A Sustainable Mind, episode 10.

This is A Sustainable Mind podcast, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental changemakers of tomorrow.

I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander.

Dr. Colin Bevin is among the world's foremost spokespeople on environmental issues and consumerism. He has been called the best

green ambassador by treehugger.com and his blog was selected as one of the top 15 environmental blogs by Time

magazine. He has spoken and consulted with top brands, including eBay and Cliff Bar, and has

presented to audiences across the globe from California to the Czech Republic. His film, No Impact Man,

came up on the scene in 2009 and took the world of environmental documentaries by storm.

Now he has a follow-up book entitled How to Be Alive, a Guide to the Kind of Happiness that Helps the World, which is coming out in January 2016.

Colin, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

So I've given our listeners a small overview. As to your

background, why don't you go ahead and bring us down to the ground level? Tell us a bit about how

environmental sustainability played a part in your early life. Did you consider yourself a tree hugger?

Is it something that your parents considered a great deal? Or was that something that really didn't

play a part in your life growing up?

I mean, that's interesting, your use of tree hugger. I prefer to be called a person hugger than a

tree hugger. And my reasons for that is how I came to turn my career over to talking about

environmental and quality of life concerns was that in 2006 I had recently published

a war book and so was very close to the feelings and experiences of soldiers and at the same

time we were getting more and more news of what was happening in Iraq,

and I was getting more and more concerned over the fact that we were fighting a war for oil.

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