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Locals Share Green Action
by GOGREENLOCALLY ORG, 501c3 nonprofit
People share stories of their impactful, planet-friendly work within their local communities, showcasing the unique paths they've taken in green action. Through a range of projects, jobs, businesses, volunteer roles, studies, and careers, they demonstrate how they've applied their talents and interests to make a difference.Their journeys are both inspiring and insightful, offering valuable perspectives on overcoming challenges. These stories encourage and guide us all as we explore ways to get involved in our own local green communities.
Episodes
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Greening Urban Spaces - Neelam Patil, Green Pocket Forests, Program Director
Imagine a small patch of land, at a school, in a park, or even a vacant city lot, transforming into a thriving forest in just a few years. In this episode, we explore how Miyawaki forests are turning everyday spaces into vibrant, living ecosystems with the help of dedicated organizers and…
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Resigning Heirloom Bridal Gowns - Meranda Crosby - Herstory Bridal and Design
What if your wedding dress could carry generations of love and reflect who you are today? In this episode, we sit down with Meranda Crosby, founder of Herstory Bridal and Design and The Shoppe at Hillcrest in Reno, Nevada. Meranda helps brides redesign wedding gowns passed down through…
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Non-Chemical Invasive Plant Removal - Mike Bald - Got Weeds?
In this episode, we’re joined by Mike Bald, founder and owner of Got Weeds?, based in central Vermont. Mike has spent many years working in terrestrial invasive species management, but his approach is far from the traditional “spray and kill” mindset. Instead of quick fixes, Mike works with the...
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Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank Online Marketplace, Amy Kousch, Outreach Liason
In this episode, we spotlight the Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank (MARSB) and the critical role it plays in strengthening native plant supply chains, supporting regenerative land management, and protecting regional biodiversity. We explore how MARSB is working to better connect native plant...
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Campus Recycling & Sustainability Leadership – Tara Pike, UNLV Sustainability Coordinator
In this episode, we talk with Tara Pike, the founder of the Rebel Recycling Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and the university’s first Sustainability Coordinator. Tara has spent nearly three decades leading sustainability efforts on campus and across Southern Nevada,...
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Organizing a Community Kids Clothing Swap Event, Ally Marielle
In this episode, we chat with Ally Marielle, the driving force behind “Aydan & Ally’s First Annual Baby & Kids Clothing Swap” in Hillsdale, NJ. Ally took it upon herself to organize this event to help moms in her community swap gently used baby and kids' clothes. After four months of collecting…
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Achieve Your Purpose – Inner Magnet - Kevin Stratmann, Founder
In this episode, we sit down with Kevin Stratmann, the visionary behind the Inner Magnet process, a transformative approach that has revolutionized executive and corporate coaching. With over 25 years of experience, Kevin shares his innovative methods for unlocking focus, optimizing energy, and...
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From Wasteland to Wonder: A Conversation with Basil Camu on Reforestation and Healing the Earth
In this episode, we reconnect with Basil Camu, the visionary behind Leaf and Limb and Project Pando, two impactful organizations based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Basil shares his journey and insights on cultivating and distributing free native trees for reforestation across urban, suburban, and...
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Eco-Restoration with Miyawaki Forests – Maya Dutta with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
Join us for an illuminating episode of the “Locals Share Green Living” podcast as we delve into the transformative realm of eco-restoration through the lens of Miyawaki forests. In this episode, we are privileged to be joined by Maya Dutta, a trailblazer in ecological restoration, as she shares...
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Code Enforcement and Town Mgmt. – Richard Fisher, a Career in Environmental Protection
In this episode, we sit down with Richard, affectionately known as Rick, whose career in environmental protection and public service spans over three decades. Starting in 1988 with RKR Hess Associates, Rick's expertise in percolation testing and more led him to establish Fisher Environmental...
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Regenerative Agriculture & Wildland Restoration – Mother Tree Food & Forest – William Wildcat Coakee
William Wildcat Coakee is the founder and Executive Director of Mother Tree Food & Forest, drawing upon a rich background that began in the Oklahoma Seminole Nation. His lifelong commitment to organic gardening since childhood, followed by extensive experience in organic farming and a decade of...
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Environmental Remediation Scientist & Community Volunteer - Samantha Waldron
Samantha Waldron, an unwavering champion of environmental causes and a dynamic member of her community, has woven her passion for nature into the very fabric of her life's journey. Her profound connection with the natural world took root in her formative years, nurtured by the profound influence…
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Planetary Regeneration With Permaculture - Sam Parker Davies & Luca Kerschhackl
Sam Parker Davies has worked in every climate worldwide, with a variety of people including billionaires, refugees, and government officials, working in deserts and forests. As an educator, designer, aid worker, project manager, and farmer, he is on the front line of planetary regeneration…
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Reuse Artist - Carla Brown - Trashmagination Podcast
Carla Brown is a creative reuse artist who had a podcast called Trashmagination, where she produced, recorded, and hosted 125 episodes on how to creatively reuse a huge number of different recycled materials. The podcast is on hiatus, but past episodes are still being accessed, and she is…
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The Art & Science of Microbe-Rich Compost - Keisha & Casey Ernst – Workshops, Production, & Sales
Keisha & Casey Ernst have been focusing on soil regeneration and habitat restoration as a team since 2011. They have studied under Dr. Elaine Ingham over the past eight years and worked alongside her on many projects. In 2018 Catalyst BioAmendments was founded as an experimental and...
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Vegetable Farming & Soil Health Education – William DeMille, Author & Instructor
William DeMille is a lifelong vegetable farmer. William studied for two years of Horticulture and Agronomy at Northwest Missouri University, Maryville. He holds two certificates in aquaponic engineering and production from Cornell University NY, and from GrowHaus Aquaponics, in CO. He also...
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Green Home Coach – Marla Esser Cloos
Marla Esser Cloos is the principal of Green Home Coach with 15+ years working with green certified homes and projects and applying the knowledge gained through her accreditations - NAHB Master Certified Green Professional, LEED AP, NAR Green Designee and Wellness Within Your Walls Certified...
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Regenerative Farming/Ranching – Jared Sorenson - Support & Coaching
Jared and Selena have been married for 27 years and are the parents of nine children and one grandchild. As 3rd generation ranchers, they are managing the operation that Jared’s grandfather and father built in Secret Pass and Clover Valley, Nevada. Jared is a lifelong learner and has not only…
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Max Stadnyk's Journey to Rammed Earth Construction
Max Stadnyk is a multifaceted individual with a wealth of diverse experiences and skills. As a Planetary Steward, Leader in Natural Regenerative Building Design, Project Manager, and Master Rammed Earth Builder and Instructor, he has dedicated his career to finding sustainable and eco-friendly...
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Food Justice Solutions - Laura Mirafuentes - The Local Food Group Minnesota
The Food Group Minnesota is not your typical food pantry. Yet that is where they started originally over 40 years ago. They provide excellent examples of ways that community organizations can take a much larger role in addition to meeting immediate hunger-fighting needs. The Food Group Minnesota...
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Environmental Lobbyist – Bainy Suri – Eco Community Solutions, New Jersey
Bainy Suri is the CEO and Founder of Eco Community Solutions. She is a grassroots activist, an attorney, and a mother to her son Kai. For the past eleven years, she has worked on social and environmental justice issues in Princeton, across Mercer County, and the State of New Jersey. As a...
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Healthy Eating Education & Farming - Kerin Gould – Author of “Produce With A Purpose”
Healthy Eating Education & Farming - Kerin Gould – Author of “Produce With A Purpose” Kerin Gould has a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Health and a PhD in Native American Studies. She has worked with food-related non-profits, but eventually focused on developing her own sustainable,...
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Native Trees Grown to Give Away – “Project Pando”, Basil Camu, Founder
Basil Camu is the co-owner of a local tree care company called Leaf & Limb located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Basil is also the founder of a nonprofit volunteer-driven tree nursery that grows native trees sustainably to give away to the public at no cost. The project is seeking to support...
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Support for Environmentalists - Don Pierce, Heartwood Path Online Courses/Books
Don Pierce has spent nearly his whole life working to protect the environment. After decades of work as a professional environmentalist, Don concluded that a new approach––one focused on the environmentalist and not just the environment––was needed. When famed conservationist David Brower asked…
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Families for a Livable Climate – Winona Bateman, Founding Director
Winona Bateman is the director of Families for a Livable Climate in Missoula, Montana. They are seeking to connect people for shared action through local family-friendly events that help take action that ensures a livable future for all. Their vision includes a healthy home planet, connected...
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Multi-media Stories – T. Addison Brown, Emerging World Co-Founder
Multi-media Stories – T. Addison Brown, Emerging World Co-Founder T. Addison Brown creates multi-media stories as a fundamental and immersive form of communication that intends to engage on an intuitive and sensory level. Guided by Buddhist teachings her activities have emphasize on safeguarding...
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Lara Tomov, Director/Founder of “Stories for Action”, a Media Hub for Positive Change
Lara Tomov has always been drawn to sharing experiences with others to connect people and place. She has worked in the film and television world for over a decade, primarily as a cinematographer. This work has taken her around the world, from peaks to ocean depths, for documentaries and…
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Restoring the Environment - We Plant It Forward – Maggie Bailey
Maggie Bailey is the founder and President of We Plant it Forward in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Mission of We Plant it Forward is to preserve and restore the natural environment for the benefit of future generations by providing trees, tools, and help as well as hands-on activities, community...
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Urban Wood Rescue Program - Jennifer Szeliga and Jonathan Gibbs
Today on our podcast we speak with two people from a nonprofit organization that facilitates the stewardship of urban trees in a large city, including a program that facilitates the use of the wood from trees that have to be removed from around the city because of disease, end-of-it’s lifecycle…
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Permaculture Educators & Homesteaders - Zia Energetics Permaculture, Jesse and Johanna Boudreau
Jesse and Johanna Boudreau have been operating Zia Energetics Permaculture as a family business for over 20 years. They create their livelihood as homesteaders, foragers, market growers, mushroom cultivators, beekeepers, cob builders, urban forestry and as herbalists. They share their wide range…
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Wildlife Biologist, Conservation Photographer, & Graphic Artist, Kaitie Schneider – Understory Studio
Kaitie Schneider is a wildlife conservation biologist and educator for Boulder County Parks and Open Space, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Blue Turtle Sustainable. In her free time, she runs her own business as a digital artist and photographer for environmental organizations and...
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Threads of Green: Thrifted Fashion Show & FOMENO app - Annie Lien & Wynter Childers
In this episode we have the honor of meeting two young women that are holding a unique local South Dakota event. “Threads of Green” is a thrifted fashion show being held in a unique venue, to raise money for good causes and roll out a new thrifted clothing sustainable fashion website and app that...
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Buy Nothing Project Groups, Casey Shiver and Liz McFarland - Local Group Admins
Casey Shiver has been a member of the Buy Nothing Project’s Central Reno group for a couple of years now and started volunteering as an admin in February of 2021. She works full time for UNR, is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Higher Education Administration and spends much of her free...
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Science & the Soul of Soil Classes - Ragan Sutterfield - Christ Episcopal Church
Ragan Sutterfield is a priest and associate at Christ Episcopal Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. His writings have appeared in a variety of places including The Christian Century, Sojourners, The Oxford American, Plough Online, and The Englewood Review of Books. Ragan's writing and interests are...
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Faulkner County Library – Urban Farm Project - Zack McCannon
Zack McCannon is the Urban Farm Project Garden Programmer for the Faulkner County Library, Conway, Arkansas. The Urban Farm Project began in the spring of 2010 as a gardening competition between three local colleges. As students and professors turned lawns into thriving gardens it transformed…
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Upcycling Clothing Class – Nina Littrell – Instructor with Rightfully Sewn, Kansas City, MO
Nina Littrell is a graduate of Kansas City Art Institute where she studied textiles and garment construction. She is a Kansas City based fashion designer that, among other classes, is teaching “Deconstruction/Reconstruction” an upcycling garments class offered at Rightfully sewn where students…
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Director, Farmer, & Councilwoman Casey McAuliffe - Galveston’s Own Farmers Market, Moon Dog Farms, and City of La Marque
Under Casey’s leadership, Galveston’s Own Farmers Market has increased food-access among high-risk populations on Galveston Island through implementation of SNAP, specialty WIC programming, free cooking classes and a rapidly-growing school gardens program. Since 2017, Casey has also served as a...
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Non-Toxic Neighborhoods – Kim Konte, the Founding Member
Kim Konte is the founding member of Nontoxic Neighborhoods, an organization that helps neighborhoods transition to organic and regenerative methods of care in public and private areas of the city. They do this in a hands-on and collaborative way by supporting city staff, landscape contractors…
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Zero Waste Professional Organizer - Next Highest Good’s Founder - Lauren Winters West
Lauren Winters West is the Founder and Chief Expert Organizer at Next Highest Good. As far back as she can remember, Lauren has enjoyed decluttering and organizing spaces for friends and family. She began organizing professionally after more than 20 years in a wide breadth of job capacities...
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Life Over Lawns Plantr App – founder Shane Davis – Connecting Homeowners to Professionals – to Design, Grow and Maintain Edible Perennial Food Forests
Shane Davis the founder of Plantr in Eugene, Oregon. While in the Marine Corp, Shane traveled the world as part of the President lift squadron which provided global special mission airlift, logistics, and communications for two presidents through 5 countries and over 20 states. After his time in...
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Using Software & Science to Help Local Gardens/Farm Systems - Austin Arrington – Helping Nature & Humans Connect
Austin Arrington is a software developer, scientist, and entrepreneur working on systems to help humans and nature connect and thrive. Austin brings sustainable technologies and systems to market, from green roofs and urban farms, to soil sensors, automation, and machine learning. He is a…
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Cuauhtemoc Landeros – Nurturing Soil Biology & SymSoil
Cuauhtemoc Landeros has worked and lived in multiple area of California and Mexico. He is academically and physically engaged in the fields of sustainable landscaping, organic farming, permaculture, agro-ecology, soil food web biology, Korean natural farming, and Permaculture. He was part of a...
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Sustainable Urban Mushroom Farming & Local Environmental Nonprofit – Farmer & Founder - Walker Sauls, Reno, NV
Walker Sauls, in Reno, NV, is the founder of the nonprofit GreenVibe World and the urban mushroom farm called Biggest Little Mushrooms. After Walker Sauls completed his Bachelors of Science degree in Environmental Science he founded the nonprofit while living in Oregon. Later when he moved to…
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Mobile Food Market & Multiple Producer CSA – Karaline Griffin – Reno Mobile Market
Karaline is a marketing professional turned food advocate. With over 12 years of experience in digital marketing and advertising, Karaline has let her passion lead her to what matters most: food, and supporting a local food system! Originally from the Midwest, Karaline is a huge proponent of…
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Growing the Localization Movement – Anja Lyngbaek, Associate Programs Director – Local Futures an International Nonprofit
Anja Lyngbaek, is the Associate Programs Director with Local Futures an international nonprofit dedicated to renewing ecological, social, and spiritual well-being by shifting away from dependence on global monopolies, and towards decentralized local and regional economies. Anja holds a bachelors…
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Homestead, Local Food, Homemade Skin Products & Eco Tourism - Kara-Ann Miller - Stony Rose Homestead, Stone Ridge, NY
Kara and her family started Stony Rose Homestead as a conscious effort to ensure their family was enjoying the healthiest food possible. From a few bee hives and chickens, they added no-till farming and all with the goal of providing delicious food for both family and community using sustainable...
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Photographer & Promoter of Local Sustainable Farms – Rachelle Lerude
Rachelle LeRude spent two years traveling to various farms capturing beautiful images of organic and sustainable young farms & farmers in Northern California. She wanted to personally meet the individuals of “her own generation who are choosing to be stewards of the land.” In that process she...
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Design & Local Manufacturing Upcycled Textiles – Christina Johnson – Upcycle It Now Company– Long Beach, CA
Upcycle It Now, was born out of a shared entrepreneurial spirit to become sustainability change agents by partnering with textile companies to upcycle their textile waste into beautiful, high quality, and functional products. Christina obtained her degree at UC Davis and headed to India for an...
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Goat Affection Yoga Therapy – Amanda Avery - Hux Family Farm, Durham, NC
Hux Family Farm is a small 4-acre sustainable homestead that has grown into a local space for healing with animals. They offer everything from goat yoga to kid’s programs. With a mission of bringing smiles and healing souls, they want to bring joy and peace to as many lives as possible while…
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Community Education Coordinator – Kim Rios, KTMB nonprofit, Reno, NV
Kim Rios has a strong passion for environmental activism and education. She obtained her degree in environmental policy at the University of Nevada, Reno, but discovered a predilection for education after spending four years teaching overseas. Kim came to Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful (KTMB) as…
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People share stories of their impactful, planet-friendly work within their local communities, showcasing the unique paths they've taken in green action. Through a range of projects, jobs, businesses, volunteer roles, studies, and careers, they demonstrate how they've applied their talents and interests to make a difference.Their journeys are both inspiring and insightful, offering valuable perspectives on overcoming challenges. These stories encourage and guide us all as we explore ways to get involved in our own local green communities.
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GOGREENLOCALLY ORG, 501c3 nonprofit
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