Your Financial Pharmacist YFP 263: The Intersection of Financial Literacy and The Energy Burden
Jul 7, 2022
29:27
Diamond Spratling, an impact-driven environmental health professional and non-profit leader, discusses her TEDx talk, The Secret to Clean Energy: Addressing The Root Causes of Energy Burden.
Key Points From This Episode
- A warm introduction to today’s guest, Diamond Spratling
- Diamond’s educational and professional background.
- How she got into doing the work that she’s involved in today.
- Her definition of environmental justice.
- Breaking down the three aspects of environmental justice: Earth, built, and social.
- What energy burden is and why our guest decided to speak about it.
- Why income is a big factor of energy burden.
- What an acceptable energy burden percentage looks like.
- Energy burden versus utility burden.
- Taking a look at some of the root causes of energy burden.
- Why America is failing in financial literacy education.
- How to implement financial literacy education in America.
- The importance of educating the youth as early as possible.
- Diamond provides a link between improved financial literacy and the energy burden crisis.
- What Girl + Environment is and why she brought it to fruition.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode
- The Secret to Clean Energy: Addressing Root Causes of Energy Burden | Diamond Spratling | TEDxBGSU
- YFP Planning: Financial Planning for Pharmacists
- Schedule a free Discovery Call with YFP Planning
- Insuring Income: Get Quotes and Apply for Term Life and Disability Insurance
- Girl Plus Environment
- Financial Literacy Statistics: FfinEDge, University of Chicago
- Follow Girl Plus Environment on Twitter: @girlenvironment
- Follow Girl Plus Environment on Instagram: @girlplusenvironment
- Connect with Girl Plus Environment on Facebook
- Connect with Diamond Spratling on LinkedIn
- Follow Diamond Spratling on Twitter: @diamondsprat
- Your Financial Pharmacist Disclaimer and Disclosures