97) How plastic is made and realizing a future without plastic packaging with Snapshots of Simplicity's Christine Liu
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We've been talking so much about plastic pollution, but how exactly is plastic even made to begin with, and what can we learn from that process to better understand its impact on our health? How can we deal with having friends or family members who may not personally support the work we do or believe it can really make a difference?
Sharing her wisdom with us here is Christine Liu, author of the blog and YouTube channel on living more simply and sustainably, Snapshots of Simplicity. She has a degree in industrial and packaging technology from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo and currently works at Cisco as a sustainable packaging program manager, where she also co-founded its internal employee organization called the Green Team Network. Let's dive in.
HIGHLIGHTS
[6:32] Christina explains how plastic is actually made.
[10:53] Christina's advice for someone working for a company that's not focused on sustainability but wants to be an "intrapraneur" and work as a change maker from within.
[11:47] Kaméa: "What do you think is most effective when it comes to influencing the key decision makers in a large company like Cisco?"
[15:35] How Christine deals with push back from friends and family members.
[17:19] Christine: "Being an over-achiever or perfectionist, it's really easy to overlook rest and to not give yourself enough credit for what you do."
[18:15] Christine shares about her anxiety, her decision to take some time off from work, and how it has impacted her overall outlook and values.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
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| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:53.9 | Because of the different additives in plastic, it's those additives that are or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:59.4 | Because of the different additives in plastic, it's those additives that are actually often cancer causing. |
| 1:00.7 | It's those bad fumes that you might smell when you melt plastic down. |
| 1:04.3 | Those are the things that are actually very harmful for your health. |
| 1:09.1 | We've been talking so much about plastic pollution, but how exactly is plastic even made to begin with? |
| 1:16.1 | And what can we learn from that process to better understand its impact on our health? |
| 1:21.8 | How can we deal with having friends or family members who maybe don't personally support the work that we do or believe |
| 1:29.6 | that it can really make a difference. That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear |
| 1:34.8 | today. I wanted to take a moment to first thank our sponsor of this episode, which is Buffy, B-U-F-F-Y. |
| 1:42.4 | Buffy makes comforters that are better for you and for our earth, using Fluffy-Filled made from 100% B-U-F-F-Y. Buffy makes comforters that are better for you and for our Earth, using Fluffy |
| 1:46.5 | filled made from 100% BPA-free recycled water bottles, and a skin-friendly eucalyptus |
| 1:52.6 | fabric as the cover called Lysel, which you may know is one of my personal favorite and |
| 1:57.6 | one of our currently most eco-friendly cellulosic textile choices. |
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