Sustainability In Your Ear

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Sustainability In Your Ear: The EARTH911 Podcast, Episode 11 Jul 02, 2018

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This week, the Earth911.com team dives into keeping honeybees at home, as well as what to do when visited by an unwanted swarm. Learn which five jobs are ideal for recent environmental and sustainability grads and how to build a regular recycling routine into your day.
In reader questions, find out what to do when you discover an abandoned tank of freon. It's a banned chemical, but the large white cylinders freon came in before it was discontinued are still lurking out there.

EARTH911 Feeding America Interview 062018 Jun 25, 2018

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Feeding America, the largest food collection and distribution network in the United States, is tackling food waste in a new campaign to get restaurants and grocers to donate food rather than send it to landfills. The MealConnect program seeks to reduce the nearly 50 percent of food wasted between the field and the home. You can encourage local business to participate, as well as volunteer to work in the community. Liz Baldridge, director of Sustainability and Food Waste Initiatives, and Zuani Villareal, director of Communication, at FeedingAmerica.org join us to discuss food waste.

EARTH911: Sustainability In Your Ear for June 18, 2018 Jun 18, 2018

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The Earth911 team talks IKEA's new commitment to sustainable products and removing single-use utensils from its stores, as well as how the United States will upgrade its power grid for renewable energy and the recycling secrets of stealth electronics. We'll also talk through natural alternatives to allergy medicines, the growing awareness that plastic straws are a major form of pollution, and how to recycle mattresses.

EARTH911 Podcast Episode 9: Sustainability In Your Ear for June 11, 2018 Jun 11, 2018

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This week, the Earth911.com team talks about the latest in solar panel technology and the latest Nordic exercise craze, Plogging. It combines jogging and picking up litter. We'll also discuss cutting our travel carbon footprints through the reducing plastic use on airline flights and look ahead to a June race across the Pacific. The all-woman crew of Ripple Effect will try to break the human-powered best time for crossing the Pacific Ocean, straight though the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
This week’s interview is with physicist Peter Fiekowsky, founder of the Health Climate Alliance. Peter and his team have a plan to return global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to 300 parts per million, the same environment our grandparents enjoyed – and they plan to do it in the next 22 years.
And, as always, we’ll be answering questions from Earthlings!

EARTH911 Podcast Episode 8 Jun 04, 2018

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The Earth911 gang will look into the future of plastic-eating bacteria, what eco-conscious travelers should be looking for when considering visits to wildlife experience, and whether a family-owned business is more environmentally friendly than a public company. We also check out the five greenest U.S. cities to visit this year, according to RewardExpert.com
Our interview this week will dig into the future of dirt with Brian Scott, CEO of PittMoss, a recycled paper soil replacement product available now. Brian’s team won Shark Tank funding a couple years ago and is dedicated to reducing the mining of peat for garden use. PittMoss is expanding to build plants close to regional sources of recycled paper.
And, as always, we’ll respond to questions from Earthlings, the smartest readers in the world.

EARTH911.com Podcast: Sustainability In Your Ear, Episode 7 May 28, 2018

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Join Evelyn Lopez and Mitch Ratcliffe to talk recycling and Earth-friendly living. This week, Earth911.com writer Lisa Beres joins the conversation to talk no-stick cookware that is healthy and safe for the environment. Learn how to recycle the backing peeled off stickers and what to do you can and can't do when recycling styrofoam cups, as well as how Amazon's new shipping envelopes are a step in the right direction. We also take a tour of an eco-village and learn what it takes to make the move from new residents.

EARTH911.com Podcast: Sustainability In Your Ear, Episode 6 May 21, 2018

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This week's theme is the Circular Economy, Evelyn Lopez and the Earth911 team talk recycling swords, pet food packaging, and old deck stain and cleaners. You'll hear about Art From Scrap, a project of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Explore Ecology that makes upcycling a citywide activity. We explore the introduction of lab-grown meat, which writer Vic Bondi described as "savory" but not exacly like meat, as well as the relaxation products that are environmentally friendly. Mitch Ratcliffe interviews John Atcheson, cofounder and CEO of Stuffstr, an app that will let you track what you buy at a retailer and resell it later at the touch of a button.

EARTH911 Podcast: Sustainability In Your Ear -- May 14, 2018 May 13, 2018

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Join the Earth911.com team for this week's conversation about sustainability and recycling! In the news: California mandates solar in new homes; The recycling mystery left by Lance Armstrong, silicone bracelets; Nine flowers that protect the environment, and; The hot new Earthling sporting, Earthing -- it's an alternative to fishing that will change the way you look at lakes and wetlands.
We talk with CSRHub.com Cofounder & CEO Cynthia Figge about the growing wave of sustainability and social responsibility information that investors and consumers can use to make decisions that support the Earth. Full environmental lifecycle transparency is coming.
And, of course, questions from Earthlings! This week, we talk automotive oil and fluids recycling and the difference between single-use and rechargeable batteries when it's time to recycle. Join the Earthling conversation.

EARTH911 Podcast Episode 4 May 07, 2018

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This week, the Earth911.com team explains how you can help save the Monarch Butterfly, cut your energy use and lower the power bill, and recirculate your old running shoes. We talk with artist Aviva Rahmani, whose "Blued Trees Symphony" started a national movement to block pipeline development with natural art installations in wetlands and forests using Copyright law. Also, Reader Questions about recycling railroad ties, flooring and carpet, and those pesky plastic shopping bags.

EARTH911 Podcast Episode 3 May 02, 2018

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Join the Earth911 gang to talk about Earth-conscious buying decisions, learn how to recycle ice cream containers, lower your carbon footprint when getting around town, and our interview with PATHWater, which just launched a bottled water that comes in a reusable aluminum bottle to fight plastics pollution. Also, this week's reader recycling questions!

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