Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Everyday choices – like deciding which shirt to buy or on which platform to binge-watch shows on – may impact the planet more than you think. Tatiana's Schlossberg's new book Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, looks at how seemingly small choices can have a big impact on the climate. We sit down with experts in the fashion and energy sectors, two industries with a big carbon footprint, to see how far individual actions can take us – and when it's up to companies and producers to take the lead. Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Miranda Ballentine, CEO, Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance Rebecca Burgess, Founder and Director, Fibershed Gary Cook, Senior Corporate Campaigner, Greenpeace Amina Razvi, Executive Director, Sustainable Apparel Coalition Tatiana Schlossberg, Author, Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have Parts of this program were recorded at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	How much can individual consumer choices really change the carbon economy?
0:43.3	Climate One Conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,
0:49.3	the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.
0:52.3	I'm Greg Dalton.
0:59.4	The small choices we make every day can have a big collective impact on climate.
1:05.4	But experts say individual actions can only get us about 30 or 40% of the way to safety.
1:08.0	The rest falls on governments and companies. Is every company ready to make their individual brand heard on particular policy measures?
1:15.6	No, they're not.
1:17.6	Miranda Ballantyne is CEO of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance, a coalition of companies across the U.S.
1:24.6	When a major corporation chooses to operate on clean energy, it sends a strong
1:28.9	signal about what kind of economic actor that business wants to be. The same is true for individual
1:34.5	identity. If I eat local, can I wear local? If I eat organic, am I wearing organic? Rebecca Burgess
1:42.4	is founder and director of Fibershed, a nonprofit that helps develop regional
1:46.8	and regenerative fiber systems for clothing producers.
1:50.6	We'll hear from her, Miranda, and others later in the show.
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