Eco-Warriors Podcast | Sustainability, Environmentalism, Conservation

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.  -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others. Don't miss out on our end of season giveaway that will be announced on social this week!

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. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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, become a sponsor! Visit anchor.fm/trashtalking and click on the link to "Support This Podcast." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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. Sign-up through the TreeCard App. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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 journey and what she hopes to see in our green futures. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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, educates us on how carbon is sequestered into the soil and how she dreams of putting carbon not just on the map but also on all of the future products you buy. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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 intersect. Austin also gives his take and tips on the Christmas Tree industry. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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 clothing from landfill. Just for listeners of the Eco-Warriors Podcast, receive 15% off your first order at renewalworkshop.com using code ECOWARRIORS15. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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-Warriors Podcast makes an impact on you, become a sponsor! Visit anchor.fm/trashtalking and click on the link to "Support This Podcast." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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.” 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 partners. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

“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 Just for listeners of Trash Talking, use code TrashTalking50 for a 50% discount on a digital version of Kate's DIY Sustainability Box Set with purchase of her book "Planting a Seed." Books and box sets must be purchased directly through Kate's website. This week, we're running a giveaway on our Instagram account to win a physical copy of the DIY Sustainable Box Set so head over to our Instagram to win. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

“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. -- 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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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." For as little as $2.99, the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help support the stories we share and help spur more eco-warriors into action. Join the conversation on Facebook and follow us on Instagram. Support us by subscribing, reviewing, and sharing this podcast with others.

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.  -- 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! -- 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.