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S2 - Denise Hamler - Green America

Greener by Choice - February 11, 2017 16:58 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Joining us is Denise Hamler from  Green America. An organization who's vision is to work for a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where the bounty of the Earth is preserved for all the generations to come. www.GreenAmerica.org

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63: Christina O’Brien, Sustainable Architecture

Greener by Choice - February 25, 2015 08:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Today’s conversation is with Christina O’Brien from SISR Architecture located in Marlow, NH. They provide sustainable building solutions for a healthy environment, innovative planning and design ideas, and socially Responsive answers and advice to their clients' questions.

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62: Boston Hospital Saves Thousands by Going Green

Greener by Choice - February 18, 2015 08:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA demonstrates that it is possible to operate a top notch hospital while also going green. With a lot of people that want to do what’s right. Changing how things are done. It comes down to scrutinizing every choice and purchase for the right r...

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61: Reduce Paper Waste at Work

Greener by Choice - February 12, 2015 14:10 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Did you know the average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year. That’s a total of nearly 3.7 million tons of copy paper used annually in the U.S. and it translates to over 700 billion sheets. Discover some simple ways to reduce your paper usage at work.

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60: What does it mean to be a Humaneitarian?

Greener by Choice - January 14, 2015 08:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Let’s talk about what it means to be a Humaneitarian. Basically a Humaneitarian is a person who eats meat from humanely raised animals.   If you like to eat meat but also care about the treatment of farm animals, you’re in good company. A growing number of meat eaters are turning away from fac...

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59: 11 Easy Ways to Green Up your Holiday's and Keep the World a Happy Jolly Place

Greener by Choice - December 17, 2014 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Studies reveal that each year between Thanksgiving and Christmas waste in the U.S. increases 25%. That means more than 1 million tons of additional waste is generated each week nationwide over this holiday time. Here are 11 key ways your can reduce your holiday impact and add less waste to your ...

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58: Why are you shopping this holiday season?

Greener by Choice - December 10, 2014 13:50 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Why are you spending so much time out shopping this holiday season? That’s a silly question,  cause you love your family and friends and want to buy them special gifts they can cherish for years to come.   But would you agree, it’s also important to buy from reputable companies that treat thei...

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57: 8 Easy ways to enjoy a green and grateful Thanksgiving

Greener by Choice - November 25, 2014 14:45 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Thanksgiving is upon us and folks will be coming together to celebrate. As you give thanks for all the amazing people and things in your life; family, friends, health, employment, etc., remember to also give thanks for Mother Nature and the amazing world around us. After all without the environm...

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56: Hergonomics™ with Ann Adams and Liz Brensinger

Greener by Choice - November 19, 2014 08:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Talking Hergonomics™ with Ann Adams and Liz Brensinger owners of Green Heron Tools. Discover why these tools designed specially for women are easiest, safest, more comfortable, and most effective for women.   Let’s Face it, Women’s bodies are different from men’s and our tools should be, too. ...

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55: 5 Different Ways to Invest in Renewable Energy

Greener by Choice - November 04, 2014 08:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Joining us today is Tam Hunt, owner of Community Renewable Solutions, a consultancy and law firm specializing in community-scale renewables.   I came across his article 5 different ways to invest in renewable energy at green tech media.com and thought it would be a great topic for us to learn ...

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54-Ok Ladies, No more mooning everyone around you just cause you need to pee.

Greener by Choice - October 28, 2014 07:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Ok Ladies, No more mooning everyone around you just cause you need to pee. Join us today is Krista Eickmann promoter and distributor of the PStyle. This revolutionary invention allows women and trans men to stand up and pee without removing any clothing. It's super easy to use, reusable, and el...

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Rejuvenate your Community by Selling Reusable Goods

Greener by Choice - October 21, 2014 07:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Here is an amazing way to get your community involved in reusing unwanted building supplies and good, while also support local families.   Shop Demo Depot is based in Mt. Pleasant, PA and their mission is to reduce landfill waste and promote the resale and reuse of goods, while financially sup...

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52: Buying Eco-Friendly Products Pays Off

Greener by Choice - October 13, 2014 23:02 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Join us today is Gia Machlin, founder of EcoPlum a green shopping rewards site with eco-friendly products and green living ideas that makes it fun, easy and rewarding to go green.    She carefully selects stylish and unique green products from vendors who earned third party sustainability cert...

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51: Take the Plastic Free Challenge

Greener by Choice - October 09, 2014 07:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
SaveOurShores.org states that ”80% of plastic pollution that enters the ocean originates from land. Common sources include: recreational beach users, people who drop litter on sidewalks and streets, plastics manufacturers and transporters, illegal dumping, and areas with inadequate trash recepta...

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50: Simple Ways to Protect Marine Mammals, Turtles, and Fish

Greener by Choice - October 07, 2014 07:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
“Ocean pollution affects over 267 species worldwide, including 86% of sea turtle species, 44% of all sea bird species, and 43% of marine mammal species.”   Human consumption of plastic is spiraling out of control. We are using a material that technically lasts forever to manufacture items we u...

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49 Missy Schenck - Green River Preserve

Greener by Choice - October 06, 2014 07:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Missy Schenck, executive directory of Green River Preserve is a non-competitive, coed summer camp connecting children with nature. Located on a 3,400 acre private wildlife preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, this extraordinary natural setting inspires campers to have ...

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48 Set up your recycling area

Greener by Choice - October 03, 2014 07:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Recycling is a terrific way to help reduce the amount of trash you dump in the landfill, but without proper planning piles of old newspaper and plastic containers can sure mess up your home or office. This episode shares ideas of how to set up a recycling area to hold everything in nice, neat bi...

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47 Turn a Trash Audit into a Treasure Hunt

Greener by Choice - October 02, 2014 19:22 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
There are many benefits to performing a trash audit in your home or office. Discover an easy process will help you evaluate the amount and types of trash being generated. Plus, you’ll benefit by cutting costs and saving money, improving your waste management systems, and Increasing your recyclin...

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46: Prevent Tons of Trash from Entering your local landfill

Greener by Choice - September 30, 2014 14:29 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
This weeks podcast topic is how to prevent tons of trash from entering your local landfill and I’ll be sharing 3 simple ways you can make this happen.   In 2012, Americans generated over 251 millions tons of trash and recycled and composted almost 86.6 million tons. Diverting about 32% of wast...

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45: Climate Change, One Week Later

Greener by Choice - September 29, 2014 07:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Sunday marks one week after 400,000 people from all around the country marched in NYC and called for action on climate change. This march was part of a series of 2,600 events like this one taking place in 56 countries.    What’s great is more and more people are finally recognizing that climat...

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44: Richard Sundance Owen, Environmental Cleanup Coalition

Greener by Choice - September 23, 2014 00:20 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Joining us today is Richard Sundance Owen, founder and executive director of the Environmental Cleanup Coalition. Today we’re talking about how Plastic Pollution is affecting our oceans, food chain and the health of marine animals, as well as our own.    Did you know “An estimated 14 billion p...

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43: Highlights from the Mother Earth News Fair

Greener by Choice - September 17, 2014 16:22 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Highlights from the Mother Earth News Fair   Last weekend I attended the Mother Earth News Fair in Seven Springs, PA. Wow,What an amazing weekend. First for those of you who may not know about Mother Earth News, they are a magazine that has been helping folks live self-reliant, sustainable, me...

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Green Road Trip to the Mother Earth News Fair

Greener by Choice - September 12, 2014 10:15 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
It’s a green road trip   It’s 5:30am in Wilmington, VT and I’m getting ready to head out the door and travel to Seven Springs, PA for the Mother Earth News Fair.   I am so excited to be spending the weekend with hundreds of Green Movement Leaders, learning more about their products and servi...

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41: Eric Hallman, PhD The Livestock Conservancy

Greener by Choice - September 10, 2014 07:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Protecting nearly 200 breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction. Eric Hallman executive director of The Livestock Conservancy speaks with The Green Up Girl.   Now, you may be scratching your head and thinking, “but I see cows and chickens all the time, how can they be endangered?” Just l...

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39: Misty Reilly-Rockn Socks

Greener by Choice - September 03, 2014 07:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Misty Reilly founder of RocknSocks started her business because her husband was always forgetting to pack his socks and would have to borrow hers when they attended music festivals. It got her thinking about the fact that you can get a whole new wardrobe from independent designers at these music...

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38: Transform Death back into Life

Greener by Choice - August 28, 2014 07:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
The reality is we all are going to die someday. I know it is sad to think about this topic, but all amazing things and creatures must pass on at some point. You can’t live forever, even though you may want to.   Besides the emotional trauma, many folks are worried about the possible environmen...

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37: Casey Muldoon: Turning Pallets into Pampered Furniture

Greener by Choice - August 26, 2014 07:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Wood pallets, old fencing, and beat up pianos are turned into finely crafted, cherished pieces of furniture thanks to the work of Casey Muldoon from Custom ReWorks.These materials would have other wise ended up in the landfill. Instead Casey uses his creativity to give them new life and purpose....

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36: Stop Junk Mail From Polluting Your Mail Box

Greener by Choice - August 22, 2014 07:30 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Stop Junk Mail From Polluting Your Mail Box. What a waste "More than 100 million trees are cut down every year to produce junk mail.”  Discover the simple 5 ways to protect the trees and keep your mail box empty. Receive resources; mailing addresses, email and website addresses to contact the r...

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35: Jane May Jones, Magical Earth Retreats

Greener by Choice - August 21, 2014 07:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Joining us today is Jane Jones, founder of Magical Earth Retreats, a non-profit organization that connects children and adults with nature. Magical Earth Retreats is on a mission to bring as many children and adults to the mountains to experience mother earth in order that they understand our co...

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34-Greener by Choice Expands to Meet its Mission

Greener by Choice - August 20, 2014 07:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Beyond podcasting about green issues and bringing you interviews with Green Movement Leaders, I’ll now be creating a community so you can receive simple action steps, engage in conversations, and gather the resources you want to enjoy living a greener lifestyle. This new community will go live o...

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