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Abel James Show

David Gottfried: The Explosion Green and Creating a Sustainable Home

Abel James Show

Abel James Bascom

Mental Health, Business, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2014

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

David Gottfried is considered the father of the green movement, having founded the Green Building Council in 1993. You may have seen the “LEED” plaque on the side of a building? That’s the green rating system that David helped develop.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi folks, this is Abel James and thanks so much for listening to Fat Burning Man where

0:13.7

we talk about real food and real results.

0:17.3

Today's episode of the show is actually a little bit special.

0:19.8

We're here with David Godfried who is not just the husband of Dr. Sarah Godfried who's

0:25.0

the best-selling author of The Hormone Cure and a Good Friend of Mine, but also the

0:29.7

father of the green movement.

0:33.1

If you're familiar with lead in terms of building certification, you've probably seen those

0:38.4

plaques on thousands of buildings around the world.

0:41.8

Well that was him.

0:42.8

So it's really cool to have him here because these worlds actually do have a lot of overlap

0:47.3

in terms of enacting change and empowerment, you know, looking at how do you build a movement

0:53.0

from the grass roots up, whether it's real food or green building, very similar thing.

0:58.7

So we also get a little bit of Sarah and David's dirty laundry.

1:02.2

How do they live their lives every single day in terms of what are they eating, what sort

1:07.2

of mindfulness practices are they doing every day, meditation.

1:11.4

We talk about the nervous system.

1:13.5

It's a really cool show, but I wanted to squeeze it in because David's book Explosion

1:18.8

Green just came out and I really want to help support them.

1:22.1

It is a great book.

1:23.2

It's a terrific cause.

1:25.3

And there, like I said, is so much overlap between what we're doing here on this show and

1:31.5

in the health space and kind of like enacting change in the world at large.

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