Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening

podcast. Today we have Mandy McKay back again. She's the director of

sustainability at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Yesterday we talked about bringing some of the sustainability elements back down to your

individual home and garden with some creative and sort of unique tips that I think are very practical.

And then we talked a little bit at the end, Mandy, about how, you know, if we all just did

a little bit of this, the large-scale effects would be massive.

And we sort of skipped over one of the biggest

large-scale effects that we should all be quite concerned about in my opinion and

that would of course be greenhouse gas right?

Yeah so you know when we're talking about individual action being magnified to the point

where it has large-scale planetary impact, climate change, as you said, is really the most, the

penultimate example of that, right? So you've got individuals, we're all

acting in certain ways and we have been over the last century and that has led to a significant

and increasingly worsening problem with the changing climate patterns that we're seeing and increasing the global

temperature that our planet exists in and it's really kind of tipping that

balance and so we're seeing the impacts of that and so again back to what we said yesterday

individual actions do ladder up to to large-scale change for good or bad and so I think what we were hoping to talk on today

was really kind of this greenhouse gas emissions,

how that plays into climate change,

and then sort of what the brewery is looking at doing there.

I mean, we're've as we've been talking about this whole

week I'm really proud and we've done some really great work at the brewery over the

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