02) Bea Johnson on Launching the Global Zero Waste Movement and How We've Been Duped

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The woman who originally coined the term "Zero Waste Lifestyle," Bea Johnson, joins me to talk about starting this now-global movement.

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Highlights:

[2:55] "As soon as you adopt the zero waste lifestyle, you realize quickly that we've been duped."

[3:35] What got Bea to reduce waste in the first place.

[5:55] What motivated Bea to start a blog and share this lifestyle.

[9:15] What Bea does to inspire people to take their first steps.

[14:00] How Bea stays at peace knowing our world is still so wasteful.

[19:15] Bea's thoughts on how we can reduce material consumption while supporting economic growth.

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1:10.1	And he warned me and he said, I don't know, you know, you're going to get criticized.
1:15.4	You're just, you know, people are going to attack you if you expose yourself to mainstream.
1:21.3	But I really felt that it was important for me to share this.
1:25.1	And I'm glad I did because we were able to launch a global movement in the end.
1:29.3	Have you heard of the zero-waste lifestyle?
1:33.3	I'm guessing yes, but in case you haven't, it's all about really, really minimizing the amount of trash that you personally add to the landfill.
1:42.3	And today you're going to be hearing from the woman who started it all,
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