396: Eco-anxiety & the sneaky toxins in your home | Environmental policy expert Heather White

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Heather White: “If you care about the future, you are an environmentalist.” White, an environmental policy expert and author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to alleviate eco-anxiety, plus: - How to find your environmentalist personality type (~10:11) - Small, easy ways to show the Earth some love (~13:35) - Which individual actions can actually inspire policy change (~16:00) - The future of regenerative agriculture (~21:40) - How to avoid sneaky toxins in the home (~30:04) Referenced in the episode: - White's book, One Green Thing. - An mbg article responding to the 2021 IPCC report. - Atomic Habits, by James Clear. - mbg Podcast episode #386, with Annabel Streets. - Watch Seaspiracy on Netflix. - Watch The Biggest Little Farm documentary. - Regeneration, by Paul Hawken. - Paul Hawken's discussion on revitalizing the climate change conversation at mbg revitalize 2017. - A survey of 10,000 young people and their climate anxiety. Take 25% off vitamin D3 potency+ with code D3POD. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:45.6	Heather White is the founder of onegreenthing.org and the former executive director of the environmental
0:55.3	working group and also previously led the nonprofit partner to Yellowstone National Park.
1:02.1	She's one of the leading voices on environmental issues that has been featured on CBS,
1:06.8	PBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and quoted in the Washington Post, New York Times and the Guardian.
1:13.7	And today she's here to chat about her new book, One Green Thing. Discover your hidden power
1:19.9	to help save the planet. Heather, welcome. Thank you, Jason.
1:27.0	So great to see you. Congrats on the book and look, climate change is a very big topic. Yeah.
1:35.3	And it means a lot of different things to lots of different people. So I'm curious,
1:42.6	how do you think about climate change? How do you define climate change? Let's start there.
1:47.3	Great question. Climate change and global warming have now become synonymous, but technically,
1:54.1	they're different. Climate change refers to changes in weather and in temperature over a long period
2:00.4	of time. Global warming on the other hand refers to the impact of greenhouse gas emissions and
2:08.7	the warming of the earth. And those greenhouse gas emissions are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide,
2:15.0	water vapor, as well as methane and chlorofluoro carbons. Those together act as kind of a warming
2:21.6	blanket for the earth. And you know, kind of like what you would see in a typical greenhouse,
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