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

149) Addressing our unsustainable palm oil demand with Maria Abadilla

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

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Maria Abadilla is the Founder and Chairperson of Orangutan Alliance (@orangutanalliance), an independent, industry-based nonprofit organization promoting the reduction of unsustainable palm oil in consumer products through their palm oil free certification program.

On this podcast episode, Maria sheds light on the primary global threats from the palm oil industry; the evolution of how we commodified palm oil to the point where rainforests are cleared for its plantations; how we can navigate the over two-hundred alternative names that palm oil is masked under on ingredient labels; and more.

 

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I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent

0:07.9

podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those

0:13.7

considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question.

0:22.3

So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out.

0:26.8

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0:30.7

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0:37.3

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0:40.4

donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so

0:47.6

grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us.

0:54.0

If we decided on creating new innovation, we could do it.

0:58.0

If we were interested in creating change, we could do it.

1:01.1

So I thought, you know, there was a role for the food industry and the cosmetic industry

1:06.0

to play in terms of creating new solutions.

1:11.1

What are some of the palm oil industry's major threats that we need to know about?

1:16.7

And how do we get to this point where palm oil seems to be lurking in so many different

1:21.1

consumer products without you and I even necessarily knowing?

1:25.5

That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today.

1:28.6

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1:31.8

a community where people meet every day to trade things like clothing, houseplants,

1:36.1

furniture, and art.

1:37.5

You can check it out first by downloading the app Buns, spelled B-U-N-Z on your smartphone,

1:42.7

and I'll tell you more shortly.

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