Welcome to the cut presents in her shoes. I'm Lindsay People's Editor and Chief of the Cut.

I'm taking over this feed and talking to women that we at the cut love and admire or just find

interesting. We'll explore how they found their path, what got in their way, and how they think

about bringing others along now that they've arrived. Many leaders in our world see merging

sustainability and a successful business as a challenge, but Leah Thomas, aka Green Girl Leah,

has made protecting the planet and the vulnerable communities that live on it a cornerstone of

her success. We sat down with her just ahead of Earth Day to discuss her new book, Harnessing

Social Media as a tool for good and how she's built a career on making the world a little more

equal for everyone and a little nicer to our home planet.

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Hi. Hi, Lindsay. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Thanks for having me. This is so cool.

Okay. We are talking a lot about sustainability on the cut this month. I mean, it's something that

we talk about all the time and something that we cover, but it's always something that we feel like

we are trying to make it new and fresh and still keep people engaged. And I'm sure this is

something that you also are always talking about because it does feel like, I don't know,

I think the just that I get from a lot of our readers is that it feels like sustainability is

such a huge problem and it feels like, what can we actually do? Like, can we actually do anything

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