061: Experiments in Earth-Conscious Living with Rob Greenfield
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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 sustainability (three times), to dumpster diving in thousands of grocery store dumpsters to raise awareness about food waste and hunger, to wearing 30 days worth of trash to create a visual of how much trash just one American creates, he has inspired countless people to positively change. Rob has been featured on thousands of media outlets around the world, hosted shows on Discovery Channel and has given two TEDx talks. You can see his media page here.
In this episode we cover:
- Rob's journey from nature-loving kid, to materialistic teen, to environmental changemaker
- Some of Rob's favorite adventures and experiments
- How his choice to give up his computer caused him to question his impact in the world
- Rob's best advice for those just getting started in eco-conscious living
Rob Greenfield Online:
- RobGreenfield.tv
- Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
- Rob's current project Food Freedom
- The Trash Me experiment where Rob wore all the trash he produced for 30 days
- Some of my favorite blog articles by Rob
- What is My Heart's Deepest Desire?
- How to Create an Environmental Activism Campaign
- One of Rob's bamboo bike tours: Goodfluence Tour
Suggestions & Green Resource from Rob:
- Take 12 hours off from devices each day if you can and go tech-free for 1 full day each week.
- Learn about Winona LaDuke and other inspiring people at RobGreenfield.tv/people
- Learn about educational and moving films at RobGreenfield.tv/films
- Check out the project, film and books from the Story of Stuff
Books:
- Anything by Gandhi and MLK (access Gandhi's writing free at Gandhi Serve Foundation)
- The Moneyless Man and other books by Mark Boyle
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 61. Today, I am speaking with the one and only Rob Greenfield. |
| 0:07.3 | It's an interview that I've been wanting to have for quite some time, and I'm super excited to be sharing with you Rob's new project called Food Freedom. |
| 0:14.9 | But before we get into that, I wanted to take a second to thank our donors. |
| 0:18.8 | Our biggest donor for January 2019 was Vincent from Las Vegas. |
| 0:23.3 | And our newest donors include Jessica from Topeka, Kansas, and Chester from Toronto, Ontario. |
| 0:30.4 | Chester writes, thank you so much for this podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | I think it provides invaluable information and perspectives for all people. |
| 0:37.4 | Looking forward to your |
| 0:38.1 | future episodes. If you are interested in supporting a Sustainable Mind podcast, we are now a 501c3 |
| 0:44.6 | charitable organization and your donation is tax deductible. Click the donate tab at the top of the |
| 0:49.5 | homepage at asustainablemind.com or just click the link on any of our social media. |
| 0:57.5 | Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful |
| 1:03.1 | environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental changemakers |
| 1:09.6 | of tomorrow. I'm your host, Marjor environmental change makers of tomorrow. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander. |
| 1:25.1 | Rob Greenfield is an adventure, environmental activist, humanitarian, and dude making a difference. |
| 1:28.1 | His activism has made for some very interesting and eye-catching visuals over the years, |
| 1:30.4 | including him riding a bamboo bicycle across United States |
| 1:33.9 | to raise awareness for sustainability, |
| 1:36.2 | and him dumpster diving for perfectly edible food |
| 1:39.2 | thrown away by retail grocery store chains |
| 1:41.2 | to bring awareness to food waste and hunger. |
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