Eco-Warriors Podcast | Sustainability, Environmentalism, Conservation

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

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

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

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

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

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

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

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

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

Resources Fran mentions during this episode:

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

If you'd like to connect with Fran directly, you can find her on Facebook.

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

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

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

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

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

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

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

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

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

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

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

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

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

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

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

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

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

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

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Resources mentioned in this show:

• Rob Greenfield

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

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

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Resources mentioned in this show:

• Naomi Klein
• Jane Goodall
• Elizabeth Kolbert
• Tomorrow

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If there’s an eco-warrior you think has a story that would inspire others, email me at [email protected].

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

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

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

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