Person & Planet Podcast
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Welcome to Person and Planet, sharing all things good within sustainability and wellness. Personal wellness and the health of our environment are intimately connected, so this series was created to combine awareness of these amazing initiatives, products, services, and businesses that benefit person and planet from around the world. Join us in spreading the word about “all things good” and stay tuned for the upcoming Person & Planet publication. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/personandplanet/support
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Zach is the Founder and CEO of Sativa Building Systems. He created the patented Z Panel structures and hempcrete block panels for safe and sustainable building construction that includes passive air filtration, resistance to mold, pests, rot, and fire.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Michelle Miller, North America Sustainability Manager at Symrise. She’s had roles in environmental health and safety, product stewardship, and is the former Chief Sustainability officer for a local paper company in Appleton, WI. In September 2023, Symrise hosted a Waste Reduction Campaign for their facilities in North America. Stephanie Krubsack (Person & Planet podcast host and founder of Purevant Living) hosted a workshop for Symrise on Waste Reduction At The Workplace & Home, with an at-home and in-office activity for waste and product assessment.
As a result of the initiative, now over 50% of the participating facilities have the proper receptacles in place for waste and recycling and are improving on site sustainability as a whole with Change Champions and Corporate Sustainability Ambassador Teams.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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James Davies is the former Executive Director of Bublr Bikes, Milwaukee’s nonprofit bike share operator. James received his law degree from the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and his bachelor’s degree in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
During his time at Bublr, the bike share system has grown from 9 stations in downtown Milwaukee to 109 stations across Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, and West Allis. James also developed and secured funding for the Access Pass to provide free Bublr Passes to income qualified individuals and the adaptive bike program which has adaptive bikes integrated directly into the Bublr System. Last year Bublr added electric assist bicycles to its fleet as well as installing 15 new bike share stations. This year Bublr is adding 200 more electric assist bicycles and installing another 19 bike share stations. In 2001 James was named to the Milwaukee Business Journal 40 Under 40 list. James also serves on the board of the North American Bikeshare and Scootershare Association (NABSA) and provides volunteer legal services through the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic. James enjoys reading, running, and biking.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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*We apologize for the background interference in this episode and slight zapping noises. It was so much good information that we had to post it!
Kevin is the owner of Northwoods Tea, a botanist, mushroom forager and organic tea maker. Kevin discusses how he sustainably harvests wild herbs and mushrooms, how medicinal mushrooms are good for your immune system and high in antioxidants, and how to watch for pesticides in plants and lead in chaga.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Kelsey Moses is the Excise Tax and Compliance Director and B Keeper (for B Corp Certification) at Lakefront Brewery and Events at B Local Wisconsin. Learn more about Certified B Corps & Benefit Corporations in this episode.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Zack Leimkuehler is the Vice President of New Business Development at Ahlstrom. Zack leads product development efforts with a focus on delivering sustainable solutions for Ahlstrom’s customers around the globe. With a strong presence in specialty papers and fibers, the team creates a wealth of opportunities for innovation and product improvements to deliver value to customers and in turn, create long term technical and strategic demand for paper. Leimkuehler has been involved with multiple different end-use markets, collaborating with customers and brand owners to build lasting value and sustainability with fiber-based products.
Zack has been with Ahlstrom and its North American legacy businesses for more than 20 years and has held positions in Manufacturing, Marketing, and Product Development. Zack is a Paper Science Engineering Graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Chris Corkery is the Owner / CEO of Hundred Acre, Milwaukee’s largest indoor vertical hydroponic farm providing fresh greens and herbs that are harvested weekly, and distributed locally year-round to support a more resilient supply chain. (They sell to the school system, Universities, stadiums, hotels, restaurants, and grocers.) Corkery is a recent NY transplant, and 3 time career changer; media exec, professional chef, social entrepreneur and urban farmer, on a mission to reinvent the food system.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Jenny joined Tradewater in 2022 as the Market Development Manager. She is passionate in changing the way we view business to be both profitable and purposeful. Climate risk and financial risk can no longer be viewed as separate topics. Jenny has worked within the technology and hospitality sectors, and comes with 15+ years of experience in Business Operations, Market Development, and Community Engagement.
“Tradewater is working to make the greatest possible difference in the fight against climate change and is doing so as quickly as possible.” As a mission-based B-Corp, Tradewater works to permanently prevent potent greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases like refrigerants and methane from releasing into the atmosphere. They also provide free calculators for businesses and individuals to calculate their carbon emissions and have offsetting solutions for their certified projects.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Lee Krevat is the founder and CEO of Krevat Energy Innovations, a company dedicated to climate change mitigation by advising start-ups, utilities, regulators, legislators, and environmentally focused companies and communities. He keynoted his first conference in 2010 and has since spoken over one hundred times, including live recordings of his podcast series, The Climate Champions.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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This episode features both authors of the new book, Paper Valley: The Fight For The Fox River Cleanup, on the $1.3 billion cleanup of the Fox River in northeast Wisconsin, the world’s largest environmental river cleanup of PCB contamination. You can visit their site here.
David Allen is an award-winning scientist and author. He directed the natural resource damage assessment of the Lower Fox River and the Bay of Green Bay from 1992 through 2001 as the assessment manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His team led the $10 million effort to collect and organize the information that was used to launch Superfund at the site, and they published one of the most comprehensive and public natural resource damage assessments in U.S. history during 1998-2000. He was the leader and public face of the assessment for federal, state, and tribal agencies. That assessment eventually led to the $1.3 billion dollar cleanup and restoration, paid by the polluters. It was among the largest Superfund efforts since the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, and the effort led to the largest PCB cleanup in history.
Susan Campbell is an award-winning environmental journalist and author. As an environmental reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1995-2000, she covered the scientific and political controversy leading to the landmark $1.3 billion dollar cleanup of PCBs from Wisconsin’s Fox River, and the implications for the bay of Green Bay and Great Lakes beyond. Her extensive reporting on the issue won her national and state honors, including a national “Best of Gannett” award for specialty reporting, an enterprise reporting award from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, and a spot news award from the Milwaukee Press Club. Campbell is also co-author of “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise,” with the late Earth Day founder, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Jeff Lux, Ph.D. served in the public, private and academic sectors for nearly 40 years teaching, researching and managing projects in sustainable design and environmental planning, water resources, land use, and dispute resolution. He served as Town Manager for Truckee and Planning Director for the cities of Davis and Truckee, as well as an environmental planning consultant with two prestigious Bay Area firms. Dr. Lux also served 20 years as an Associate Dean/Professor at UC Davis where he directed professional education programs offering 5,000 trainings annually often focused on community engagement/dispute resolution and courses in planning and design on campus. His summer abroad course, Sustainable Cities of Northern Europe has become one of the most popular and valuable in UC Davis’ global learning program. Dr. Lux has conducted research nationally and internationally and written numerous publications including two books, Water and Land Use and the Land Conservation Handbook. In addition, he has mediated over 150 cases encompassing complex water resource and environmental disputes.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Christian Stoll is the CEO & Co-founder of Joystik. He has a degree in psychology and has been in the behavioral health space for over 14 years. Joystik helps you harness the power of your mind and control your response to stress with a simple and easy mind-body medicine technique through autogenics. The meaning of autogenics is self-generated, where Joystik helps people harness that tech to help you find control within your mind and body attain your goals, be happier, or have more joy in your life. It can also help you control stress and quiet your mind, focus, and sleep better.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Pauline is an Energy Engineer at Ampaire Ltd. and specializes in charging infrastructure. She joined the company in January 2021 and has worked on determining optimal charging solutions for the electric aviation industry ever since. Pauline has supported three government backed projects, two Future Flight Projects on behalf of Ampaire, the 2ZERO project (Towards Zero Emissions in Regional aircraft Operations) and the SATE project in which Ampaire’s hybrid-electric EEL flew route proving flights in the Scottish Highlands and the south-west of England. She was responsible for ensuring that the charging infrastructure was in place for the 9PAX hybrid-electric demonstrator. The third project was a charging infrastructure feasibility study funded by the Transport Research and Innovation Grant for Zero Emission Flight. Currently, Pauline is working the commercial operations modeling for Ampaire’s latest product.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Elyse-Krista Mische is a mixed-media artist who contemplates mortality, memory, and time through both independent and collaborative work. She embraces make-believe and craft processes from her childhood in combination with fine art practices to address individual and collective existential issues. Elyse-Krista has been awarded multiple artist residencies throughout the United States and continues to show her work both nationally and internationally. She uses her personal art practice at Life Propaganda and Worry Birds business alongside community-wide creative engagement to advocate death education, mental health, and support of older adults. Ongoing partnerships with the Fox Valley Memory Project, SPARK!, and senior caregiving facilitate this engagement and art programming opportunities for the elderly in her community. Recently, she was an artist in residence with PioneerCare and the Kaddatz (Caaadetz) Gallery of Fergus Falls, MN residing in an assisted-living community while providing art education to older adults. Elyse-Krista is currently the Artist in Residence at the Trout Museum of Art in Appleton, WI and serves as the Chair of the Appleton Public Art Committee where she advocates for inclusive and diverse public art opportunities.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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There is one simple thing that you can do to your home or building to reduce energy costs by 10-30%! You can learn this, more about the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act), what you can do to improve energy efficiency in your home, and more in this episode with Kevin Kane, the Chief Economist and co-founder at Green Homeowners United, a business that makes it easy for people to do one of the most important steps to fight climate change and save money in the process by cutting carbon emissions at home.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Jennifer Bolger Breceda is the Executive Director of Milwaukee Riverkeeper, a science-based advocacy organization working for swimmable, fishable rivers throughout the Milwaukee River Basin. In this episode we discuss clean water advocacy, environmental law, road salt water monitoring, phosphorus runoff, the adopt-a-river program and more!
After 15 years of practicing environmental law at several reputable firms in Milwaukee, including being Shareholder and Co-Chair of a successful and busy environmental legal department, Bolger Breceda decided to change course and leave her private practice to start a new chapter in her career as the Executive Director of Milwaukee Riverkeeper.
Over the past 8 years, Bolger Breceda has served as a “chief executive officer,” including chief ambassador, fundraiser, and leader, of this highly-respected science-based environmental advocacy organization. She has grown the Board of Directors from a reporting entity to strategic think-tank, and believes strongly that working collaboratively with local, state, regional and national partners in advancement of mission is critical to its success. During her tenure, Milwaukee Riverkeeper’s annual budget and the staff have both doubled, all while meeting financial and organizational goals.
For the last 8 years, Jennifer has worked to coordinate and push forward a generational opportunity aimed at removing legacy contamination in Milwaukee area waterways called the Area of Concern. She also led a statewide and regional coalition focused on ensuring that the implementation of the Great Lakes Compact is in keeping with sound management principles, conservation mandates, public engagement, best available science and the spirit and intent of the law. A strategic thinker, she worked tirelessly toward the successful removal of the Estabrook Dam, not only saving taxpayer dollars, but also taking a generational opportunity to improve an important area of the Milwaukee River.
Jennifer’s expertise in environmental law has brought her before many governmental agencies, to speak on a variety of environmental and water related matters. Jennifer has been active in environmental, charitable and service organizations since before her undergraduate days and has always strived to be an advocate for the environment. She has an avid interest in many different water activities including swimming, kayaking, canoeing, boating, and water skiing. She wants to see Milwaukee thrive and truly become a water centric and healthy community.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Danielle is an artist, entrepreneur and wellness educator. Her company Soundwave Wellness helps people find more rhythm, balance and harmony in their lives through sound. She specializes in the use of tuning forks for healing.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Jolyon Collier is a philanthropist, artist, and President & Founder of Counting Coral, a nonprofit dedicated to coral reef restoration through sculptures that house coral nurseries to grow more resilient coral.
You can watch the video about the Counting Coral - Project Fiji installation here.
Counting Coral is a 501-(c)(3) certified nonprofit dedicated to reef restoration. Counting Coral designs, builds, donates, and installs stainless steel sculptural coral nurseries specifically designed to grow climate resilient coral. These intricately designed sculptures create both an underwater park and a coral nursery, where fragile reef systems can be rebuilt and protected amongst the awe and attention from tourists.
Counting Coral is working towards diminishing the massive and devastating effects of coral loss by changing the way coral gardener’s garden coral. Our new approach to reef restoration is to harvest climate resilient coral and place them on our sculptures that are specifically designed to protect coral from predators. These precious and valuable corals will be kept safe and allowed to grow to spawning maturity, this coral will then naturally propagate valuable ecosystems.
Counting Coral is leading the development of Sculptural Coral Banks, a new and advanced method to aid coral growth. Sculptural coral banks are designed with coral propagation in mind. These beautiful structures are multi-functional, tackling previous issues in restoration and tourism. Their sculptures are planted out with climate-resilient coral, developing into a coral bank over time. Their coral banks will naturally propagate reef systems, whilst maintaining a healthy coral supply for harvesting when needed.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Learn more about sustainable investments and 401k from Greg Wait of Riverwater Partners, and how ESG data is used during the investment process.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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Nikki Burnett is a functional nutritionist, who founded Taste Life Nutrition as a way to help others fuel their success with healthy nutrition. She works with ambitious professionals to help them overcome hidden barriers to both health and success. What many people don’t realize are challenges such as chronic stress, brain fog, low energy, and stubborn chronic issues frequently have their root in unhealthy foods and unknown inflammatory conditions. Nikki helps people tailor their food to their unique biochemical makeup and lifestyle needs so they can feel great, thrive, and do more of what they love. She also helps your pets become healthier by changing their food, and supporting their gut and joints for longevity.
The Person & Planet theme song is an original song by singer/songwriter Barbara Stephan. Click here to listen to “Gonna Be There.”
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