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 chang...
Jan 31, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 16
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 join...
Jan 24, 2022•21 min•Season 4Ep. 15
In her Design Class, Qiting Fan g 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 ubiqui...
Jan 18, 2022•16 min•Season 4Ep. 15
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. ...
Jan 11, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 14
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. -- If the content we make on the Eco-Warriors Podcast makes an impact on you,...
Jan 03, 2022•15 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Using transaction fees, TreeCard is the wooden debit card that helps to plant trees. Grant LeCorte , Community Leader for TreeCard, gave us all the details on how we can all automate our small sustainable actions by doing things like making daily purchases and using a search engine like Ecosia. We also touch on Grant’s journey into sustainability and what has inspired him to pursue this line of work. Use referral code TREECARD-PARTNER to get off the waitlist and get your TreeCard within a week. ...
Dec 27, 2021•16 min•Season 4Ep. 12
When we get started on our sustainability journeys, we’re all coming to it from different ways and for different reasons. As a move to help diversify the voices we share on this show, we’re happy to present Hanz Rodriguez, Eco-Warrior Podcast’s Production Editor, and Belinda Chiu, Social Media Manager and Researcher, in this conversation about how anyone can make moves on their pathway to a more sustainable life. Hanz interviews Belinda to ask her about how she started on her sustainability jour...
Dec 20, 2021•10 min•Season 4Ep. 11
At 120 gigatons of carbon stored in the ground, soil is the largest terrestrial pool of carbon on earth. The Soil Inventory Project is building technology and a database that will help farmers, ranchers and land managers be able to measure the carbon in their land. By helping to measure soil carbon and promoting practices that can help capture more carbon from the atmosphere, TSIP is hoping to be part of the solution for mitigating climate change. Sonali Lamba , Executive Director of TSIP, educa...
Dec 13, 2021•23 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Austin Rempel works at American Forests , one of the oldest conservation organizations in the US founded in 1875. After getting his degrees in Ecology from University of Boulder and attending the Yale School of Forestry, Austin has been working on some of the most intense deforestation projects in post-wildfire environments. In this conversation, we chat about some of the amazing projects that American Forests helps fund, controversies around tree thinning, and how trees and social impact inters...
Dec 06, 2021•19 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Nicole Bassett is a Co-Founder of The Renewal Workshop . After spending time in film and production, Nicole decided to build a business that could be a force for change. After completing a Masters in Environmental Studies, Nicole worked at Patagonia then founded her own company to help other brands think about end of life for their products. Today, The Renewal Workshop works with companies like the North Face, Prana, Vuori and PEARL iZUMi and has diverted more than half a million pounds of cloth...
Nov 29, 2021•27 min•Season 4Ep. 8
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 me...
Nov 22, 2021•23 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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 recyc...
Nov 15, 2021•21 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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. -- If the content we make on the Eco...
Nov 08, 2021•20 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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 ar...
Nov 01, 2021•19 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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 dive...
Oct 25, 2021•19 min•Season 4Ep. 3
“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 ...
Oct 18, 2021•18 min•Season 4Ep. 2
“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 c...
Oct 11, 2021•22 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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? -- If the content we make on the Eco-Warriors Podcast makes an impact on you, become a sponsor! Visit anchor.fm/trashtalking and click on the link to "Support This Podcast." ...
Oct 10, 2021•3 min
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 ...
Dec 28, 2020•17 min•Season 3Ep. 13
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 a...
Dec 21, 2020•19 min•Season 3Ep. 12
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 ...
Dec 14, 2020•17 min•Season 3Ep. 11
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 ...
Dec 07, 2020•15 min•Season 3Ep. 10
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. -- Season 3 o...
Nov 30, 2020•15 min•Season 3Ep. 9
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...
Nov 23, 2020•15 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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 Colo...
Nov 16, 2020•16 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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 Tar...
Nov 09, 2020•16 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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 re...
Nov 02, 2020•18 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 ow...
Oct 26, 2020•17 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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. -- Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Products . Plaine Products is a zero-waste personal c...
Oct 19, 2020•16 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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. -- Season 3 of Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors is sponsored by Plaine Prod...
Oct 13, 2020•20 min•Season 3Ep. 2
