Local Green, HMB: Recent Episodes
Local Green
Interviews with local sustainable leaders from the Half Moon Bay Coastside Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/localgreenhmb/support
Our newest Half Moon Bay City Council Member talks about his hopes, dreams and visions for Equity, Farming and Sustainability for the coastside
Part I: Farmer Equity, Sustainability, the importance of Carbon Sequestration, and his vision for the new Farmer Co-op, Rancho San Benito
Part II: City Council Member, Joaquin Jimenez talks about Local Farm Land, Food Waste, Environmental Injustice, and Affordable Housing
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Doniga Markegard (www.facebook.com/donigam), recently in the movie, #KissTheGround and our own local #Regenerative Rancher (Markegard Family Grass-Fed), author, wildlife tracker here in Half Moon Bay California, discusses why it is so important to eat regeneratively and how animals are an integral part of land restoration and reversing #climatechange. Learn about Doniga's life journey and why she and her husband help regularly to regenerate and restore over 10,000 acres of our coastal terrace prairie land with regenerative ranching (land originally stewarded by the Ramaytush Olone indigenous people). She has written two books about her life: Dawn Again and Wolf Girl. Links:
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/wolf-girl/
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/dawn-again/
https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/initiatives
https://www.pointblue.org
https://untamedscience.com/.../ecology.../trophic-cascade/
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Lynn Adams, President of the Pacific Beach Coalition (PBC) talks about progress with street to beach trash clean up during COVID, why cigarette butts are toxic to us and wildlife, PBC events and education opportunities, and how to take action at home. Links: pacificbeachcoalition.org, Microfiber washer filter: https://filtrol.net, Cigarette Butt recycling: terracycle.org
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Holistic Health Coach and Herbalist, Glenna James of www.theholsticglen.com, explains her understanding of why we are connected to the the soil and our food. She talks about the energetics of plants, which foods can boost our immunity, and how over use of chemical cleaners, garden and agricultural applications can make us sick.
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Director of Agriculture Development at The Mushroom Farm, Nicolas Rotundo, explains how creating living healthy soil can capture CO2 and help reverse climate change. He discusses how, Rhize, the non-profit at The Mushroom Farm (with collaboration from local organizations) plans to support our farmers, gardeners, habitat restoration organizations, and forest service (on fire prevention) to build healthy soil...transforming landscapes and farming to create thriving healthy ecosystems with clean water, soil water retention, restoration of water and carbon cycles. There are opportunities to volunteer and school field trips in the future. Please seethemushroom.farm for more details and contact information.
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Founder, Evelyn Erickson, talks about the vision for Half Moon Bay's new organic community gardens to be opened Spring 2021. Vision: To be super inclusive to all community members, everyone that helps gets to take home harvest, regenerative carbon sequestering practices to be used to help reverse climate change, extra food to go to food banks and other community groups in need.
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Part II Interview with Shell Cleave of Seahugger.org. How to give back to the oceans during stressful/uncertain times. Changing plastic use habits with ease.
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Interview with the founder Shell Cleave of SeaHugger.org, Part I. Local coastside non-profit seeks to energize a community to become a model for other coasts in keeping the shores and ocean clean and educating people of all ages about sea life and how to protect our most precious mama ocean.
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Krystyn Kohler, Green Building Designer talks about recent advances in Green Building and how some methods are becoming more standardized. She has some great Green Living action tips to share at the end.
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This is Part 1 of a two part series. Green Living Expert, Krystyn Kohler, talks about living green during the stress of the Pandemic, how to make it rewarding instead of a chore, how to save money by making eco-friendly choices, and how to overcome common obstacles to living a greener lifestyle.
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