savetheplanetfromplastics

In our global society today, multinational corporations remain faceless and nameless to us as consumers to the point where it affects our mental health greatly. We strive for fame, for being known, and in this increasing globalization of the world, our likelihood to rise slim down immensely.

In this episode, Helena talks about what we can do, from our conscious choices to how we treat the world at our fingertips we call our cellphones, all to cure this world's deep loneliness.

In this Episode, We Discuss:

• The consequences of a government focused on global growth

• Economics of Happiness: Localising instead of Globalising

• Changing how we see fame

• Decentralizing a global society

• Choosing local and developing relationships

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Climate change has been in people's minds since Al Gore’s efforts to expose the truth with his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” from a little over a decade ago.

But what a lot of us don't know is that there are larger forces with far greater impact than us individuals. Corporations produce so much waste that even the great former U.S vice president had failed to address or even acknowledge it.

Listen in this second part of a five-episode special with Helena Hodge as we uncover these larger forces and how the lack of acknowledgment and even awareness has bred the dominant narrative that it is us or human nature to blame for our world’s deteriorating state.

In this Episode, We Discuss:

• The root causes of Climate Change
• The things that are looked over in a normal Climate Debate
• The impact of industry and its advancements to Climate Change
• How economies have been dependent on big business to the extent that big corporations have the power to influence a nation's trade policies
• How we can move on from self blame for this global crisis
• The bigger things we can do other than planting trees to save our planet

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• Facebook @HelenaNorbergHodge

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Solving the ocean plastic pollution won’t be easy but we have no choice since the ocean is littered with million metric tons of plastics every single year.

This problem is a great threat to all the marine species and their habitats.

Everyone can do something to reduce the amount of plastic that enters the ocean and our guest for today is contributing in reducing the plastic waste that’s being thrown at the sea.

Join me in this episode as I interview Bureo’s co-founder and CEO, David Stover! Bureo, Inc., is a certified B-Corp with a mission to end fishing net pollution to help protect our ocean!

Find out how discarded fishing nets are turned into the most sustainable skateboards and sunglasses!

In this Episode, We Discuss:

• How Bureo started
• Intentional recycling
• Stats on why fishing nets are considered the most harmful ocean plastics
• The importance of having a disposal system in every fishing ports
• Ocean cleanups and tackling the source of plastic pollution
• Plastic recycling and greenwashing
• David and Bureo’s recycling process
• What is ocean plastics?
• Activism and why it’s needed to break into people’s and companies mindset
• Why being a surfer matters to David and what it entails for his business

Follow David Stover:

• Bureo Inc
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

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