Small steps to live your best sustainable life
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
A lot of us question how much we can minimize our carbon footprint in our day-to-day lives. Should we go vegan? Recycle more? Or just never fly again?
That’s where The Post’s climate coach, Michael Coren, comes to the rescue.
In today’s episode, he answers your questions about how to make smart decisions every day that will help the planet.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll start with the most basic of the basics. |
| 0:05.4 | Mike, who are you and what do you do with the post? |
| 0:08.5 | I'm the climate coach. |
| 0:10.5 | I just arrived and what I'm doing at the post is trying to understand, I think, how |
| 0:17.1 | individuals can act on climate change. |
| 0:23.7 | This is Michael Corrin and as climate coach, he has all kinds of advice about how to minimize |
| 0:29.2 | our carbon footprint in our everyday lives. |
| 0:34.6 | You know, there's a lot of, I think, sort of, very symbolic actions that are out there, |
| 0:39.1 | but I'm trying to dig into the data and understand, you know, what's really meaningful, what's |
| 0:43.0 | really impactful, and going beyond just, but how it affects everyone around us as well. |
| 0:51.2 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm your guest host, Chris Velasco. |
| 0:58.0 | It's Wednesday, May 3rd. |
| 1:00.0 | Today, Mike answers your questions about going vegan and recycling and air travel. |
| 1:06.0 | Plus, I ask him how he thinks about the future of living in a warmer world. |
| 1:13.0 | So, you've been doing this for a little while already. |
| 1:22.4 | Can you very, sort of, briefly kind of walk us through some of the things you've discovered |
| 1:26.0 | and some of the things that you've been able to share with people so far? |
| 1:29.3 | Well, you know, I've written about everything. |
| 1:31.8 | It feels like my first column was on appliances and talking with my editors, Juliet, actually |
| 1:36.7 | came up with something that she'd heard years ago that even washing eight dishes by hand |
| 1:42.5 | was less efficient than putting them in the dishwasher, which we thought was absurd statistic, |
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