212: How to shop sustainably | Joey Zwillinger, co-founder of Allbirds

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Joey Zwillinger: "We need to give consumers a simple understanding of what they’re consuming—what's the price, quality, and carbon emission? If apparel labels were transparent, there would be such a clear barometer of what to buy as a consumer." Zwillinger, the co-founder of sustainable footwear brand, Allbirds, sits down with mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss what consumers should look for in sustainable products, plus: *How consumers can lead the charge against climate change* *Why apparel labels should look more like food labels* *Why petroleum is so ubiquitous in our lives* *The newest natural materials to manufacture with* *How to really shop sustainably in this day and age* Enjoy this episode, sponsored by Allbirds! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
0:09.0	Today's guest, Joey's Willinger, is co-founder of one of my favorite mission-driven brands, Allbirds.
0:14.8	Joey's a former biotech engineer and renewable materials expert.
0:18.8	And today we're going to talk about how we can deal with eco-anxiety, what to look for when we go shopping for more sustainable
0:25.6	brands, including what to look for in a label, and also about the future of renewable
0:31.0	materials.
0:32.0	Joey, so great to have you here. Welcome. of Renewable Materials.
0:33.0	Joey, so great to have you here.
0:34.2	Welcome.
0:35.2	Really good to be here, Jason, and great to meet you.
0:37.7	So, you know, as I mentioned before we started taping,
0:41.2	you know, love what you guys are doing at Allbirds and I bonded with your co-founder
0:44.4	Tim over our lower back pain struggles years ago combined with raising little kids and stress
0:51.1	and sleep and all that fun stuff of starting a company.
0:54.4	So great to finally beat you as well.
0:57.3	Yeah, I feel like it's a we can all commiserate on that a bit.
1:00.0	But I hope you back's doing well.
1:01.6	It is, thank you. So, you know, let's start with this word sustainability. It's a bit of a nebulous term and so many people are confused.
1:12.9	If you were to do a survey, if you were to stop people in the streets of New York or San Francisco
1:16.3	and say, you know, what does sustainability mean?
1:18.4	I feel like you'd get a hundred different answers.
1:20.6	So I'm curious from your perspective, being an expert in the field, what does it mean?
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