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Mrs. Green's World
by The Green Divas
Mrs. Green offers simple, creative ways to adopt green habits that benefit individuals, families and companies, and are good for the planet. Everyone from retired chemical engineers to design-school millennials appreciate her authentic and entertaining style of communication.
Episodes
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Scaling Equitable Climate Policy
Mrs. Green speaks with David W. Orr – Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and senior adviser to the president of Oberlin College. The Oberlin Project started as a joint effort of the City of Oberlin, Oberlin College, and private and institutional partners to...
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First-order Concerns in Earth Sciences
Mrs. Green talks with Joaquin Ruiz who wears many hats besides Dean of the College of Science including Vice President of Innovation and Strategy; Executive Dean, Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science; and Professor of Geosciences. As a scientist with equal abilities in chemistry and in geology,...
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Campaigns for Change
Mrs. Green talks with Danna Moore Pfahl, Director of Advocacy, Catalytik. The organization and guest are on the cutting edge of ideas and a stand for advancing human progress as well as building sustainable solutions to major societal issues. Danna has ten years experience advancing environment...
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Shaping A New World
Mrs. Green speaks with Greg Watson, Schumacher Center’s Director for Policy and Systems Design; Cuba-U.S. Agroecology Network, and thought leader for public voices. Introducing new programs while linking together the various educational and applied community economics programs of the Schumacher...
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What is El Nino?
Just what is El Nino? Mrs. Green talks to Zack Guido, Program Manager University of Arizona International Research and Application Program (IRAP) and Mike Crimmins, Associate Professor in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science and Climate Science Extension Specialist for Arizona...
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Art Speaks: Nuclear Energy
Mrs. Green talks with Mary Lou Dauray, award winning artist & consummate traveler, whose artwork reflects her concern about man-made climate destruction. She has done a series of paintings about plastic pollution in the oceans, the melting of glacial ice and the mining, transporting and burning…
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Fashion Giant with a Conscience
Join Mrs. Green while she speaks with Amy Hall, Director of Social Consciousness at EILEEN FISHER. While 97% of all garments in the US are made elsewhere, they produce 20% of their fashion in Los Angeles and New York. Because of their use of organic fibers, they are supporting clean air, clean...
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Live well, stay well
Mrs. Green talks with Carey Davidson, Founder and CEO Tournesol Wellness, and what the future of health care might look like. It is a home for highly personalized and compassionate care. Their services range from a comprehensive body-mind-spirit health assessment to vibration and sound therapy,...
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Dream big, live tiny
If you have ever wondered if you could make the leap from normal size house to tiny house, I AM sure that you are going to love this show with Ross Beck, of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. In 1999, the first Tumbleweed was mounted on a trailer. The RV was named Tumbleweed because it had roots...
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Making Green Happen
Mrs. Green speaks with Deborah Fleischer, Founder and President of Green Impact. Think authentic, creative, professional, connecting to deeper values, inspiring green actions. These are a few of the things that Green Impact stands for. This organization has a REAL passion for moving organizations...
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Rethinking Fashion
Mrs. Green speaks with Sass Brown, founder of EcoFashion Talk, author, editor for Coco Eco Fashion Magazine and Acting Associate Dean, School of Art & Design, Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. As a researcher, writer and blogger, her area of expertise is eco fashion, in all of its...
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Planting the seed for urban farming
Mrs. Green speaks with Will Allen, Farmer, Founder and CEO of Growing Power. Will is recognized as a preeminent practitioner of urban agriculture in America and throughout the world. He grew up on a small farm in Maryland, the second-youngest of six children of a sharecropper. His father had a...
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Protecting You from Toxic Chemicals
Mrs. Green talks with Michael Green, Executive Director for the Center of Environmental Health who, about ten years ago, founded the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) to raise public awareness of the corporate use of toxic chemicals and of the many viable, pragmatic solutions to this…
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Clothes that Fit Your Morals
Mrs. Green speaks with Scott Leonard and Matt Reynolds, Co-Founders of Indigenous. In this case, Indigenous is synonymous with organic, fair trade, ethically sourced and guilt free clothing. The backstory: On a trip to South America back in 1993, Scott encountered the priceless beauty of clothes...
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Change the Story, Change the Future
Mrs. Green interviews David C. Korten, an American author, lecturer, engaged citizen, former professor of the Harvard Business School, political activist, prominent critic of corporate globalization, and "by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems." Imagine an...
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Women vs. Toxic Chemicals
Mrs. Green talks with Erin Switalski, Executive Director, Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), formed by a group of visionary women leaders in Missoula, Montana in 1995. Seeing that many environmental organizations at the time failed to include women in leadership positions and did not fully...
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Green Investing: What's Your Strategy?
How green is your investing? What do you know about the growing Divest-Invest movement gaining speed all over the country and moving millions of dollars? Will Social Security be there to sustain you in your golden years? Mrs. Green talks with Timothy Yee, President & Co-Founder of Green…
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This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge
Mrs. Green speaks with one of her heroes, Tzeporah Berman, author of the book This Crazy Time, who has been designing and winning environmental campaigns in Canada and internationally for 20 years. Ms. Berman currently works as a strategic advisor for dozens of environmental organizations, First...
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Water Changes Everything
Mrs. Green talks with Scott Harrison, Founder and CEO of charity: water, a former nightclub promoter in New York City who left his career to work on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, West Africa as a volunteer photojournalist. Returning home to New York City two years later, he founded…
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Business Change Agent
Mrs. Green talks with Mal Warwick - author, impact investor, and activist who reviews books on his blog and is one of three partners in the One World Play Project, a social enterprise he helped establish in Berkeley, California. One World Futbol manufactures and distributes a virtually...
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David Yeung - Green Monday
Mrs. Green learns from David Yeung, Co-founder of Green Monday, about Green Monday - a social enterprise group that promotes and enables green, healthy and sustainable living. Through his vegetarian promotion and food rescue initiatives, Green Monday has become a world leading platform that…
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Michael Shuman
Mrs. Green talks with Michael Shuman, an economist, attorney, author and entrepreneur, and one of the world’s leading experts on community economics. He has authored, coauthored or edited eight books and is a founding member of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies). Michael has…
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Ira Flatow
Mrs. Green interviews Ira Flatow, veteran NPR science correspondent and award-winning TV journalist. He is the host of Science Friday radio show, a weekly call-in program that engages listeners and scientists in lively conversation about science, technology and environment issues in the news. Ira...
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Stephen Ritz on greener education
Mrs. Green speaks with Stephen Ritz - educator, innovator, social entrepreneur, keynote speaker and overall ROCK STAR. He believes that we can grow ourselves into new opportunity and academic success by growing healthy kids, healthy food, and healthy communities. He has helped to create blocks…
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Maria Rodale
Mrs. Green speaks with Maria Rodale, Chairman & CEO, Rodale Institute, who is not only an activist in the world of healthy eating, she is a businesswoman who has made promoting the benefits of an organic lifestyle both her personal mission and her business. Maria joined the Rodale Institute in...
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American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
Mrs. Green interviews Steven Nadel, Executive Director American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), who has worked in the energy efficiency field for more than 30 years and has over 100 publications. He has testified many times before Congress on energy efficiency subjects and also...
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The Nature Conservancy: Global Marine Team,
Mrs. Green interviews Michael W. Beck, Lead Scientist, Global Marine Team, The Nature Conservancy, who works on the interface between marine science and policy on marine spatial planning, habitat restoration, and coral reef conservation in temperate and tropical regions. His work increasingly...
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Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
Mrs. Green talks with Janet Nudelman, Director of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and Director of Program and Policy, Breast Cancer Fund about how their organization works to prevent breast cancer by eliminating our exposure to toxic chemicals and radiation linked to the disease. They are bold and...
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Bridgitte Alomes, Natural Pod
In her interview with Bridgitte Alomes, Founder, Natural Pod, Mrs. Green discovers why Bridgitte is on a mission to make non-toxic and natural play synonymous. Natural Pod’s compelling vision, innovative award-winning products, passion and commitment for natural play sets them apart from any…
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Revolution - The Movie
Mrs. Green interviews director Rob Stewart who believes in the earth, life and that 3.5 billion years of evolution has created a world of unmatched productivity and diversity, perfect for humans and that by undoing the damage wrought by short sighted human expansion, earth can once again be...
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Geoengineering Watch
Mrs. Green interviews Dane Wigington, GeoEngineering Watch, who has a passion for what he is doing. Geoengineering is the artificial modification of Earth’s climate systems through two primary ideologies, Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR.) Dane and his organization...
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Mrs. Green's World: Hawaiian Volcanic Water
Mrs. Green speaks with Waiakea Hawaiian Volcanic Water CEO, Ryan Emmons. Waiakea is the first Hawaiian bottled water to be certified carbon neutral. The water is naturally filtered through thousands of feet of porous volcanic rock that give it many health benefits. Find out just what those…
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Mrs. Green's World: Tears in the Jungle
Mrs. Green speaks with William and Daniel Clarke about their vision to save the orangutans of Borneo and Sumatra. Their mission is to create greater awareness of the issues facing the orangutan and their habitat, to empower children and adults to make a difference and to raise funds to help save...
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Mrs. Geen's World: Seth Godin
Seth Godin, bestselling author, DAILY blogger, entrepreneur, marketer, public speaker, and thought leader. Mrs. Green has read Seth Godin’s blogs every single day for over 8 years. She speaks with Seth, who works diligently and tenaciously to change the world one inspirational word after the…
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Mrs. Green's World: Life Without Plastic
Mrs. Green talks with Jay Sinha, Co-founder and Co-Owner of Life Without Plastic, whose tagline is: one-stop shop for safe, high quality, ethically-sourced, Earth-friendly alternatives to plastic products for everyday life. The story of the founders, Jay and Chantal, is really about people and...
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Mrs. Green's World: Project Animal Farm
Mrs. Green talks with author Sonia Faruqi whose book, Project Animal Farm, is about an accidental journey into the secret world of farming and the truth about our food. Straight from the preview on Amazon: “Born out of a global expedition fearlessly undertaken by a young woman, Project Animal…
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Mrs. Green's World: Megan Kimble
Mrs. Green interviews author Megan Kimble who, at twenty-six while living in a small apartment without even a garden plot to her name, decided to go an entire year without eating processed foods. Her book, Unprocessed, is the narrative of Megan’s extraordinary year, in which she milled wheat,...
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Mrs. Greens World: Rodale Institute
Mrs. Green interviews Coach Mark Smallwood, Rodale Institute's Executive Director - an organization in action. Since 1947, they have been committed to growing a future that will nourish and sustain generations to come – a future built upon rich, healthy soil and into which they can sink their...
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Mrs. Green's World: Defending the Arctic
Mrs. Green talks with Mary Nichol, National Activist Network Director at Greenpeace, about the dangers of Arctic oil drilling. Nichol has climbed oil rigs to obstruct operations, mobilized nearly three million people and celebrated as major oil companies backed off plans to drill in the Arctic....
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Mrs. Green's World: Kathleen Rogers
Kathleen Rogers, President, Earth Day Network, has worked for more than 20 years as an environmental attorney and advocate focusing on international and domestic environmental public policy and law. Rogers shares with Mrs. Green her views on engaging low-income communities, why green schools…
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Mrs. Green's World: Plastic Pollution
The Plastic Pollution Coalition is working to help END our cycle of plastics use - yes - END! Mrs. Green talks with Dianna Cohen who was inspired to co-found the group by her work as an artist because her chosen material is the ubiquitous plastic bag. With the Plastic Pollution Coalition, she…
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Mrs. Green's World: Produce Mom
Mrs. Green talks with Lori Taylor, who launched The Produce Mom® in January 2012, the official blog and consumer brand of Indianapolis Fruit Company. The blog is authored by Supermom and Marketing Manager, Lori Taylor. The Produce Mom blog is based on Lori’s professional and personal life and is…
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Mrs. Green's World: Fed Up
For the past 30 years, everything we thought we knew about food and exercise is dead wrong. Laurie David, author of The Family Dinner, Oscar-winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth, and outstanding thought leader in our time, shares another shocker with Mrs. Green. FED UP, the Movie, the…
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Good Food on a Budget
Mrs. Green interviews Dawn Undurraga, Nutritionist, Environmental Working Group, who has witnessed first-hand how our current food system affects people’s lives. Dawn is committed to shaping policies for a more sustainable and healthful future. EWG shows us how to stretch our dollars to get a...
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Mommy Greenest, Rachel Lincoln-Sarnoff
Mrs. Green interviews Rachel Lincoln-Sarnoff, also known as "Mommy Greenest", a rapidly growing resource for healthier parenting with less judgment. Former CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World and editor of Children magazine, Rachel now has three children of her own. Designer of Bird in Hand…
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Mrs. Green's World: Palm Oil
Did you know that palm oil is the MOST consumed edible oil today? Mrs. Green talks with 3 students from the University of Arizona about its versatility, and how the demand worldwide has tripled over the last few decades. Palm oil is cheap and often substituted for cocoa butter and is semi-solid…
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Mrs. Green's World: Richard Louv
Mrs. Green interviews Richard Louv, Children and Nature Network (CNN), to learn about their vision - a world in which ALL children play, learn and grow with nature in their everyday lives. The CNN is leading the movement to connect all children, their families and communities through innovative...
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Mrs. Green's World: Patricia Davis
Mrs. Green speaks with Patricia Davis, Creator of Consumers Against Toxic Apparel, about toxic clothing, about synthetic fibers, how the fashion industry deceives consumers, and about green washing AND white washing tactics. Tune in to learn about the link between chemicals on our clothing and…
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Mrs. Green's World: John Farrell
Mrs. Green talks with John Farrell, Director of Democratic Energy, widely known as the guru of distributed energy. He is best known for his vivid illustrations of the economic and environmental benefits of local ownership of decentralized renewable energy. His data rich research shows that most...
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Mrs. Green's World: Back to the Roots
In Mrs. Green's interview with Nikhil, she learns that he and his friend and now business partner Alejandro Velez, were only a few months away from graduation at UC Berkley when they heard that they could grow gourmet mushrooms on recycled coffee grounds. Inspired by the idea of turning waste…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Mrs. Green offers simple, creative ways to adopt green habits that benefit individuals, families and companies, and are good for the planet. Everyone from retired chemical engineers to design-school millennials appreciate her authentic and entertaining style of communication.
HOSTED BY
The Green Divas
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