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061: Experiments in Earth-Conscious Living with Rob Greenfield

061: Experiments in Earth-Conscious Living with Rob Greenfield

FromA Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast


061: Experiments in Earth-Conscious Living with Rob Greenfield

FromA Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Feb 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Rob Greenfield is a world-renowned adventurer and activist and is embarking on his next big project, Food Freedom. Through Rob's extreme projects from cycling across the USA on a bamboo bicycle for sustainability (three times), to dumpster diving in thousands of grocery store dumpsters to raise awareness about food waste and hunger, to wearing 30 days worth of trash to create a visual of how much trash just one American creates, he has inspired countless people to positively change. Rob has been featured on thousands of media outlets around the world, hosted shows on Discovery Channel and has given two TEDx talks. You can see his media page here. In this episode we cover: Rob's journey from nature-loving kid, to materialistic teen, to environmental changemaker Some of Rob's favorite adventures and experiments How his choice to give up his computer caused him to question his impact in the world Rob's best advice for those just getting started in eco-conscious living Rob Greenfield Online: RobGreenfield.tv Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Rob's current project Food Freedom The Trash Me experiment where Rob wore all the trash he produced for 30 days Some of my favorite blog articles by Rob What is My Heart’s Deepest Desire? How to Create an Environmental Activism Campaign One of Rob's bamboo bike tours: Goodfluence Tour Suggestions & Green Resource from Rob: Take 12 hours off from devices each day if you can and go tech-free for 1 full day each week. Learn about Winona LaDuke and other inspiring people at RobGreenfield.tv/people Learn about educational and moving films at RobGreenfield.tv/films Check out the project, film and books from the Story of Stuff Books: Anything by Gandhi and MLK (access Gandhi's writing free at Gandhi Serve Foundation) The Moneyless Man and other books by Mark Boyle
Released:
Feb 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (98)

A Sustainable Mind is a podcast created for the earth-conscious individual, ecopreneur, environmental activist, sustainability enthusiast, grassroots organizer, minimalist, conscious consumer and the eco-curious. If you are looking to get inspired, motivated and take ACTION to be the change you want to see in the world you are in the right place. Delivered to you each week, Marjorie Alexander brings you environmental changemakers whose campaigns, companies and projects have changed the planet for the better. Featured guests discuss their relationship with nature early on, their journey to a green career, light-bulb moments, sustainable habits, lessons from launching their projects, and much more. Each episode ends with ACTIONABLE advice and resources for you to hit the ground running!