Latest Sustainable living Podcast Episodes

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3.27 Live Natural with Ali Devin

Home Green Homes - April 15, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
"We’re not sacrificing anything aesthetic.  We’re not sacrificing anything ergonomic by being mindful.  We’re just pausing and thinking about it and making a good decision instead of rushing through to check everything off the list.  It’s not going to be apparent in the final end result that you...

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3.27 Live Natural with Ali Davin

Home Green Homes - April 15, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
"We’re not sacrificing anything aesthetic.  We’re not sacrificing anything ergonomic by being mindful.  We’re just pausing and thinking about it and making a good decision instead of rushing through to check everything off the list.  It’s not going to be apparent in the final end result that you...

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Sizzling Stories of Sustainability: A Deep Dive into Seasonal Cooking and Local Agriculture

Fresh Take - April 01, 2024 15:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Imagine your palate embarking on a voyage where every flavor tells a story of community, sustainability, and creativity. That's exactly the kind of sensory adventure you're in for as Jeffrey Schlissel, the cuisine virtuoso and barbecue 'Kingpin,' joins us at the table. With nicknames like 'Bacon...

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3.26 How To Reduce Waste in Daily Life with Denise Braun

Home Green Homes - April 01, 2024 07:25 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
“You as a consumer, I as a consumer have enormous power to make the transformation that we want to see.  But one of the transformations as a consumer is selecting the right products because the competitor who is not doing the right packaging or the right product is going to see that they’re losi...

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Ep-8 Prepping Your Earth and Container Gardens in the Spring: The Rusted Garden Homestead: All About Growing, Cooking, & Sharing Food

The Rusted Garden Homestead: All About Growing, Cooking & Sharing Food - March 28, 2024 12:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
Today we talk about getting your earth beds and containers ready for growing early spring. The Rusted Garden Homestead  podcast is all about sharing my passion for growing, cooking, and sharing food with family and friends.  In this episode, I talk with my friend Erica Cody, a market gardener. ...

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102) Leveraging Your Slow Fashion Skills To Make Money Beyond Products

Conscious Style Podcast - March 26, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
For our first-ever Conscious Fashion Collective Membership panel discussion, we discussed a topic that is often taboo in the slow fashion space — money! We believe that financial sustainability is essential for creating a more just, and sustainable, fashion ecosystem with thriving businesses tha...

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Table Talk: Exploring Food Transparency and Traceability

Fresh Take - March 18, 2024 17:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Embark on a culinary journey with Hari Pulapaka, the force behind the Global Cooking School. Discover the importance of food transparency and traceability, where every bite tells a story. As a mathematician-turned-chef, Hari's passion for ingredients with a clear backstory has fostered collabora...

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3.25 How I Built My Sustainable ADU

Home Green Homes - March 18, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
"For me, mantra in my sort of day-to-day climate work is go for the gigatons. And while as a homeowner, a single homeowner, you can't do that, you can look at your biggest spend. So what are the most gigantic energy sinks in your home? Two-thirds of home energy use is from heating and hot water....

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3.25 How I Built My Sustainable ADU with Trent Wolbe

Home Green Homes - March 18, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
"For me, mantra in my sort of day-to-day climate work is go for the gigatons. And while as a homeowner, a single homeowner, you can't do that, you can look at your biggest spend. So what are the most gigantic energy sinks in your home? Two-thirds of home energy use is from heating and hot water....

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101) Demystifying Financial Sustainability in Slow Fashion

Conscious Style Podcast - March 12, 2024 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
Financial sustainability is essential for creating a more just, and sustainable, fashion ecosystem with thriving businesses that care about people and the planet. But how do you go about actually making money in this space, especially when you care about not overproducing? Money-making is a topi...

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Harvesting Wisdom: Exploring ATTRA Programs

Fresh Take - March 04, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Discover the heartbeat of sustainable agriculture with Audrey Coldy from the National Center for Appropriate Technology, as she brings her rich farming heritage and knowledge to our latest conversation. Her passion for intertwining nature with history to promote food equity and environmental ste...

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3.24 How To Quit Carbon with Cooper Marcus

Home Green Homes - March 04, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
"For some folks, they become really motivated by the climate crisis. They start to understand that in their family, maybe their single largest source of climate pollution, and it's a big one, is sitting in their closet just heating their water and heating their house, right? So that's some folks...

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Microbiology of Foodborne Pathogens and Their Effect on Food Safety

Fresh Take - February 19, 2024 18:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
  Summary:  In this episode, Dr. Keith Schneider joins Dr. Juan Carlos Rodriguez for a discussion on FSMA’s produce safety rule and microbiology concepts related to food safety.  In this episode, Dr. Keith Schneider discusses microbiology concepts that help farmers better understand how to pr...

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Love to Shower with RainStick with Alisha McFetridge

Home Green Homes - February 19, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
“…what can we do in terms of water and energy? Something that's super decentralized that doesn't make people compromise. And we started to look at where water is used most within the residential home and 50% of that water use stems from the bathroom. It's quite alarming when you start looking at...

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3.22 Selling Sustainable Homes with Wayne Beals

Home Green Homes - February 05, 2024 08:02 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
“I feel that we have this moral imperative from a business standpoint to preserve our markets. And so, as Realtors, we are advisors.  So we explain to our developers, we explain to our buyers, we explain to our sellers how to transact in a way that is most profitable for them. how the Code of E...

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A Deep Dive into the 2024 Organic Food and Farming Summit! 

Fresh Take - February 02, 2024 18:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Discover the transformative world of organic agriculture as Andi Emrich, programs manager of Florida Organic Growers, joins our host Lana Chehabeddine, in unraveling the wonders behind the upcoming Organic Food and Farming Summit April 18-19 in Tampa, FL! Andi, brings her unique expertise to the...

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Protecting Farmlands, Sustaining Futures: The Greenbelt Law

Fresh Take - January 22, 2024 18:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this podcast episode, Catherine Campbell, PhD, MPH, and Jesse Haskins delve into the impact of the Florida Greenbelt Law on farm property taxes.  Catherine, an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, shares her expertise in community food systems, emphasizing research for health, s...

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3.21 Think Circular: Practical Tips to Design Sustainably with Kathryn Soter

Home Green Homes - January 22, 2024 14:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
"The new thinking is around circularity. The idea of circularity is the circulation of materials at their highest value for the longest period of time.  And when you design with circular systems in mind, you are thinking about the end at the beginning, meaning what's going to happen to this prod...

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3.20 Back to Basics: Sustainable Construction Innovation with Todd Usher

Home Green Homes - January 12, 2024 23:34 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
"I think that we will continue to see high performance sustainability at the forefront of innovation. I think it's going to be a slow transition depending on where you are in the world and where you are in the U.S.  So I think we're going to see different rates of adoption. I think all of it is ...

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Local Bites Unite: Hylo Launch with Florida Local Food Network

Fresh Take - January 08, 2024 17:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Lana and Andi invite Florida local food actors to join the Florida Local Food Network, and to get started by attending our virtual training event January 18th, "Platform Training & Kickoff!" Fresh Take host Lana Chehabeddine takes on the guest role to talk about the Florida Local Food Project, ...

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Sustainability on the Rise: Eco-Friendly Baking Tips

Fresh Take - December 18, 2023 18:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Join Lana and Joy for a conversation about sustainable baking practices.  Joy, a former pastry chef and current FOG Local Nutrition and Outreach Coordinator, introduces the concept of sustainable baking, emphasizing the importance of minimizing environmental impact, reducing waste, and supporti...

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3.19 Doctoring Our Homes with Dan Thomsen

Home Green Homes - December 11, 2023 17:15 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
“Building science for these principles and tools to measure and test homes and treat them as an interconnected thing so that all the systems work together and you can achieve better results by looking at the house as a system.” - Dan Thomsen Dan Thompson, the owner and founder of Building Docto...

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Sowing Success: Certified Organic Farm Technician Training (COFT) 

Fresh Take - December 04, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Dr. Javier Garces joins JC for a conversation about Certified Organic Farm Technician training (COFT), a comprehensive program designed to provide high school and post-secondary students with the specialized knowledge, skills, and experience they’ll need to enter the agricultural workforce.  Dr...

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Ep-7 Growing An Edible Landscape (Book & Authors Discussion): The Rusted Garden Homestead: All About Growing, Cooking, & Sharing Food

The Rusted Garden Homestead: All About Growing, Cooking & Sharing Food - November 29, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
Chiara D'Amore and I coauthored Growing an Edible Landscape: How to Transform Your Outdoor Space into a Food Garden. Today we discuss the book, how we came to write it, and we briefly discuss each chapter. The Book is available at most locations and here at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Growin...

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3.18 Home Certifications with Brett Little

Home Green Homes - November 27, 2023 13:09 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
There’s been plenty of studies over the years ranging anywhere from half of a percent to 15 percent in value for certifications.  And part of it has to do with the areas, so obviously when you get into areas like parts of Texas and California, Florida, Virginia, we saw value increases partiallyb...

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3.17 Reward for Purchasing Green Homes with Kerry Langley

Home Green Homes - November 21, 2023 22:19 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
My model is if you look at the cost of owning a house holistically, is a high performance home better? In most cases I can tell you with all confidence it is.  But a lot of people look at first cost, and they say, “wait a minute, this house costs 10,000 bucks more than house B over here, which i...

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Weed Management for Organic and Transitional Farmers

Fresh Take - November 20, 2023 16:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode, JC and Dr. Carlene Chase explore some of the biggest challenges facing farmers, discuss the potential of organic farming practices to address these issues, and delve into science-based solutions, highlighting the benefits of cover crops.   Dr. Chase is an associate professor at...

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Ep-6 Planting Fall Onions & Garlic and Organic Matter Matters: The Rusted Garden Homestead: All About Growing, Cooking, & Sharing Food

The Rusted Garden Homestead: All About Growing, Cooking & Sharing Food - November 09, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
Fall and late fall is a great time to plant garlic and onions. Erica and I  go over all the basics. Organic fertilizers are great but they arent the same as organic matter. We also talk about what gardens mean to us. The Rusted Garden Homestead  podcast is all about sharing my passion for growi...

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5 Key Pillars for a Net Positive Fashion Industry with Holly Syrett of Global Fashion Agenda (Bonus)

Conscious Style Podcast - November 07, 2023 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
How can fashion take action right now for a net positive future? From climate and biodiversity to worker livelihoods and fair wages to overconsumption and textile waste, the gaps between where we need to be and where we are right now feel… vast.  But in this episode, we're discussing ways that...

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Wisdom of the Fields: Organic Transitioning Tips

Fresh Take - November 06, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
FOG Board Vice President Logan Petrey joins us to discuss the benefits of organic farming practices and The Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP).   Logan Petrey is the Ranch Manager for Grimmway Farms’ organic farm in North Florida, as well as serving as the National Organic Standar...