Environmental Style Now

Join us on E.S.Now with activist, coach and founder of an online school for change-makers and way finders, Laura Hartley as we discuss how to find your purpose and make change in the fashion industry. If you’re a changemaker, activist or looking to remake the world, Public LovED is for you. A liberatory space and online school, you can find programs on healing burnout culture, regenerative leadership & the inner work of dismantling capitalism & supremacy culture. Questions? Just reach out! 

My guest today, Marc Cortez is here to talk about his recently published book Climaturity. Marc  is an entrepreneur, professor and long-time veteran of the solar, electric vehicle, and energy storage industries. He has raised over $23M for multiple startups, and is currently the Founder/CEO of Liquid8, a water conservation startup. Mr. Cortez is also a professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.Please check out his work at www.climaturity.com and www.liquid8.com 

My guest today is here to talk about his latest feature in GQ magazine.  Dr. Evan Johnson is a public speaker on peak performance, a life coach, and his recent feature discusses dressing for the part to trick the brain to become the part.  Learn more about peak performance through his TED Talk, and see how Dr. Evan can help you achieve your highest level by booking a session with him via his website. www.drevanjohnson.com 

Join DeAnna Batdorff and E.S.Now host Courtney Barriger in a discussion of the history of Ayurveda and how what is in your closet can set off you off balance. DeAnna Batdorff, a Generation-X California native, is a wholistic health detective with over 30 years of experience as an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Lymphatic Massage Specialist, Nutrition Counselor, Western Herbalist, and Clinical Aromatherapist. She specializes in reading the pulse, spine, face, skin, and tongue as primary assessment tools. All of DeAnna’s teachings are rooted in her three foundational pillars: listen to self through symptoms, the right to take action, and ‘follow-through means feeling better.

My guest today has a wealth of knowledge of all things fabric. Carroll Dunham has traveled the world with National Geographic, and selected a very unique collection of threads that support indigenous tribes . But more than that, she has made it part of her mission to bring awareness to the importance of micro ecosystems, and how it takes generations of craftsmanship along with a very local environment to create legacy fabrics.  It is the difference between a micro economy and a global economy, and it’s quite fascinating.She cofounded Around The World in 80 Fabrics as a way to preserve and tell the story of sustainable fabrics, and create fertile ground for the cross pollination of ancient sustainable practices in the making of fabric.  www.atw80fabrics.com 

On this episode of E.S.Now, author Alyssa Couture shares with us highlights from her upcoming book Healthy Fashion.  She has written a compassionate guidebook on fashion for health. Healthy Fashion offers methods of fashion as an alternative health remedy.  The Golden New Age of Fashion: We are at an exciting time where fashion is in transition. Fashion in pursuit of health is an enlightening pursuit for this modern era. We are at the time of a spiritual awakening. The fashion industry is in a bit of transition right now. We are slowly catching on to producing and promoting fashion in pursuit of mind- body- spirit.Alyssa is a fashion intuitive and a healthy fashion practitioner. Her work supports the fashion industry into its course as a therapeutic, healing tool-- to help initiate the consciousness of the human spirit via fashion into its transmission of divine activity for overall human health and well-being. Fashion for health is also a major contributing factor for ultimate planetary awakening.  With over 15 years of fashion industry experience in a number of roles, some of these include fashion business, fashion designing, creative directing, styling, merchandising, journalism, fashion retailing, and fashion show production.

Humor makes us human, it simplifies complex ideas and makes just about anything relatable.  That is why I’m delighted to host scientist and comedian, a man after Jon Oliver’s own heart, Ethan Brown of the Climate Change Podcast The Sweaty Penguin.  We are talking about some of the deep ironies of the eco fashion world, and getting into Biden’s congressional win for Climate Policy. Ethan Brown is a recent graduate of Boston University, where he studied Environmental Analysis & Policy and Film & Television. Ethan was never outdoorsy growing up, but after studying climate change, he felt compelled to use his years of comedy writing experience as Editor-in-Chief of his high school and college satire publications—The Gorilla and The Bunion—to communicate environmental issues in an entertaining way. With some free time during early quarantine, Ethan launched The Sweaty Penguin Podcast. Since then, the podcast has released over 100 episodes, amassed over 19,000 downloads, showcased the work of professors from eleven countries, won six grants, became a PBS partner, and was honored at the 2022 Webby Awards. Through The Sweaty Penguin, Ethan aims to make climate change less overwhelming, less politicized, and more fun. Ethan has also served as Managing Editor of BU’s student-run earth & environment magazine The Emerald Review and currently serves as a Production Assistant for PBS/WNET’s climate initiative Peril and Promise. His favorite TV show is “The Good Place,” and he is passionately opposed to pineapple on Pizza.

Mickaela Grace, Founder of the Graceline Institute, discusses healing ourselves before healing the planet. Topics include fusing ancient teachings with modern technology, choosing love over fear, resetting the nervous system, the power of flow state and curiosity, the relationship between mind, body, and spirit in fashion and sustainability, taking responsibility, and sustainable brands.

On this episode of E.S.Now, I am with Scott Fletcher, sustainability activist and creator of Econus App.  Scott Fletcher, Founder & CEO of Econus, is a social impact entrepreneur on a mission to make consumption more sustainable!There’s a theory in economics called the Theory of Externalities. This theory states that if companies pay for all the costs involved with their production of their products, the issues we’re seeing today would be nearly non-existent. When they don’t pay for these costs, we see the results, like air pollution and waste, these are the externalities. From this theory The Active Consumer philosophy was born. The Active Consumer recognized that us normal folk may not be able to force producers to include all costs, but we could support organizations that can, and with enough of us, real change could be made. From that concept our mobile app, Econus, was born. Econus links your purchases to the unintended consequences of the purchase (like air pollution from a tank of gas), and donates your spare change to an organization reducing the consequences to our environment and society (like the Climate & Clean Air Coalition).www.econusapp.com

Today I am with Courtney Moran, chief legislative strategist for Agricultural Hemp Solutions and legal champion for hemp agricultural development.  Hemp is one of the most useful plants on the planet, it is a carbon capturing monster, and easy to grow, but legal redtape has put the damper on it’s popularity among farmers in the US.  Hear how Courtney is leading the charge to change that. Courtney N. Moran, LL.M. founding principal of EARTH Law, LLC and chief legislative strategist for Agricultural Hemp Solutions, LLC expertly champions legal policy for hemp agribusiness development.  Courtney’s passion and her forward-thinking leadership have carved pathways making hemp an accessible agricultural commodity. She litigated the landmark case KaB, LLC v USPIS, MLB 18-39 (2018) establishing precedent for the shipment of hemp through the US Postal Service. Courtney played a key role in drafting and negotiating the language included in the 2018 Farm Bill federally legalizing hemp. Her extensive knowledge of Hemp Law continues to position her clients at an advantage in the marketplace.https://www.earthlawllc.com