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A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

100: Green Amendment Movement Founder, Maya van Rossum, Talks Climate Progress and The People's Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment

A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

Marjorie Alexander

Society & Culture, Science, Nature

4.6 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Maya K. van Rossum is the Founder of Green Amendments For the Generations, a grassroots non-profit organization inspiring a nationwide movement to secure constitutional recognition and protection of environmental rights in every state and ultimately at the federal level.

Maya is the author of The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment, and the follow up book The Green Amendment: The People's Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment, which will be released in November 2022. Continue reading Maya's bio at ASustainableMind.com/100

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In this episode, Marjorie and Maya discuss:

  • Is our environment actually protected under current legislation?
  • States that are getting environmental protection right and why
  • The one thing you should always do when speaking to local and state officials about the importance of environmental protections…hint: it involves the Constitution!
  • Maya's new book!


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Transcript

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0:00.0

We all hear all the time from politicians and others.

0:05.0

We have a right to clean water and a right to clean air.

0:09.0

But you don't really, because if it's not in the Constitution and nobody protects that right, there's nothing you can do about it.

0:16.0

Hey there, everyone. This is Marjorie Alexander, host of A Sustainable Mind, and I would love

0:21.9

to welcome you to episode 100.

0:25.0

We have an awesome conversation for you today with one of my favorite guests.

0:29.6

You'll see why in just a moment.

0:31.5

But before we get into that, I wanted to let you know that this episode is brought to you

0:35.3

by Wren.

0:36.6

Wren helps you calculate your carbon footprint

0:38.3

by asking a few questions about your lifestyle, and then they share with you projects from around the

0:43.5

globe that you can invest in to go carbon neutral. We'll learn a little bit more about them later on in the

0:49.2

episode, but if you want to get a sneak peek, you can check out Ren while you listen by heading over to

0:55.0

W-R-E-N-C-O-F-S-M.

0:59.0

Now, let's get into the episode.

1:06.0

I am so, so excited to be finally hosting the 100th episode of A Sustainable Mind here with my friend

1:16.1

Maya Van Rossum, the author of the Green Amendment and the founder of the Green Amendment.

1:22.6

I am so excited to be getting into what you've been up to for the last five years since I last talked to you.

1:28.8

If you did not go back and listen to episode 26, our right to a healthy environment, please go

1:35.4

ahead and do so now. But if we want to just jump right in and fast forward a few years,

1:41.4

we've got plenty, plenty to talk about when it comes to our right

1:45.1

to a healthy environment and the Green Amendment. So let's just jump right in. Maya, how are you?

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