This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 48.

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Welcome to a sustainable mind, 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.

Catherine Kellogg is an actress, photographer, and one of the go-to sources for all things

zero waste. She shares her experiences and for all things zero-waste.

She shares her experiences and her wisdom at going zero-waste.com.

Catherine, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

I am so excited to be speaking with you.

Finally, I've been following your work for, gosh, a few years now. But before we get into that and talk about exactly

who you are in the zero waste community, which some people might be unfamiliar with you,

can you give us a clue as to how nature, the environment, and sustainability played a role in your

childhood growing up? Well, actually, I was not a very outdoorsy child. I never

really went camping. I was never into being outside, but a lot of that changed for me when I was

probably in my sophomore year of college. I had a breast cancer scare and my whole world changed. I just

started looking at everything very, very differently. I started consuming differently. I was looking

at the products that I was using with a much more scrutinizing eye. I was really concerned about

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