Mrs. Green's World
Mrs. Green offers simple, creative ways to adopt green habits that benefit individuals, families and companies, and are good for the planet. Everyone from retired chemical engineers to design-school millennials appreciate her authentic and entertaining style of communication.
Episodes
June 1, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green speaks with David W. Orr – Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and senior adviser to the president of Oberlin College. The Oberlin Project started as a joint effort of the City of Oberlin, Oberlin College, and private and institutional partners to improve the resilience, prosperity and sustainability of their community. Their aim has been to revitalize the local economy, eliminate ca...
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May 25, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green talks with Joaquin Ruiz who wears many hats besides Dean of the College of Science including Vice President of Innovation and Strategy; Executive Dean, Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science; and Professor of Geosciences. As a scientist with equal abilities in chemistry and in geology, Dr. Ruiz is able to address many first-order problems in the Earth Sciences, such as the development of new isotope systems for studying...
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May 16, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green talks with Danna Moore Pfahl, Director of Advocacy, Catalytik. The organization and guest are on the cutting edge of ideas and a stand for advancing human progress as well as building sustainable solutions to major societal issues. Danna has ten years experience advancing environment campaigns at the federal, state and local level. She is adept at grassroots coalition building from her work at Oxfam America, Global Excha...
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May 2, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green speaks with Greg Watson, Schumacher Center’s Director for Policy and Systems Design; Cuba-U.S. Agroecology Network, and thought leader for public voices. Introducing new programs while linking together the various educational and applied community economics programs of the Schumacher Center, he is a public voice for sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, new monetary systems, equitable land tenure arrangements, neigh...
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April 21, 2016 • 59 mins
Just what is El Nino? Mrs. Green talks to Zack Guido, Program Manager University of Arizona International Research and Application Program (IRAP) and Mike Crimmins, Associate Professor in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science and Climate Science Extension Specialist for Arizona Cooperative Extension to learn the answers. As far as El Niños go, the one we’re experiencing now is a doozy. In fact, it’s probably the s...
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April 14, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green talks with Mary Lou Dauray, award winning artist & consummate traveler, whose artwork reflects her concern about man-made climate destruction. She has done a series of paintings about plastic pollution in the oceans, the melting of glacial ice and the mining, transporting and burning of coal. And now she is focusing on the continuing future development of nuclear power plants by international corporate interests. Mary Lo...
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April 8, 2016 • 60 mins
Join Mrs. Green while she speaks with Amy Hall, Director of Social Consciousness at EILEEN FISHER. While 97% of all garments in the US are made elsewhere, they produce 20% of their fashion in Los Angeles and New York. Because of their use of organic fibers, they are supporting clean air, clean water and a healthy environment for workers and wildlife. Since Eileen Fisher is committed to dyeing all of their fabrics with safe chemical...
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March 24, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green talks with Carey Davidson, Founder and CEO Tournesol Wellness, and what the future of health care might look like. It is a home for highly personalized and compassionate care. Their services range from a comprehensive body-mind-spirit health assessment to vibration and sound therapy, acupuncture, yoga, meditation and more. They describe themselves as an oasis of peace and commit to identifying and treating all the physic...
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March 16, 2016 • 59 mins
If you have ever wondered if you could make the leap from normal size house to tiny house, I AM sure that you are going to love this show with Ross Beck, of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. In 1999, the first Tumbleweed was mounted on a trailer. The RV was named Tumbleweed because it had roots AND was mobile at the same time. At that very moment, the seeds for what has literally become an RV revolution were planted. Get ready to ...
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March 9, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green speaks with Deborah Fleischer, Founder and President of Green Impact. Think authentic, creative, professional, connecting to deeper values, inspiring green actions. These are a few of the things that Green Impact stands for. This organization has a REAL passion for moving organizations from vision into green action, launching new initiatives, forming new cross-sector partnerships, protecting critical ecosystems and bring...
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February 24, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green speaks with Sass Brown, founder of EcoFashion Talk, author, editor for Coco Eco Fashion Magazine and Acting Associate Dean, School of Art & Design, Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. As a researcher, writer and blogger, her area of expertise is eco fashion, in all of its different expressions, from slow design and heritage craft skills to recycle, reuse and new business models. Sass was also voted in the t...
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February 17, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green speaks with Will Allen, Farmer, Founder and CEO of Growing Power. Will is recognized as a preeminent practitioner of urban agriculture in America and throughout the world. He grew up on a small farm in Maryland, the second-youngest of six children of a sharecropper. His father had a strict rule about no sports until all farm chores were done. It served Will well as he went on to become a standout basketball player and th...
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February 11, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green talks with Michael Green, Executive Director for the Center of Environmental Health who, about ten years ago, founded the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) to raise public awareness of the corporate use of toxic chemicals and of the many viable, pragmatic solutions to this pervasive threat to public health. Since then he has helped lead national efforts to stop toxic exposures and protect public health. He has also p...
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February 3, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green speaks with Scott Leonard and Matt Reynolds, Co-Founders of Indigenous. In this case, Indigenous is synonymous with organic, fair trade, ethically sourced and guilt free clothing. The backstory: On a trip to South America back in 1993, Scott encountered the priceless beauty of clothes produced by local artisans. The richness of the culture and the amazing knitting techniques prompted him to bring back more than a souve...
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January 28, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green interviews David C. Korten, an American author, lecturer, engaged citizen, former professor of the Harvard Business School, political activist, prominent critic of corporate globalization, and "by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems." Imagine an economy in which life is valued more than money and power resides with ordinary people who care about one another, their community and their n...
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January 21, 2016 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green talks with Erin Switalski, Executive Director, Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), formed by a group of visionary women leaders in Missoula, Montana in 1995. Seeing that many environmental organizations at the time failed to include women in leadership positions and did not fully recognize the systemic connections between health, class, race, and the environment, WVE sought to create a new environmental organization led ...
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January 14, 2016 • 59 mins
How green is your investing? What do you know about the growing Divest-Invest movement gaining speed all over the country and moving millions of dollars? Will Social Security be there to sustain you in your golden years? Mrs. Green talks with Timothy Yee, President & Co-Founder of Green Retirement Inc., who has so many great answers. His extensive experience in the financial services industry of more than 19 years includes being a...
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December 30, 2015 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green speaks with one of her heroes, Tzeporah Berman, author of the book This Crazy Time, who has been designing and winning environmental campaigns in Canada and internationally for 20 years. Ms. Berman currently works as a strategic advisor for dozens of environmental organizations, First Nations and philanthropic advisors on clean energy, oil sands and pipelines. She is the former co-director of Greenpeace International's G...
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December 18, 2015 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green talks with Scott Harrison, Founder and CEO of charity: water, a former nightclub promoter in New York City who left his career to work on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, West Africa as a volunteer photojournalist. Returning home to New York City two years later, he founded the non-profit organization charity: water in 2006. Turning his full attention to the global water crisis and the world’s 800 million peopl...
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December 9, 2015 • 59 mins
Mrs. Green talks with Mal Warwick - author, impact investor, and activist who reviews books on his blog and is one of three partners in the One World Play Project, a social enterprise he helped establish in Berkeley, California. One World Futbol manufactures and distributes a virtually indestructible soccer ball that never goes flat. The company distributed more than 1,500,000 balls during its first five years, bringing the joy of ...
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