Talking Trash: A Green Tips Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Kerry Aden from the Regional Water Providers Consortium joins Peggy La Point to talk about water conservation, including easy ways you can keep your yard healthy without wasting water and tips to use less water in your home.
Episode 61 features Cameron Starr, Senior Customer Service Strategy Manager with Energy Trust of Oregon
Episode 59 features Amanda Watson, Senior Policy Advisor for Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and talking about the city's Draft Climate Emergency Declaration
Episode 58 features Nadine Appenbrink and Rebecca Rottman co-founders of Utility Refill Pop-Up.
Episode 57 features Briar Schoon, Sustainability Manager for Portland Community College.
Episode 56 features Elsa Clements, Senior Compliance Specialist and Dana Bannister, Partner Services Representative at KEEN Footwear, and they both lead KEEN’s Green Team.
Episode 52 features Tess Beistel, co-founder of Cracked Pots and Kelly Caldwell, volunteer coordinator at Cracked Pots and ReClaim It
Episode 50 features Nick Isbister, Chief Recycling Officer at Innovative Recycling Group and Sustainability Advisor with the City of Gresham
Episode 49 features Kristin Leichner, Conference Chair and Gregg Hayward Education Chair from the Association of Oregon Recyclers (AOR).
Episode 48 features Dylan de Thomas, VP of Industry Collaboration for the Recycling Partnership.
Episode 46 features Wing Grabowski, Sustainable Communities Coordinator with the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Episode 44 features Lori Gates, Roberta Sommer and Cecelia Warner, members of Westside Master Recyclers.
Episode 43 features Jami Haaning and Kristin Connor, two of the co-founders and steering committee members of the Corporate Sustainability Collaborative.
Episode 42 features Kymm Nelsen, co-founder and co-chair of Conscious Capitalism Portland
Episode 39 features Sam Baraso, Program Manager for the Portland Clean Energy Fund with the City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, and Hannah Holloway, Senior Policy Analyst with the Urban League of Portland
Episode 37 features David Macek, Executive Director at EcoChallenge DOT org and Liz Zavodsky, Director of Organizational Development at EcoChallenge DOT org
Episode 36 features David Allaway, Policy Analyst at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
Episode 34 features Kim Smith, Sociology Instructor at Portland Community College and the Programs Coordinator for the Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network or GPSEN
Episode 33 features Corey Omey, Solar Oregon Board President and Joe Wachunas, staff member at Solar Oregon.
Episode 31 features Patrick Morgan, Recycling Specialist at Metro's Recycling Information Hotline.
Episode 29 features Alex Bertolucci, Green Business Advisor at Washington County Solid Waste and Recycling
Episode 27 features Laura Kutner Tokarski, Founder and Executive Director of Trash for Peace.
Episode 25 features Christopher Regis, owner of Green Century Electronics, a metal and e-waste recycler.
Episode 23 features Erica Dunn, Director of Design at Green Hammer, a design build firm based in Portland.
Episode 22 features Peter Glover, Director at SCRAP, a creative reuse non-profit in downtown Portland.
Episode 21 features Chloe Lepeltier, Content Creator and Community Organizer in the Portland area’s Zero Waste Community.
Episode 18 features Roger Ebbage, Coordinator for the Lane Community College Energy and Water programs.
Episode 17 features Julia Person, Sustainability Manager at Widmer Brothers Brewery. Widmer Brothers co-founded the Oregon Brewshed Alliance which advocates for the protection of forests and watersheds. The 4th Annual Brewshed Brewfest on May 15th will benefit their mission.
Episode 16 features Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. The mayor and I talked about Portland’s new single-use plastics ordinance that, depending on what happens in Salem, is set to kick in July 1st.
Episode 15 features Mel Vinson, District Manager with Laughing Planet, a Portland-based quick-service restaurant that sources clean, whole foods from local farmers and ranchers.
Episode 14 features Barry Firth, of Biokleen, a line of plant-based cleaners that are made in Vancouver, Washington. Barry and his wife, Cindy Rimer are Biokleen’s second generation of management.
Episode 13 features Tom Szaky, CEO and founder of TerraCycle, the company that’s about to launch Loop. Loop is a zero-waste delivery system for food and other household items and starts in New York next month.
Episode 12 features Jocelyn Quarrell, Owner and CEO of GO Box, a local company that offers a reusable take out container program.
Episode 11 features John Ashcraft, Manager of Receiving and Recycling at the non-profit, Free Geek.
Episode 10 features Lauren Norris, Manager of the City of Portland’s Master Recycler Program where she leads over 1600 volunteers.
Episode 9 features Chanel Hason, Chairwoman at Surfrider Portland and Nancy Nordman, the non-profit’s #DitchTheStrawPDX coordinator.
Episode 8 features Kristofor Lofgren, founder and CEO of Bamboo Sushi. Kristofor is also the CEO of the Portland-based Sustainable Restaurant Group.
Episode 7 features Alan Scott, Senior Associate at WSP. Alan is one of the first LEED certified architects in the nation, he also consults on green build projects throughout North and South America.
Episode 5 features Mike Mercer principal at MMercer Consulting, focusing on B Corps, he's also a Board Member at BLocalPDX.
Episode 3 features Karen Lickteig, Marketing and Sustainability Director at Nossa Familia Coffee.
We kick off the series with Joel Schoening, Community Relations Director with Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, otherwise known as OBRC. OBRC recently launched the first statewide refillable bottle program system in the United States.