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Commune with Jeff Krasno

109. How to be Plastic-Free with Kate Nelson

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

While going to college in Santa Barbara, California - Kate Nelson looked around in the middle of a party at the sea of Red Solo cups half filled with beer and thought that there must be another option. After venturing out into the Great Pacific Trash Gyre, volunteering at Jean Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society, and becoming non-reliant on disposable plastic for over 10 years now, Kate Nelson is a Plastic-Free Mermaid.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring

0:11.6

some of the world's greatest teachers. We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom,

0:18.4

bring the world closer together. This is the Commune podcast where each

0:24.5

week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this healthy, connected, and purpose-filled

0:31.0

life. In addition to our courses on yoga, meditation, and personal development. Commune also offers an array of social impact

0:40.3

courses, including unwinding prejudice, redefining leadership, and organized march. If you are

0:46.4

interested in enrolling in any of those course offerings for free, please email me at jeff kay

0:52.8

at onecommun.com. We can all benefit from learning and growing

0:58.6

in order to better serve our communities. So this week, we're talking about something ubiquitous

1:06.1

that we barely notice. I'm referring to plastic. My guest today, Kate Nelson, is a special

1:13.8

person, though she doesn't think of herself as completely human. You'll know what I mean

1:19.4

in a minute. But she is special because of the work that she does in making people aware

1:25.4

of the harm of plastics on our personal and planetary health.

1:31.2

Kate collected plastic from the Great Pacific Trashire, the massive conglomeration of plastic refuse

1:37.1

in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, measuring about two times the size of Texas.

1:43.7

She's lobbied government officials, spoken at

1:46.2

scholarly institutions, founded an environmental nonprofit, and has personally stopped using disposable

1:53.4

plastic for 10 years. That means no straws, water bottles, plastic shopping bags, shampoo

1:59.4

bottles, makeup containers.

2:09.1

The list goes on, and it's frankly amazing to see how much of our everyday lives are riddled by disposable single-use plastic.

2:14.1

Kate also has a book out. It's called I Quit Plastics and You Can Too.

2:20.2

And on today's show, we'll talk about just that, how we can alter our habits to take better care of ourselves and our planet. My name is Jeff Krasno, and welcome to Kami. Hello, I'm Kate.

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