Age of Plastic Andrea Fox

Today we hear from Jon Roesser General Manager at Weavers Way Co-Op in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania - a member-owned cooperative grocery. Find out what a food co-op is, what Weavers Way is aiming to do, the tiny percent of food we have to grow, to make a big difference, and what do keep in mind when food shopping to lessen our waste, Organic Fair Trade Bananas and blueberries in winter, climate change and farming!
Weavers Way 
https://weaversway.coop/
Food Co-Ops UK
https://www.sustainweb.org/foodcoops/finder/
Food Co-Ops US
https://coop.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_cooperatives_in_the_United_States
Food Co-Ops Australia 
https://www.localharvest.org.au/learn/food-co-ops-an-introduction/
Sally Nex - Low Carbon Gardening 
https://podfollow.com/age-of-plastic/episode/64868d201f47e28829fb43fb253a615fbc9ab18b/view

Good Climate News
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/25/young-activists-sue-boris-johnson-over-failure-to-tackle-climate-crisis

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Do you have a bin? Today’s guests don’t! Meet the Zero Waste family from San Diego called the Syrens, James, Fredrika and their 3 kids Bella, Noah and Liam.

They worked on an NBC show in October 2021, from Ava DuVernay (behind movies Selma and a Wrinkle In Time) titled Home Sweet Home. 
Find out how they do it, what Fredrika thinks of as green money, raising kids who love veg and James GREAT tip for noticing your waste! 

BOOK: Zero Waste for Families: A Practical Guide
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56048053-zero-waste-for-families


Follow the Syrens
https://www.instagram.com/zero.waste.family/


Home Sweet Home Show
https://www.nbc.com/home-sweet-home


Colin Beavan No Impact Man
https://colinbeavan.com/search-no-impact/


John Muir 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Muir

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What if nothing in your life was single use? If we valued things we own and not send them abroad to be incinerated or pollute other countries?
Last Object co founder and co-designer Isabel Aagaard joins me from Copenhagen to talk about ending our throw away culture.
https://lastobject.com/

Good News
https://news.yahoo.com/pulled-63-000-pounds-trash-100018506.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWNvc2lhLm9yZy8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAImJWCGfsECNdTJ6En5YglY43Rc8rSCvAMgpQ44-fmaSOY7lvJI81E4DH_Uk6LV8PlslCJC2FQiXpXKeYSptXWArlFgdB_3YH7PEzgUaqpaXSLlUMzsmexjjKsPzks0PhGCJrzxei3ndi99MT6L3eDi5-4oPLjlyf5a54kD15CmE

For more on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
https://podfollow.com/age-of-plastic/episode/0326adf11298f11ec949d8a493e084559a5fb9f4/view

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Today's guest is Pierre Paslier, from start up NOTPLA who with co-founder Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez developed this material, Ooho - at Imperial College London. It's an edible flexible plastic replacement which biodegrades and disappears without harm to the environment in a few weeks.

Find out the reasons behind those names NotPLA & Ooho - Piere’s hopes for the p coming COP26, where mushrooms, shrimp shell and coffee bean waste feature in the future of plastic packaging plus some of his experience behind the scenes at plastic producer L’Oreal.
https://www.notpla.com/

Try an Ooho at London's Design Museum
https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/waste-age-what-can-design-do#

We Don’t Have Time
https://www.wedonthavetime.org/event/cop26

Aircarbon Ep
https://podfollow.com/age-of-plastic/episode/22770c30b7dc3a8d9ed66cc3caa41014a8fb32ed/view

Old PPE to New PPE ep
https://podfollow.com/age-of-plastic/episode/be733db75ca1ca1f129a249db7a5dbfebfbe5285/view
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Today’s guest, senior UNEP expert Jacqueline McGlade, spoke to me from Kenya, all about the new UN Plastic Pollution Report published recently.  Jacqueline McGlade is a Marine Biologist, Environmental Science Professor, she’s worked for the European Environment Agency and now for the UN Environmental Programme. 
See the full UN Environmental Programme below;
https://www.unep.org/resources/pollution-solution-global-assessment-marine-litter-and-plastic-pollution

More from Jacqueline on...
Climate Change and Resilience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCaNOU1dS4

Climate and Gender Equality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfHEdWyUaVs

GOOD NEWS STORY
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/plant-based-jet-fuel-could-reduce-emissions-by-68/

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Today’s guest is CEO of EarthKind Energy Consulting & host of the Awesome EarthKind Podcast, which discusses how the forces of nature Earth, Air, Water and the Sun can provide all the energy we need as a planet 1000% over!
Today find out from Ron Kamen, how energy efficient are we? Whats the best flavour of clean energy? Hydro, Solar, Thermal, Tidal or Wind? Whats behind our energy issues at the moment? Carbon capture technology? And what to look for when you pick a clean energy provider, plus the CODEREDCLIMATE campaign!

More on Ron Kamen
https://earthkindenergy.com/
Ron’s Podcast
https://awesomeearthkind.com/podcasts/
The Bay of Fundi in Canada
https://bayoffundytourism.com/worlds-highest-tides/
Reverb 
https://reverb.org/

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