A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
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!
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2022
061: Experiments in Earth-Conscious Living with Rob Greenfield
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 …
060: Love and The Clean Money Revolution with Joel Solomon
Joel Solomon is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. As a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has investe…
059: Everyone has a 1% with Kate Williams, CEO of One Percent for the Planet
Kate Williams is CEO of 1% for the Planet, a global movement inspiring businesses and individuals to support environmental nonprofit solutions, through annual membership and everyday actions. Kate st…
058: Sustainable Beekeeping and Making a Difference in the Peace Corps with Katherine Milling
057: Let's talk microplastics with Jay Sinha of Life Without Plastic
Jay Sinha has a background in biochemistry, ecotoxicology and law. He Co-Founded and is Co-Owner of Life Without Plastic, the one-stop shop for safe, high quality, ethically-sourced, Earth-friendly a…
056: Climate Adaptation, what it is and why it matters, with Doug Parsons
Doug Parsons first learned about adaptation in Queensland, Australia, while focusing on the impacts of climate change on the agriculture sector. Upon returning to the United States, he worked with Fl…
055: Being the change and making an impact at any age with Sam Demma and Dillon Mendes of PickWaste
Sam Demma and Dillon Mendes started holding weekly trash pick-up events in their hometown of Pickering, Ontario. Now, a year later, they have a budding organization called PickWaste, where they are i…
054: Capturing Big Trees and Cultivating Curiosity with author and professor Matt Ritter
Dr. Matt Ritter grew up in rural Mendocino County, California. After earning a bachelor’s degree in microbiology from U.C. Santa Barbara, he attended U.C. San Diego for a Ph.D. in plant biology. He’s…
053: Environmental Podcasting, Gardening and the Florida Trail with Misti Little of The Garden Path Podcast
Misti Little is gardener, creative, and outdoor enthusiast interested in deepening her connection to nature. She founded The Garden Path Podcast in 2015 to interact and share knowledge with other gar…
052: Protecting our Public Lands with The Conservation Fund’s Director of Strategic Planning Will Allen
Today we are joined by Will Allen, the Vice President of Conservation Services and Director of Strategic Conservation Planning at The Conservation Fund in Chapel Hill, NC. He is also the author of th…
051: Building Our Cities, One Recycled Shipping Container at a Time with Paul Galvin of SG Blocks
Paul Galvin, is the Chairman and CEO of SG Blocks, a premier designer and fabricator of container-based structures. SG Blocks has recently secured two low-income housing development projects in New Y…
050: Greenlid, the world's first compostable kitchen composting bin, with Jackson Wyatt
Morgan and Jackson Wyatt are the co-founders of Greenlid, a disposable, compostable and leak-proof composting bin for your kitchen. After launching a successful Kickstarter campaign and securing back…
049: Healing from the Inside Out with Eva Vennari of the Elevate Institute
Eva Vennari is on a mission to dismantle the status quo of the sickness industry. Having spent most of her adult life suffering from all kinds of conditions she decided to take matters into her own h…
048: Going Zero Waste and getting healthy with Kathryn Kellogg
Kathryn Kellogg is a zero waste influencer and blogger at GoingZeroWaste.com. In this episode, we discuss common misconceptions about zero-waste living and how replacing one toiletry item with the DI…
047: Gardening and Coding with From Seed to Spoon app developer Dale Spoonemore
Dale Spoonemore is the co-founder of the From Seed to Spoon mobile app that helps gardeners all over the world plant amazing gardens, no matter their skill level or prior knowledge. We'll be talking …
046: Top 5 Tips for Reducing Paper Waste
In this episode we will tackle some of the easiest ways to reduce paper waste in your life or simply not bringing in unnecessary paper to begin with. And don't worry about taking notes. All resources…
045: Fighting for Clean Water Worldwide with WaterAid America's CEO Sarina Prabasi
Sarina Prabasi is the CEO of WaterAid America, a non-profit that brings clean water, sanitation and hygiene to over 37 countries across the globe. WaterAid also provides job training so the communiti…
044: Online Adventure Communities and Creating Your Own Opportunities with Love Her Wild's Bex Band
Bex Band is a professional nomad, an ordinary adventurer and an amazing story teller. She shares about her travels and excursions at LoveHerWild.com an online community she started, specifically for …
043: Positive Impact through Incremental Habits with Aint No Planet B's Zoe Jazz
Zoe Jazz has been sharing her zero waste journey with the world through her awesome blog Ain't No Planet B. She touches on the typical eco lifestyle habits - versions of household products, recipes, …
042: Eco-friendly and Sustainable Event Planning with Chance Thompson
Chance Thompson is the senior manager of sustainability and PR for one of the world's largest event companies. In this episode, Chance tells us about the most rewarding and challenging parts of his j…