx: my school in your school at a school, like the little nerd kid. Oh, that's the
[00:02:00] Natalie McMillan: fucking. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I am following. You're balling. Wow.
[00:02:08] Corinne Foxx: It's a lot. It's been a long day. We're recording a little bit later than we normally do. And so we're just, you know, we're feeling
[00:02:14] Natalie McMillan: it, feeling it, but we're here because we
[00:02:17] Corinne Foxx: love you guys.
We do, we do. Skin into how to protect our little planet and why we chose this topic.
[00:02:26] Natalie McMillan: Yeah. I feel like the first time I remember climate change, but back then it was global warming. Remember it was always global warming. I remember the first time I was in kindergarten because we were being taught about recycling and composting
[00:02:40] Corinne Foxx: reduce, reuse, recycle.
Is that what's that from, was that a school house? Rock? No. Yeah. Reduce, reuse, recycle thing was on. That
[00:02:52] Natalie McMillan: was a push cam, that big campaign. And I just remember my teachers being like, yeah, the environment's a little bit in trouble and, you know, fast forward to now and a little
[00:03:03] Corinne Foxx: bit in trouble. Talk
[00:03:04] Natalie McMillan: about a lot of it in trouble.
Also. I feel like back in the day, the huge emphasis was that. Ruining the rainforest. Yeah,
[00:03:10] Corinne Foxx: the rainforest was a big thing. Rain
[00:03:13] Natalie McMillan: forest thing,
[00:03:14] Corinne Foxx: you know, my mom say my mom was never really into like environmental measures, but then she took my little sister on her. This was public school for you on her field trip to the dump, the local dump.
And it's private school. You don't go to the
[00:03:29] Natalie McMillan: public school. We hit
[00:03:31] Corinne Foxx: the dump. You go to the dump. And my mom was like, my eyes were, I will never forget it. Like seeing all of the trash and all these things that like, could be recycled. Yeah. My mom is a stickler on recycling, like for her, if I go to her house and like drink a can of soda and put it in the trash, she literally pulls it out and goes, who did this?
Oh, good for Connie. And she loves to take her little recycling to the little center and she gets like $12 and she puts her, oh, wow. So that's what she fuels her car that emits CO2 recycling money. Hey, you know what? Carbon
[00:04:05] Natalie McMillan: neutral. Hey, she's offsetting. She's offsetting, but Hey, you know what? She is doing one, it's all about these little steps that we can take, right.
Because we can't be. We can't be perfect, but we got to try because unfortunately we're at the we're at the point where we can't, we can't simply just recycle anymore. Oh, what's her name? The little girl Gretta Gretta. Can you do the impression. Oh,
[00:04:29] Corinne Foxx: God, I was so I guys,
[00:04:30] Natalie McMillan: I believable,
[00:04:33] Corinne Foxx: but that's when she was like, I feel like I haven't seen her recently, but I had this Gretta whatever impression that was.
It was very
[00:04:41] Natalie McMillan: good. It was Oscar worthy. I wish I had it on later,
[00:04:45] Corinne Foxx: but I will never play her. I
[00:04:46] Natalie McMillan: don't know why it's because we were also drunk when I showed it to your hammer. No, but we were at the 1975 show and they had this whole thing where she was like speaking. Yes, Corrine's crying as she speaks. And we do have a video that I'm going fuck and Koreans, but then in the car on the way home, I'm
[00:05:06] Corinne Foxx: doing my granddad and Broadway
[00:05:07] Natalie McMillan: and it was very good.
I was blown away that Uber driver, he got a show because that w I would have paid money to see that it was incredible. Thank you.
[00:05:17] Corinne Foxx: Thank you. Um, I've definitely lost it, but you know, this is super important because last year I report releasing. Scientists at the UN described our current climate as code red for humanity.
That great.
[00:05:33] Natalie McMillan: That does not sound very
[00:05:34] Corinne Foxx: fun. So while it is an extremely grim and alarming report, we feel like millennials and gen Z in particular, we love gen Z. We really always been very aware of the danger we're in and have always been looking for ways to help combat it. In fact, a recent survey done by the United nations development program in conjunction with Oxford university.
I mean,
[00:05:57] Natalie McMillan: legit, legit,
[00:05:59] Corinne Foxx: too legit to quit, which included over half a million, 14 to 18 year olds over 50 different countries. Suggest people are in favor of policy changes to boost renewable power and sustainable
[00:06:11] Natalie McMillan: jobs. Wow.
[00:06:13] Corinne Foxx: Everybody's on board. It's going to save the world. Really? I think millennials, we kind of started and then we kind of, what, where the fuck are we at now?
Well, it's really in gen Z's hands
[00:06:20] Natalie McMillan: problem is. We're at the end of the rope, you have no choice, right?
yeah, it's perfect. Which brings us to our next point, which is eco anxiety. Oh yeah. So this is a real thing and it is being overwhelmed by the magnitude of the issue and mindful of your position as just one person on a planet of billions. So a lot of people feel really powerless when it comes to the climate crisis.
Which has led to the phenomenon of eco anxiety. I will say that I think
[00:06:55] Corinne Foxx: that's been a barrier for, I am a sustainable in certain ways, but I do think the justification when I'm not being sustainable, is that like, what the fuck can I do anyway? Right. It feels he does. It really does. It's very
[00:07:07] Natalie McMillan: like helpless, like, okay.
So I'm just going to do this alone, like, ah, so psychology today. They describe eco anxiety as a fairly recent psychological disorder afflicting and increasing number of individuals who worry about. The environmental crisis, the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, which is the guide mental health professionals use to make diagnosis is here in the United States.
They don't include eco anxiety as a specific condition yet, but the American. Psychological association produced the 2017 report detailing the impacts of climate change on mental health, which made a reference to the term eco anxiety. And the glossary describes it as a chronic fear of environmental.
[00:07:53] Corinne Foxx: Do you know?
That will change because I bet you eco anxiety is more gen Z. Cause it affects them more where like right now they're just still coming up, but I bet you. I get older. That will become
[00:08:06] Natalie McMillan: definitely
[00:08:08] Corinne Foxx: I know the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders already classified gaming as an addiction.
Oh, wow. Yeah. There's gaming addictions now. And I bet you just, like, as that age group gets older, this will be included as well,
[00:08:22] Natalie McMillan: a hundred percent because it is super real. So really our number one tip here. Just don't beat yourself up, you know, the fate of the planet. It doesn't lie solely in your hands, even though sometimes it might be.
Like it does.
[00:08:35] Corinne Foxx: And little changes here and there can make you feel empowered. Like, okay, stop. Yes. At least we're doing something. Yeah. And let's start in your home. Some interesting facts is that 20% of all us emissions are directly contributed to household consumption. Oh, wow. Yeah. And the average us household produces 7.5 tons of CO2 equivalent per year.
Jeez, but there are some things you can do. Just like, again, these are simple, these are small, but they will make you feel more empowered and they do make a difference. One of them being to change your light bulbs to led. So take a moment today to make sure your home is using all led light bulbs. I don't think I am.
And I think you could definitely ever make sure I'm not sure. Yeah. LEDs typically use about 75% less energy than traditional. Incandescents and can last at least 35 times longer. They may seem incidental in helping people transition to clean energy, but at least it's a solution that's bred.
[00:09:39] Natalie McMillan: Also, I will say the led thing. Cause I know it's like the led, sometimes it looks like you're in a classroom like that fluorescent
[00:09:46] Corinne Foxx: little. They have them now that her like warm, like more cozy, it's not, they've
[00:09:51] Natalie McMillan: improved them to look like just regular light
[00:09:53] Corinne Foxx: bulb. Yeah, for sure. For sure. I switched to a reusable water bottle, which I think in LA, a lot of people have, but maybe, I don't know, maybe you don't have one.
Despite recent images of oceans, brimming with plastics and Marine life washed ashore, American still use an average of 50 billion plastic water bottles a year. My God. Yeah. And while recycling has become part of the modern lifestyle, a unsettling fact remains 91% of plastic is not recycled one night. W
[00:10:27] Natalie McMillan: what is 91?
Is that what you said? 91.
[00:10:29] Corinne Foxx: Oh my God. What. Yeah. Oh my God. What are we doing out here? People, people just throw it away. Yeah. Yeah. So switching to reusable water bottles, such as, you know, a Mason jar or an ethically made product is an easy way to eliminate your use of plastics and like most sustainable objects.
It will say money. Yes, yes. That I, when I was doing the research, I was noticing a lot of the things was like, why buy an electric car? Why is it. Well, it's also just cheaper for you. All this stuff is cheaper. Yes. Reusing
[00:11:04] Natalie McMillan: things turns out is cheaper than buying new things every time. Yes.
[00:11:09] Corinne Foxx: Another thing that you can do in your home to be more sustainable is to use eco-friendly cleaning products, toxic chemicals from cleaning products, such as dish soaps, floor cleaners, all purpose spray.
Detergents are flushed down the drain and can enter our waterways and toxins can contaminate the water sources and be harmful to aquatic life. Also, did you know that commercial cleaning products contain VOC, VOC are volatile, organic compounds and they're hazardous. And they pose dangers to our own health.
We don't care about the environment, our own health by leaching into the air. And they, cause I know throat irritation. Dizziness, respiratory impairment, even memory loss. Jeez. So that part I use, I use basically only clean eco products and yeah,
[00:12:00] Natalie McMillan: I do too. Except for every once in a while I got to hit it with
[00:12:04] Corinne Foxx: a once a month.
I have my cleaning, our cleaning lady comes together at this point and she just did.
[00:12:12] Natalie McMillan: Yeah. You walk in and you're like, this place has been chemically altered, but Hey, you got to do it. Every ones. In my opinion. Yeah. So yeah. Another couple of tips here for your home reuse when you can, you just got those aren't usable,
[00:12:27] Corinne Foxx: just got these reusable paper towels, actually.
Thank you, Ashley and Michael Jo's sister-in-law and brother, they showed these to me and it was, I felt like I was using paper towels all the time to like, you know, just wipe down the counters and then I just throw it away. And I was like, this is not sustainable at all. And I was using a lot. Yeah. I like to keep my house really clean.
So I was using a lot. And so now there are these little cloth pieces of cloth that attached to each other so that you can roll them up light, like a, like a paper towel roll. They go on a little paper towel holder and I just pull it off and it's a little cloth and I wipe down the counters and then I put it in this little bin and then I washed them at the end of the week.
Then I reuse them. Perfect. And those are called Marley's Munster. Marley's monsters. We'll link it in the show notes. If you guys pick up, I need to get some of
[00:13:09] Natalie McMillan: those.
[00:13:10] Corinne Foxx: They're really fun. I really liked them a lot.
Yeah.
[00:13:13] Natalie McMillan: And they're also like
[00:13:13] Corinne Foxx: decorating. Yeah. You can get like really fun designs. You wouldn't, we would love all the designs on
[00:13:17] Natalie McMillan: there.
Oh my God. I'm going to go home and get them. Honestly. Also, if you got a new car or you're in, in the market, consider an electric vehicle because it runs on electric motor instead of the gasoline engine, a battery powered vehicle produces zero tailpipe emissions. So there's little doubt that having more electric cars on the road in congested, urban area, Can improve local air quality.
The average electric vehicle in the United States today produces the emissions equivalent of a gasoline car that gets 73 miles per gallon. 73. Yeah, that's a lot. And actually it's just set to get better and better as wind and solar is going to start replacing coal fired electricity because we're still, we're still generating with coal.
Yes. But once we get wind and solar
[00:14:08] Corinne Foxx: even better. So now that we talked about in our homes, it's about on our body, the fashion industry, and here's some stats as reported by the world bank group organization. So the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of annual global carbon emissions, more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
And I would've never got saying, I wouldn't say never guessed that. Yeah. So at this pace, the fashion industry is greenhouse gas emissions will surge more than 50% by 2030. So if demographic and lifestyle patterns continue as they are now, global consumption of apparel will rise from 62 million metric tons in 2019 to 102, 102 million tons in 10 years.
That's
[00:15:00] Natalie McMillan: like what the fuck? Because the thing is, is, you know, sometimes these projections are like in a hundred years, this is an eight years. This is an eight years. You guys. That is eight years away. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:15:13] Corinne Foxx: The average person today by 60% more clothing than in 2000. And not only do they buy more, they also discard more as a result.
So less than 1% of used clothing is recycled into new garments. And this is largely in part due to the rise in fast fashion over the past 10 years or so, I will say no matter what, I mean, I always donate my clothes. I don't ever throw
[00:15:37] Natalie McMillan: them away. No, I've always
[00:15:38] Corinne Foxx: donated my clothes. Yeah. And then if I don't, if I really nice clothes, I do consignment.
Yeah. Yeah. Which I guess, I don't know what happens if they don't get sold. All right.
[00:15:46] Natalie McMillan: Yeah. I'm sure they sell them though, but that's crazy. I mean, fast fashion is absolutely
[00:15:52] Corinne Foxx: insane. That's like a like fashion.
[00:15:57] Natalie McMillan: And it's also, I mean, that's a whole other conversation I could get into, I could get into all of it, but what can we do fashion wise?
Yeah. So one thing is to go vintage. So do things like shopping secondhand and vintage and going to your local Goodwill or. Charity shop. You can find all kinds of really great stuff there. Again, cheaper way cheaper. You can also buy on sites like Poshmark or D
[00:16:23] Corinne Foxx: pop. I've never done that. I've always wanted to try it.
[00:16:26] Natalie McMillan: I have, I downloaded Depot, but I've never used it. I get a lot of stuff on post. Oh, wow. It's just always cheap. These vintage Levi's I got it for $14. Wow.
[00:16:35] Corinne Foxx: Oh, these look real. I love these jeans on
[00:16:37] Natalie McMillan: you. Thank you. $14 on Poshmark, WASO, reusing where recycling. And also E-bay if I know like a specific thing that I want, like, oh, I want to search for this like certain band tee.
If I go on eBay and like start searching for it. I found ones on there too. And it's kind of fun. Cause it's like a scavenger hunt.
[00:16:55] Corinne Foxx: Ooh. Yeah.
[00:16:58] Natalie McMillan: Straight up by less. So just not shopping at all is a really great way to do this embracing what you already own. And what's already in your wardrobe. You know, it's kind of a lame tip, but it's not very fun, but also the planet is burning.
That's also not. Not fun. You can also look for eco-friendly materials. So look out for more natural fibers, for example, cotton over polyester. Not only do they feel a lot nicer when you wear them, but they don't contain things like microfibers that go into the water and into Marine life. When we wash our clothes, I had no idea about that.
I didn't
[00:17:35] Corinne Foxx: know about microfiber. I have
[00:17:37] Natalie McMillan: no idea that microfibers go into the ocean. But, Hey, this is why we have this podcast. And then lastly, learn how to DIY, cause it doesn't take much to learn how to hand sew or stitch up a little hole. Or if you have a pair of ripped jeans, if they're becoming too ripped, you can just cut those off.
Make them shorts, another flag. We love a George. Oh, I am. I would say 90% of the year, we really are. I really am. Another fun idea is to put cool patches on your jeans, you know, and if sewing, isn't your thing, you can take your stuff to a local tailor and they'll get a sorted out. Yeah. You know, you don't need to just throw things out.
I think we should move
[00:18:17] Corinne Foxx: into food though. Let's talk about the food industry, which is very interesting new findings. Show that more than a third, which is 34% of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions are generated by food systems. They also showed that food generates an average of two tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per person annually.
Jeez food retail too, is an increasingly important part of the picture emissions from the sector tripled between 1990 and 2015 in large part, thanks to increasing demand for refrigeration to prevent food from spoiling. That's a lot of energy. Yeah. Yeah. But there are things we can do. Yes.
[00:19:00] Natalie McMillan: So number one thing is consider a more plant-based diet.
Now this doesn't mean that you're going to have to go vegan. This is not what this means. Yes. Realistically, for the majority of people cutting down on meat consumption just to like a couple of days a week back could make a huge difference. So did you know that it takes 30 bathtubs of water to produce one burger?
Wow. One burger. One third of the Earth's land is dedicated to
[00:19:30] Corinne Foxx: livestock, Jesus Christ there in horrific
[00:19:32] Natalie McMillan: conditions, conditions. Jesus, Paul McCartney, he's been a long time vegetarian and he says it's meat-free Mondays. So you designate Monday as being your day to be a little veggie for the sake
[00:19:45] Corinne Foxx: of the environment.
Yeah. I feel like I have, I have like, I'm a meat eater, but I first I do not cook meat at home. I only, I cook fish at home and that's really, it. Me and Joe make our little spaghetti, which, you know, we know what I'm talking about. We make a low meat sauce, but I really will go days without eating meat. And then on the weekends, or if we're out or go to a nice place, then I'll eat meat.
But I feel like when you just like, have it in your mind, like I don't eat it all the
[00:20:08] Natalie McMillan: time. Right. And this sometimes, and this is the thing too, or it can be. And if you want to do, if you want to, but also this is the thing, these little tiny things add up. If you cut meat out one day, That's doing a big thing.
[00:20:20] Corinne Foxx: Yeah, totally, totally. You can also eat as a locally as possible. So if you're eating soybeans that are shipped from China or bananas that have been shipped from Columbia, that's not as sustainable as if you're eating apples grown in Washington or even in your own town. So if you support your local farmer's market, her also supporting more low scale food agriculture, which tends to be more kind of miss girl.
We're kinder to miss girl,
[00:20:47] Natalie McMillan: mother Ms. Girl, mother earth. Yeah.
[00:20:50] Corinne Foxx: Out of the farm. We going to get every Sunday. I don't do that. I need to do that. There's one down the street from my
[00:20:53] Natalie McMillan: house. I could literally walk. I love the farmer's market because also again, cheap. And it's better. It just simply
[00:21:01] Corinne Foxx: tastes so cool to like meet the people who like, make
[00:21:04] Natalie McMillan: know, oh, so you can also eat as seasonally as possible.
So if you're eating something that isn't in season, then you know, that they've been grown in a greenhouse somewhere that uses a massive amount of resources to basically fake the weather. So you're using a huge amount of heat energy to grow, whatever it is that's out of season. I'd never considered that it's an actually to recreate a whole.
Like a weather pattern. Yeah. I need to
[00:21:31] Corinne Foxx: be better. I need to wonder bananas and ,
[00:21:34] Natalie McMillan: I don't that I eat bananas every single day, go in and out season. Oh shit, I gotta work on this. And
[00:21:40] Corinne Foxx: then the last thing you can do, and this is not the last thing, there's a million things to do, but that we're going to say on the.
I think about packaging. So you can make better choices at the store by buying unpackaged, fruit and vegetables, or opting for cans and cardboard that are widely recycled instead of fast.
[00:21:56] Natalie McMillan: Yes. Those single use plastics also, you know what, when I go to the store, if I'm getting fruit or vegetables, I don't put them in a little bags.
Oh, I just put them straight on the. Good for you because you know, they're just going to go in my grocery bag anyways, and I'm going to wash them still. Yeah. So save the little bags. So this is actually, we're going to move into a new one, which has been shocking for me to learn about. Yes. And that is the beauty
[00:22:22] Corinne Foxx: industry.
Yes. Also affected by packaging.
[00:22:25] Natalie McMillan: Yes. Packaging in the beauty industry is less practical and more fanciful because beauty brands, they seem to go all out on the packaging. I'm not gonna lie. I love a good package and often the more expensive or luxurious a product is the more nonessential packaging you may expect to find.
So about 70% of the beauty industry's waste comes from packaging and according to latest reports from zero waste week beauty packaging amounts to 120 billion units every year. That includes plastic paper, glass, and metals, all of which end up in landfills year after year. Yeah. Now here's something hold on to your seats.
Everybody. If you're driving, maybe pull over the average moisturizer pot takes nearly 1000 years to decompose.
[00:23:24] Corinne Foxx: That is so upsetting. That is so upsetting.
[00:23:27] Natalie McMillan: So upsetting. That's it just crazy to me, crazy to me. So what can we do? What can we do? Number one, we can say goodbye to face wipes and kind of baby wipes injured.
Just use a good wash cloth and a nice oil-based cleanser to help break down your makeup at the end of the day. If you've got a baby, though, look, they do have biodegradable wipes. So kind of look out for that. I have these little cotton rounds they're made out of bamboo. You can get them on Amazon, although that's not equal, but Hey, it's a little.
A little steps, but I use these reusable cotton rounds to take my makeup off and they're really soft, super durable. And then they come with this little bag. So when I just throw them all in there and wash them with my clothes, you wash them?
[00:24:13] Corinne Foxx: Yeah. Just Chuck them in the washing machine. My little white.
They're like your little paper towels, but they're little cotton
[00:24:19] Natalie McMillan: rounds. I need those. You need them. My super soft. I'll send you the link. Okay. Well
[00:24:26] Corinne Foxx: maybe I'll try to find, to get them, to get them not on, not on Amazon. It's a trap and everything you can do is to try to buy package free so you can get shampoo, conditioner and body wash bars.
They might cost a little bit more, but they last actually a lot longer. So the cost per use is a lot lower. This isn't something that we've actually personally tried yet, but you've seen it at lush. I've seen it at lush.
[00:24:54] Natalie McMillan: I've seen the little like shampoo bars and stuff.
[00:24:56] Corinne Foxx: Yeah. I've never, I really need to, I don't want to give that a shot too.
There's also a bunch of brands now that do razors with environmental friendly replacement blades that they mailed to use. You're not getting the package of like plastic razors every month. I do that. Now I have a reusable head that I just bought the new head
[00:25:13] Natalie McMillan: for. Oh, I need to do that. I need, cause I
[00:25:16] Corinne Foxx: still, I still just have to get 'em.
It's called Flamingo. Okay. I saw those Abbs. I saw that, that target. I don't know if that's sustainable, but maybe it is. I'm sure
[00:25:24] Natalie McMillan: it is because, I mean, you buy a pack of six of the razors and it's just like a big chunk of plastic.
[00:25:30] Corinne Foxx: Yeah, no, no, no, this isn't that big. Do you think the top, but anyways, it's less plastic for sure.
[00:25:33] Natalie McMillan: Yes. You can also think about the products you use for your period. So tampons and pads are single use items and not everyone disposes of them properly. So the big change you can make is going to a menstrual cup, which is the silicone cup that catches all the blood and you can reuse it every month. We personally know tons of people that have them.
Absolutely love them. We have not tried that.
[00:25:59] Corinne Foxx: Haven't tried it, but what we have. Corrine is the Thinx period underwear. Yes. Which. Love love, love. And it's like so much more sustainable. It is. I probably should get, um, I have some peers that I've had for like two years that I could probably like, I get new ones too, but like they last for so long and they work so well.
And I only wear mine to sleep, but I think my, like my little sisters wear it to school and stuff like. Literally zero. Wait, it is zero. It's
[00:26:29] Natalie McMillan: all honestly also they're so comfortable. They have even a pair of like pajama shorts. I have, I have the Virginia
[00:26:36] Corinne Foxx: shorts incredibly soft. I feel like even if you sleep in a tampon, it's uncomfortable, still extremely uncomfortable.
[00:26:44] Natalie McMillan: And then it's just all.
[00:26:45] Corinne Foxx: Yeah, all that single use. Yeah. Wash these. And they're going to go also, but you know, w we're not saying that all big brands can't be, eco-friendly a lot of big beauty brands are really taking inspiration from the environmental and even vegan movement. So keep an eye out for your favorite brands and see if they're launching something that is more, eco-friendly like an alternative for you that you can kind of jump on their bandwagon.
I think the beauty industry is probably. Way more self-aware than other
[00:27:16] Natalie McMillan: industries, I think, but also they're catching on because people are, people are debating on it. Yeah. They want it. And then our last little category here, which is a big one is travel travel. So one return flight from Montreal to London emits as much carbon emissions as heating a European home for an entire.
Just that one flight, the total carbon impact of a single flight is so high that avoiding just one trip can be equivalent to going gasoline free for a year.
[00:27:50] Corinne Foxx: Okay, good. I feel like in your car, Nevermind. If they would say feel good. Cause me and Joe do a lot of road trips, but we, uh, do not have electric vehicles.
So it's not really that much helpful,
[00:27:59] Natalie McMillan: but it is
[00:28:00] Corinne Foxx: better than flying. Really?
[00:28:02] Natalie McMillan: Yeah. No, I did read that it is driving is better than flying again. It's the little things we can't completely alter our lives to be like, there's no way that you can be like, I'm never getting on a plane again. It's unrealistic.
But for example, tomorrow I'm driving up to the bay. I could fly flying would take 45 minutes. Six and a half hours. There we go.
[00:28:23] Corinne Foxx: Yeah. Think about the ways that you're getting around. For example, if you're traveling somewhere that has a rail system, like the subway in New York city, or I love the tube in London, it is so easy to use.
I love to do, but so clean, so clean, you can hop on one of those instead of like catching an Uber or a taxi. And also, like we just said, be mindful of flying cars. Of course flying is inevitable, but. Life example is that we recently went from New York to Boston and instead of taking a 50 minute flight, we took a little four hour train ride and it was so fun.
It was honestly more fun. We, I had Doritos and ginger ale or Sprite. Coke. Yes. Yes. That was when I was on my
[00:29:02] Natalie McMillan: caffeine. That was when she was drinking a Coke every day and then was like, why is my heart palpitating? Right. But yeah, it's, it's fun to do that. Yeah. You can also pack sustainably, so have your goal to be, to leave as little behind as possible.
So when packing your toiletries consider using like refillable bottles instead of the little travel sized ones that you're just going to throw away in the end or the little tiny hotel shampoos. Cause they probably do not recycle those. Oh
[00:29:29] Corinne Foxx: yeah. They're probably just. That's that's so true. And also when you're traveling plan, where you eat, look into restaurants that use local produce and are of the farm to table mindset, they're even restaurants who pride themselves in minimal waste, which could be something really fun to look into on your trail.
Yeah. Why
[00:29:47] Natalie McMillan: not? Another quick little tip is to hop on a bike. Yes. You know, explore the city that you're visiting by renting a bike and just go on a little
[00:29:54] Corinne Foxx: adventure. It's a great city to ride
[00:29:58] Natalie McMillan: your bike in the little sand, what is a Santander bikes or whatever. I'm like, God, I
[00:30:02] Corinne Foxx: love the bikes and Linda and I took those around all the time.
[00:30:05] Natalie McMillan: Yeah. Most major cities have them. So like city bikes, it's not a great place to ride a bike with you LA. And if you want to, you go for it, you do that. You would do that. But the city bikes, like in New York, you just go and unlock them and then your ride them around and you just park them back. Done deal.
Yes. I wonder also about birds and stuff. I wonder if writing
[00:30:25] Corinne Foxx: on a bird. Yeah.
[00:30:26] Natalie McMillan: Like I wonder if,
[00:30:28] Corinne Foxx: oh my God, Natalie, you were talking about the fuck them scooters. Yeah. I thought you meant birds in the sky. Oh. And I said, writing a birder and I was like, uh
[00:30:37] Natalie McMillan: huh.
[00:30:37] Corinne Foxx: I was like, oh yeah, you could also just hit you ride with a pigeon.
[00:30:42] Natalie McMillan: Just attach yourself to a pit. No, I mean like the little electric scooters, I don't know how much more eco-friendly that would be because they obviously do have to be
[00:30:50] Corinne Foxx: charged. Yeah. I don't know. I'd have to look into the facts, but it's gotta be better than
[00:30:54] Natalie McMillan: drive driving. It's got
[00:30:55] Corinne Foxx: know better than driving for sure.
Something really cool. We can do, if you want to see how great your carbon footprint is, you can go to footprint, calculator.org and see how your lifestyle affects the planet. Oh shit. I did it. And it's terrifying. Don't I mean, I, I suggest you do it because it gives you, it's like, oh, what type of car do you drive?
How far is your commute? Blah, blah, blah. Do you do this? Do that. And it's very detailed. And then it's like, okay, this is like your carbon footprint. And it's. Uh, you're like, oh shit. Okay. There's there's some work to be done. Damn you, my 2022 goal will be at the end of the year to do the quiz again and for it to be like significantly low.
Okay.
[00:31:33] Natalie McMillan: Yeah. If you just implement some of these little tips
[00:31:36] Corinne Foxx: here. Yes. You know, we'll link the quiz in the show notes. If you guys want to take it and, you know, see where you can be better, but we hope that you guys learn more about how to incorporate eco-friendly habits into your own life and feel inspired to live a more sustainable life.
We got it. We got to do it. Like literally we have no choice we have to do, but not. Should we circle back on the wine we're drinking, which is yeah.
[00:32:00] Natalie McMillan: It's Tablas Creek, 2018 Patel in the
[00:32:04] Corinne Foxx: tablets. That's that weird? Getting your science talent plus tablets. Tell him
[00:32:10] Natalie McMillan: blah, blah. Yeah. I don't know how to say this, but it is just simply a red, black.
From Pasa Robles, California.
[00:32:18] Corinne Foxx: And shall we intro our Hatay of the way?
[00:32:20] Natalie McMillan: Yes, our hotties miss some Hayak she's actually on the board of the global green organization, which raises awareness about global warming helps create green jobs, supports affordable green housing projects and assist disadvantaged communities in fighting climate
[00:32:37] Corinne Foxx: change.
I love that. Cool. Yeah. I feel like Salma Hayek is very unproblematic. Yeah. I think so. So one, two Salma Hayek,
[00:32:46] Natalie McMillan: let me take another sip here. Okay. That's okay. That's okay.
[00:32:52] Corinne Foxx: Dang. We've had a lot. Okay.
[00:32:56] Natalie McMillan: But you know what it's because we had a string of great
[00:32:59] Corinne Foxx: ones. We did, we did really, we ended the 20, 21 strong.
Yeah, we did. We just didn't get back in our flow for the new year. I give it a. 5 5, 5 stuck down the barrel Berry. It's a wine. It is. Wine is a wine period.
All right. So this is the part of the episode where he played a little wrap-up game. And today we're playing 200 questions. No, we're not answering two under questions or picking a question one through 200. It gets more intimate as you get higher and we're going to answer it. So, Natalie. And the hot seat.
This is always
[00:33:38] Natalie McMillan: hard because we always choose the same numbers we do. Like, I want to say 77 and I know for a fact they've already done it. Do you want me to track? Sure. Okay. Let's go with 107. Okay. Definitely. Don't think you've done. I don't think I've done that seven just fields. Right? Okay.
[00:33:55] Corinne Foxx: It's not thrilling, but you know, we're going to do it anyways.
Have you ever given to any charities? Yes. Okay. You want to do another one?
[00:34:03] Natalie McMillan: Sure. Yeah. That one was okay. I was not your fault. I chose the number. You want me to choose a new number? You just want to go. You just go one up 1 0
[00:34:12] Corinne Foxx: 8. Okay. What's the last adventury went
[00:34:15] Natalie McMillan: on. The last adventure I went on. I think it had to have been Salem.
Yeah. That was an adventure. Oh, for sure. And then leaving wasn't adventure as well.
[00:34:27] Corinne Foxx: Oh yeah. When we had to leave in the middle of the store
[00:34:29] Natalie McMillan: in the middle of a bomb cyclone. Oh, in which the plane actually, we might not even be alive right now. This might be a figment of our imagination.
[00:34:38] Corinne Foxx: And the thing is I also got upgraded to first class, so I couldn't sit with Natalie in the plane.
I still to this day thing and go into a different dimension and we're we're yeah. We're dad who died
[00:34:49] Natalie McMillan: no way. Yes, it was true adventure. That was insane. It was insane. All right,
[00:34:56] Corinne Foxx: I'll go. I'll choose a number one through 200. Uh, let's
[00:35:00] Natalie McMillan: go with 44 44. I think we've probably done this one. President Obama. Let's see, got a scroll, got a score.
Oh, I don't think we've done this. Okay. What's the most interesting piece of art you've seen.
[00:35:15] Corinne Foxx: Okay. This is so lame, but I'm going to say it anyways. And it's not that it was the most interesting. I was just the most shocked. Well, two things, one, I saw the statue of David and I was like, oh my God. When I saw it in person, I was like, I didn't know.
It was so. Massive. You just, have you seen him present? Oh, I've never been. Oh, okay. So if you see it in person, it is like, you've seen pictures of it and you're like, okay, I wasn't excited to go. I didn't want to go as wasn't right. I know what it looks like. And I wasn't. I was like, I was like, Stunning. Like I was like pushed back to the back.
Like when I was at the Mona Lisa, I was like, dang. Cause it's so small, but it's insanely huge.
[00:35:50] Natalie McMillan: And isn't it crazy that that's sculpted out of Iraq. It's insane by like a 17 year old kid
[00:35:56] Corinne Foxx: who did it, Michelangelo. Michelangelo. Did he also do the Sistine chapel? He did. I also said the Sistine chapel, which I was going to say is the only other time where I was like, holy shit.
Oh, so
[00:36:05] Natalie McMillan: you like Mike? You're a fan of Michelangelo, apparently. Michael Angelo. Hated doing the Sistine chapel. Absolutely hated it about akin. Yes. And he wrote little notes to his mom and he would like do little doodles of himself, like all cramped up against the, yeah, seriously. And then who did it? I think Raphael did a painting and he did all the like Renaissance painters of the time.
Like they were all alive. Com dunked on Michelangelo. They hated that guy. So in the painting, he's literally like leaning and he's like, oh, sad. Looking on a block of marble. Oh my God. Funny, funny,
[00:36:46] Corinne Foxx: hilarious. Yeah. Apparently I like Michelangelo because those are both times where I was like, oh my God, this is insane.
I've never seen anything like this.
[00:36:54] Natalie McMillan: I mean, the work that. Um, and he was literally like 16 years
[00:36:58] Corinne Foxx: old. Oh my God. Not know that. So yeah, maybe it's very basic boring, but I do remember being like, holy shit. When I, when I saw David and also the Sistine chapel,
[00:37:08] Natalie McMillan: there's a reason why they're the most famous things in the world.
You know what I mean? True, true, true.
[00:37:12] Corinne Foxx: True. Okay guys. Well, don't forget to sign up for our newsletter. If you don't want to miss an episode, you can go to, am I doing this right? pod.com and sign up for a mailing list where we send little fun, little tidbits, little facts, little figures. Yes, I do. She make a sweatshirt that says facts and hacks.
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[00:37:30] Corinne Foxx: love that
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