Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

What does it take to scale our positive impacts through business? What are millennials craving today, and how can this actually drive conversations and choices related to sustainability? Founder and CEO of United by Blue, Brian Linton, shares his wisdom with you.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[2:57] What made Brian want to dedicate his life to cleaning up our oceans.

[11:06] Brian: "The beauty of the model is that by focusing on the fundamentals of creating a business, we're able to have a longterm, lasting impact."

[12:08] What keeps Brian going personally, despite challenges.

[12:53] Brian: "What's ultimately going to cure our oceans and waterways is people talking about it, educating their friends, and changing their own behaviors."

[14:00] Kaméa: "What has been key to United by Blue's continuous growth and your ability to establish yourself in the sustainability space?"

[16:50] Some of the most difficult products to manufacture in a more eco-friendly way.

[20:54] Brian's thoughts on our biggest challenge today in fighting plastic pollution.

[21:47] Kaméa: "What's the fastest way to address the issue of single-use plastic?"

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How can we be better communicators so that our important messages actually move people and resonate with our audiences to inspire action? How can we go beyond reducing single-use plastics in our own lives to affecting greater change in actual waste infrastructures for system change? Kathryn Kellogg, creator of GoingZeroWaste.com, actor, and spokesperson for National Geographic's Planet or Plastic Campaign shares her wisdom with you.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[3:34] Kaméa: "Why are endocrine disruptors and toxic chemicals everywhere in our day-to-day lives, like in normal cleaning products?"

[5:40] Kathryn: "You didn't have to be perfect to make a difference. That was something that really resonated with me, and I wanted to share that with others."

[6:50] Kaméa: "What's something from your experience acting that supports your work in building up the zero waste community?"

[7:56] Kathryn's advice for getting our stories to resonate with our audiences.

[9:05] One of Kathryn's favorite (and weirdest!) eco-friendly simple swaps.

[12:30] Kathryn: "When facing rejection, you have to learn how to not take it personally."

[13:08] How Kathryn ended up working with National Geographic.

[13:49] Kathryn: "Showing up is 90% of the battle."

[15:37] Kathryn: "Not everyone has the same amount of access and we have to know that we are all working for a better future."

[16:31] Kaméa: "What do you think are the roots of moral superiority within sustainability?"

[20:30] What we can do as individuals to inspire policy change and help solve waste infrastructure problems.

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What is the Pyrocene, and why do we need to tell a new narrative around fire? How did colonial forms of conservation disrupt Indigenous cultural burning practices, increasing the likelihood of eruptive, destructive fires today?

In light of wildfire season beginning again on the west coast of Turtle Island, we are resharing this pertinent conversation (ep281) with fire historian Stephen Pyne.

About Stephen Pyne

Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University and mostly a fire historian, who has written fire histories for America, Australia, Canada, and Europe (including Russia). The recently published Still-Burning Bush updates his fire survey of Australia.

The song featured in this episode is Only the Truth by Johanna Warren.

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In this episode, we welcome anthropologist Daniel Ruiz-Serna, whose work, situated in the Choco region of Colombia, aims to expose the entanglement of political and ecological violence whereby echoes of conflict/healing reverberate through place. In light of the enmeshment between war and land, Daniel welcomes a framework of living territories, as traced by his life/work with the diversity of human and more-than-human communities of Bajo Atrato, Choco.

Tune in as Daniel invokes questions around: What stories do the land and its respective guardians cry out in the face of ongoing damage—that which exceeds designated categories of violence, and thus, so-called systems of repair? Accordingly, when it comes to human and more-than-human rights, what are the shortcomings of legal justice systems insofar as they fail to consider the life and spirit of territory, as well as those who are inextricably tied to the life of such territory? How might the legal language of “justice” and “repair” be limited by, even tethered to, the roots of oppression? And what kinds of schisms, shifts, and stories are needed to reframe these concepts?

The musical offering featured in this episode When You Carried Me by Oropendola.

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This is a behind-the-scenes conversation with Gabes Torres, a contributor and the program advisor of alchemize, and Green Dreamer's team members Anisa Sima Hawley and Kamea Chayne. We explore the themes of imagination, escapism, dissociation, and discomfort when it comes to dreaming, sensing, relating, and becoming otherwise.

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