Dedicated to learning how humanity is innovating against climate change. Eavesdrop on conversations with the leaders taking climate action in business, culture, politics and emerging technologies. The need for action is great and the opportunities for civilization to take it are even greater. We have One Earth, let's not take it for granted!
Oco Crew is a grassroots nonprofit designed to make climate action convenient and easy. Follow @oneearthpod on instagram and visit ococrew.org for more info.
In this clip from episode 4 "Replacing Plastic With Seaweed (https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ePjIQEiA3yHszGsuU3aqR?si=2b81d146bdae4759)", Alyssa Pace, the communications lead at Sway (https://swaythefuture.com/), discusses some of they key differences between bio-degradable, industrially compostable and home compostable products.
Sway is a biomaterials startup that uses seaweed to make home-compostable alternatives to petroleum-based plastic packaging. As one of their guiding principles, regenerative design ensures that Sway's products replenish the planet rather than pollute ecosystems, exhaust resources or emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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22 Apr 2024
Replacing Plastic With Seaweed
In this episode I am joined by Alyssa Pace, the communications lead at Sway (https://swaythefuture.com/), a biomaterials startup that uses seaweed to make home-compostable alternatives to petroleum-based plastic packaging.
We discuss the quality and impact of plastic alternatives, what home-compostable really means, the power of regenerative design and what stands in the way of a future without ubiquitous petroleum-based plastics.
Sway is being piloted with brands like J. Crew, Burton and more and has taken the bioplastics world by storm, winning first place in the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize (https://unwrapthefuture.org/#phase-I) and was one of four winners of the 1% For The Planet's Summit Awards (https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/stories/meet-the-4-winners-of-this-years-inaugural-summit-awards-program-and-learn-about-their-environmental-impact#:~:text=Highlighting%20Leadership%2C%20Partnership%20and%20Change,awards%20created%20by%20member%20Awardology.) in 2023.
Made to scale, Sway's thermoplastic seaweed resin, named TPSea (https://swaythefuture.com/tpsea), is designed to fit into existing plastic manufacturing systems. With 400 million tons of new plastic created annually (https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/guides/singleuseplastics/healthimpacts#:~:text=40%20percent%20of%20plastics%20is%20for%20single%2Duse%20purposes.&text=They%20share%20a%20multitude%20of,every%20aspect%20of%20our%20lives.), innovations like TPSea that don't require new processes for manufacturing have immense potential for environmental impact.
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LEARN about and HELP fund verified climate projects with Oco Crew (https://www.ococrew.org/), a grassroots non-profit making it easy to take climate action. Sign up for our free quarterly newsletter at OcoCrew.org (OcoCrew.org) and join the growing group of people from all over the world that believe collective climate action has the power to make an impact.
Social Media:
One Earth Podcast (https://www.instagram.com/oneearthpod)
Oco Crew (https://www.instagram.com/oco.crew/)
Music by Yoni Keynan (https://yonikeynan.bandcamp.com/)
Huge thanks to Moh Dalloul (https://mohdalloul.com/) for post production help
29 Dec 2023
Am I Too Old To Save The Planet?
A Boomer's Guide to Climate Action
Former foreign correspondent and vice president of the World Resources Institute, Lawrence MacDonald shares his call to action for Baby Boomers to step up as the "most powerful generation in the most powerful nation" in the fight against climate change. His book, Am I Too Old To Save The Planet (https://climateboomer.org/) was recently named a noteworthy new book on climate and the environment by the Financial Times and provides clear direction for how to make an impact in 2024.
Resources from our conversation:
Am I Too Old to Save the Planet? (https://climateboomer.org/) (book)
How to Find Joy in Climate Action (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsOJR40M0as) (TED talk)
Citizens' Climate Lobby (https://citizensclimatelobby.org/)Climate Defiance (https://www.climatedefiance.org/)TH!RD ACT (https://thirdact.org/)Oco Crew (https://www.ococrew.org/)
Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/oneearthpod)
Music by Yoni Keynan (https://yonikeynan.bandcamp.com/)
10 Nov 2023
Fighting Climate Change From Space
In this episode I speak with Michael Grossmann about how satellites and geospatial data are being used to better react to natural disasters and combat the climate crisis.
Follow @OneEarthPod (https://www.instagram.com/oneearthpod/) on Instagram and wherever you get your podcasts to stay up to date with new episodes!
Resources based on our conversation:
Landsat - NASA (https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
Copernicus Programme - EU Space Program (https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/copernicus)
QGIS - Free Open Source GIS (https://qgis.org/en/site/)
Music by Yoni Keynan (https://yonikeynan.bandcamp.com/album/slipper-house)
This show is supported by Oco Crew, a grassroots non-profit aimed at making it convenient for people to crowdfund climate projects around the world. Learn more at ococrew.org (https://ococrew.org/) and on Instagram at @oco.crew (https://www.instagram.com/oco.crew/).
21 Sept 2023
How To Start A Climate Nonprofit with Ben Sterne
In our first episode I speak with Ben Sterne, the founder of Oco Crew, a grassroots non-profit aimed at making it convenient for people to take climate action by way of crowdfunding climate projects around the world. He speaks about how and why he started a non-profit despite having no prior experience in the space and why having an outsider's perspective is beneficial to any endeavor.
You can learn more about Oco Crew at ococrew.org (https://ococrew.org/) or on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/oco.crew/). If you like the show please follow wherever you get your podcasts.
Music by Yoni Keynan (https://yonikeynan.bandcamp.com/)
Gift of Life Marrow Registry (https://www.giftoflife.org/)
17 Sept 2023
Introducing The One Earth Podcast
Dedicated to learning how humanity is innovating against climate change, eavesdrop on conversations with leaders taking climate action in business, culture, politics and emerging technologies. The need for action is great and the opportunities for civilization to take it are even greater. We have One Earth, let's not take it for granted.
This show is supported by Oco Crew, a grassroots nonprofit designed to make it convenient and easy to take meaningful climate action. Volunteer run and crowdfunded by donations from everyday people, Oco Crew is able to help fund projects that remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and support local communities in the process. For more information, please visit ococrew.org (ococrew.org) and follow on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/oco.crew/).
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