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396: Eco-anxiety & the sneaky toxins in your home | Environmental policy expert Heather White

Apr 22, 2022
37:19

Heather White: “If you care about the future, you are an environmentalist.” 

White, an environmental policy expert and author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to alleviate eco-anxiety, plus:

- How to find your environmentalist personality type (~10:11)

- Small, easy ways to show the Earth some love (~13:35)

- Which individual actions can actually inspire policy change (~16:00)

- The future of regenerative agriculture (~21:40)

- How to avoid sneaky toxins in the home (~30:04)


Referenced in the episode:

- White's book, One Green Thing.

- An mbg article responding to the 2021 IPCC report.

- Atomic Habits, by James Clear.

- mbg Podcast episode #386, with Annabel Streets.

- Watch Seaspiracy on Netflix.

- Watch The Biggest Little Farm documentary.

- Regeneration, by Paul Hawken.

- Paul Hawken's discussion on revitalizing the climate change conversation at mbg revitalize 2017.

- A survey of 10,000 young people and their climate anxiety.


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