36 - Sustainable Summer!

Hello one and all, and happy summer! For this episode, we wanted to share some resources and news bits we found to be interesting, and encourage everyone to find ways to incorporate sustainability into their summer. 

Listen in (or should we say "keep watching" since this is our first video episode?) for a litter themed contest and please share your thoughts in the comments! We'd love to hear from you. 

Resources/articles mentioned: 

1. Aparna's stories
   1. Plas-Stick
      1. Times of India article
      2. Good News Network article
   2. Plastic Free July
   3. Climate Week
2. Kiersten's stories
   1. Reusable moving boxes 
   2. Earth Overshoot Day
   3. Litterati
      1. Instagram profile
      2. TED talk from the founder

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Hello to our friends of the pod. I'm Aprina. I'm Kirsten. And you're listening to Green Collar. Hello, pod people, and welcome to our summer special. So we are both bouncing around, moving from house to house, city to city, and we wanted to do a fun episode where we just share some cool stuff we're excited about and stuff that we've encountered over the last I don't know, month to 30 years. And hopefully it resonates with you guys. So our goal. We will be sharing three stories each. And we're hoping that y'all get hyped, get curious, and find ways to embed this into your summer. And just as general housekeeping, this is our first time doing a fun video episode. So we do have our notes on the screen, all the juicy details that we know you guys want. So if you see these little eyes a wandering, just know that they're for your sake and for our sakes. And you will get all the good deets on these sustainability stories. Kirsten, I would love it if you could start us off with a story about your recent move.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

Yeah. So first of all, good note on the looking aside, I cannot commit things to memory at this time. Maybe if we become like level two podcasts, we'll start memorizing.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

You never know. Evolution, the squirtle goes into the Vlastoise eventually, right? I guess that's level three.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

I wouldn't know, but I appreciate the analogy. And yeah, we're not we're not quite to memorizing all the facts. So I will also be referencing some stats here. But as apprentice said, moves are happening. Um peep maybe the the blank back falls that you died. Um versus the the friendly chaos. So I'm a little further along in my move, and what you can see is that I have a lot of books. Yeah, peep those boxes. Um you can imagine that hacking up all of these books is something. Let me tell you, the family and friends that helped move, as well as the movers, were like, this one's heavy, and it's because it was all books. But this was the first um first move in my 30s. So I did hire movers for the first time, and I'm exploring all kinds of new things, which includes renting boxes. Um, I feel like you guys probably know by now that we're always trying to experiment and kind of reduce our impact as much as we can individually, while also advocating for, you know, at scale change outside of our individual controls. Uh, but this cool thing for me. Maybe everybody else already knows about it. But I don't know. So people in my sphere were like, no, I've never heard of that. So I'm gonna operate on the assumption that it's not super duper common. But you can rent boxes and they're not plastic or they are plastic, they're not cardboard. So if um I'm getting into the pros and cons a little bit of these boxes, the biggest pro from a sustainability standpoint is the fact that they are reusable. And I can hear it now. We don't get that many comments, but if we did, maybe the commenters would be like, um, hello, you can reuse a cardboard box, which absolutely, absolutely you can, but less times, um, and you then still have to either store them or go in the past. What I've done in my re 30s MOOCs has definitely been look on marketplace, look on buy nothing, and ask people for boxes. Then I gotta drive and go get them, and then I have to store them so that I have enough and there's critical capacity and you know, kind of optimizations that you have to do. But with this, I ordered a certain number of boxes. For me, it was whatever they recommended for a two-bedroom. So that was 45 total bins. Um, and it was incredible because the rental price includes drop-off and pickup at your new and old locations, as well as labels and zip ties. The bin lids kind of like you know, if we if we use the video, you'll see they sort of click together. So you don't even really need the zip ties, but if it is a box full of books and you want a little extra security, they provide the zip ties too, and they provide dollies. So these bins are fitted into like not just your typical it's gonna tip off, but like a four-sided perfect match. So satisfying. Um, and they stack up so waterproof, not gonna, you know, crush, and you don't have to tape anything, nor do you have to run around town getting things. So I I was so impressed. Uh, you might be wondering too, what's the cost comparison? Do we have a green premium? What's up? I feel like you have the comment.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

I just have to say, I'm on my third roll of tape and it's expensive. So that's a good call that you don't have to use tape with these boxes.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

And also, if yeah, full disclosure, like I have given you some boxes. So on the reusable boxes, right?

SPEAKER_00 5:19

You've given me 90% of my boxes.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

We're definitely still on that train, you know. Like I already had some cardboard boxes, I use them. I think they're third or fourth gen from you because I got them for buy nothing, and then I held on to them and used them to move and then to move and now to give to you. So definitely options out there, people. But yeah, in terms of a green premium, just for point of comparison, so for a one-week rental for the 45-bin package, which should accommodate most two bedrooms if you don't have a library box, which is why I also had extra cardboard boxes had tucked away. Um, it's $169 with the company I use. And then for every additional week that you keep them, it's $55. So, point of comparison being around like $200. And I did crunch some numbers. If you were to buy brand new boxes, which again look secondhand first, and you'll it'll definitely be a lower price point than this. But if you were to go to, let's say, Home Depot and buy brand new boxes with the the spread of medium, large, extra large sort of thing, and the tape that you're inevitably gonna need, and maybe a Sharpie, it was sitting around $300, like $287. That's calculating a medium box at like $350, a large box at $498, so like five bucks, and an extra large box at $7. So just full transparency for how we got those calculations, but I think it's pretty cost comparable. I think the the only other con is maybe the fact that you are time-bound, so you're renting these for a specific period, and that means you have to unpack by the time that you need to return them. But to me, that's also kind of a pro, right? Because it's like get it done. You don't want to be living with boxes six months after your move, and this kind of prevents it. Um, they do also allow you to extend your rental while you have them. So if you thought one week would be enough, but you absolutely need a second one, you you could do that. Um, but I I actually felt two weeks, one week before and one week after was plenty of time. Um, and really loved it. I don't I don't know if I'll be going back. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

And then there are different companies who do this in different cities, right? Because you used one that was like DC specific and then like they wouldn't do between different cities, but they would do in like one area. That's a great point.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

Yeah, I did use one that's like specific to DC and Northern Virginia, but just search it up. Honestly, I would recommend searching like rentable boxes near me. And then if you are moving intercity or interstate or internationally, just kind of say like internationally. I did notice that U-Haul offers this service. Seriously, don't know how I missed this my whole life, considering I'm always renting a U-Haul job myself. But they also offer this service, so I would assume they could handle like interstate moves since they are a national brand. But yeah, check it out.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

I have no idea. That's crazy. I'm literally getting a U-Haul pod from them this weekend. Should I just ask for some boxes? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

So something to consider. Uh, but that's something in my life that I thought was really cool. Very curious to hear if the listeners have ever used rentable boxes, if they think it's comparable, silly, more convenient, less convenient. Let us know in the comments. But uh, what fun stuff do you have for us?

SPEAKER_00 8:45

The first cool thing, if you guys follow us on Instagram, you might have seen it over there. But we've been trying to do like a good news Friday kind of segment. So definitely check us out in general, but specifically on Fridays. And a couple weeks ago, we posted about this group called PLAS hypenstick, plastic, and it's a group made up of three teens from India: Vivan, uh, Chocharya, Ariana Agarval, and Aviana Maitha. And they just won the Global Earth Prize for repurposing tamarind seed as the base for an all-natural microplastic filter. And for folks not familiar, microplastics are essentially tiny pieces of plastics that are going to be less than five millimeters when you measure them. So this group has been able to develop a pretty cool solution that encourages microplastics to clump together and then can be removed by using a simple magnet after a short period of just letting the powder settle. So the solution uses locally available materials and requires no energy or really advanced infrastructure. So it's really interesting to think about applications where it can be scaled in rural and specifically low resource communities. And the reason why we think this matters is because over 2 billion people lack safe drinking water infrastructure. And that leads them to introduce, for them, necessary plastics into their lives, into their, you know, like water habits, which we all need water to survive. Um, and the introduction of these plastics leads to the introduction of microplastics, which are being studied globally and have been linked to serious illnesses by folks who are much smarter than us, at Stanford and the New England Journal of Medicine. And the kids from Plastic, they were inspired by these stories and by a field trip they took to a more rural community in India. And by interacting with the community members by watching how they access their water, which was from shared plastic containers that didn't have advanced filtration. And that started them thinking, talking. And like a lot of the great young minds we have around us, they took things into their own hands and have been a really cool success story that started from an idea based in a community and has a real use case. So things like that are definitely inspiring. And I think just always help renew the interest in this field, the love of this field, the curiosity. So that's my first story for you guys today.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

I love it. So inspiring. And I love your point. You know, we can be a bit of like a single-use plastic cater, but we are very aware that there are situations where there's just not really an alternative that still provides health and safety. So really cool to see them acknowledging that and still coming up with a solution. I love it. Very cool. Glad to hear. Yeah, so um I am curious. Raise your hand if you're on the call and you've heard of Earth Overshoot. I know we both have. Oh wow, what a coincidence. Yeah, have we talked about this this week already? Maybe. Um maybe on Tuesday. Yeah, but for those who haven't heard, um, this is a really cool concept. So Earth Overshoot Day, and we'll link the the website because there's so much good information that I I can't even begin to fully summarize um from sort of the scale of the problem, how they do their data, all the way to solution sets and ways to move back the date. But getting ahead of myself, we'll link that in the show notes. Earth Overshoot Day is essentially a fun metric to kind of track our interaction with the biocapacity of Earth. Um, I explained it to someone earlier by likening it to like all the other things. Okay, so how's my running going? Like, what's my latest mile pace? I have all of these metrics, and then I use those metrics to track how I'm doing, right? At a planetary scale, things get really hard to track, to even conceptualize. So, what this group does is they collect data on ecosystem services, essentially, in that biocapacity term. So, what is available to extract from certain environments for us to then use? And then comparatively, what are we demanding? How much are we demanding? Are we using more or less of that, you know, available resource set? So think about things like wildlife, um, the total amount of like clean water available in your local area and that sort of thing. Um, plants, like how much food can you possibly grow? How much food is growing, and how much are you actually eating, picking, and harvesting? Um, so when they do all of that, they put it into an equation, they divide by 365, 365 days in the year, and they get this earth overshoot metric. So it is basically what day of the year have we used all of that annual capacity um ideally in a balance system, right? That would be 365 out of 365. We're not exceeding the total available capacity. I guess I should also walk back. Maybe not ideally. Maybe ideally it would be lower than 365, but it absolutely wouldn't be greater. And as it stands for 2026, the Earth overshoot day is actually July 30th, which means by July 30th, just over halfway through the year, day 211 out of 365. In fact, we have used the annual biocapacity of the whole planet. Um, and a brief note on the we in that. So that's the annual average. Uh, one of the super cool graphics on the website that we'll link actually is a world map that color codes the countries. So certain countries obviously have different consumption patterns, which means when you crack those numbers down, there are countries that are operating at an ecological deficit. The US is very much one of those. Um, and then there are countries that are operating on an ecological reserve, meaning again, they're actually not using 100% of the available resources versus the deficit, we're using more than 100%. Um, and it shows as well, there's a great map where you can look at the country earth overshoot day. So, as another stat for the US, again, worldwide earth overshoot day, not great, July 30th for the US, March 14th. Mic drop in the worst way. So we don't even make it a quarter of the way through the year before um we've kind of used our share. Uh, if everyone in the world lived like the folks like us that live in the US, that would be the worldwide overshoot day. So we would be operating in a biological deficit and kind of borrowing against a negative balance that could really throw things out of the loop. So that's a bit of a damper. I do want to say again, the website um has all of these fun informational pages about solutions that already exist that if widely implemented and broadly implemented, obviously it should kind of focus on the areas like ourselves where we're we're consuming more than our fair share. But if we were to implement things like that, we can move back the date. Um, so so much good data. I'll leave it there. But there is a hopeful note. Go check out the solutions. Maybe there's some that you can implement in your your backyard. Who knows?

SPEAKER_00 16:35

I felt very corporate for a moment there. I was like, where did the unmute button go? Where did my cursor go?

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Sorry there, it couldn't come off a mute. It's all of us.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Yeah. Man, it is a crazy graphic. And I don't know, it's just something that not all of us think about, but I wonder if we were more aware of it, if that was something that we kind of had a lens of as we were going through the world and thinking if we want a plastic coffee cup in a, you know, like our iced coffee to go versus to stay. I don't know, maybe that would lead to some behavioral change and some other benefits. What one might have one can hope.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

So tell tell your friends, check out the website, share it around. Maybe next year we can get a better grade.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

I just on what August 1st, globally. Small steps, but steps nonetheless. Um, on the topic of plastic though, with that coffee cup example, ties right into the second story I wanted to share, but it's called Plastic Free July. You know, similar question to yours, Kirsten. If you've heard of this, will you raise your hand? Wow, I have a hand raised. Thank you. For everybody tuning in, uh, there is a cool website and an organization. We'll definitely link it in the show notes, but essentially, Plastic Free July is an initiative from the Plastic Free Foundation. And it's the largest plastic waste avoidance campaign on the planet. It's a really interesting one. It's all about change management and how seemingly small actions and adjustments to your daily life can have huge impact and really empower you as an individual, communities, corporations, and even governments to take action and reduce their plastic waste. Uh, the website has a bunch of really cool stories and examples out there, but as I was doing research for this, a couple that caught my eye that I thought would be fun to share were there is or there were a couple about birthday parties that were all hosted outside that used um reusable dishware, flatware, cupware. Cupware is not a word. Cups is I don't think so. Yeah, I don't know. Someone can fact check me. But yeah, just like using reusables as opposed to the one-time use, like paper cups, compostable, or sorry, yeah, paper cups, paper plates, any of that. Thought it was a super idea and really easy and probably cheaper in the long run. Um, in Melbourne, there was a group of teachers who host a festival every year all around reducing waste and really engaging entire school, the entire community around that. And it's just something they look forward to every year and a pretty big party with only reusable cups and reusable plates that all say, please reuse me. So, you know, really driving the point home. And then finally, there was a cool cafe in Sydney that caught my eye that only offers drinks in mugs and cups. And the cafe owner was pretty cool. She was like, I'm gonna go to all these cool thrift stores, like pick out quirky mugs and just have that be the aesthetic of a cafe. And eventually this caught on with all of her customers, and she had to like she didn't have to buy any more mugs because everyone would just bring in their own quirky mugs, leave them at the store, and it just turned into this like really good third space where you could deposit your mug, you come in for your cup, you have your mug that you already love to drink your coffee out of, and you build small community that way. So the reason we think this matters is really because you have to encourage at a person level as well as that systems level, and one doesn't work without the other, one's not more important than the other. And this is a really accessible initiative that values creativity and has a fantastic track record with a bunch of uh replicable examples. And there's a pledge. So if you, dear listener or us on this call, decided to partake in Plastic 3 January, you can always go online, sign the pledge, and be part of this movement.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Yeah, and I happen to know that if you sign the pledge, you get really cool emails with suggestions and fun stories, like the ones that were just shared. So makes it really easy and accessible. Like even if you forget, there'll be a little reminder in your inbox. So I love that. What's another way um to get involved? Maybe, maybe some upcoming climate weeks. Do you want to tell us about that?

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Yeah, I would love to talk about Climate Week. So, something we're both passionate about is spreading the word on how you can make a difference really here and just be a better steward towards the environment. And this should be obvious to everyone listening from literally our entire podcast, then also this episode. Um, and a similar like-minded group are the folks behind Climate Week. So those are gonna be the Climate Week organizers and just volunteers in different cities. And the cool thing about these organizers is that their whole mission statement is every city deserves a climate week. So they've compiled an interesting resource that has a lot of really good baseline templates for folks who want to bring Climate Week to their cities or for folks who are volunteering in. Cities that have a climate week that want to spruce it up, want to, you know, give like zhuzh it up a little bit, um, and just increase impact like that. So climate week. And I guess if someone doesn't know what a climate week is, the general idea behind it is you're gathering a bunch of like-minded individuals, i.e., people who are curious about climate, concerned about uh climate change, and also want to work towards fixing this problem and sharing ideas, sharing stories, really inspiring each other and having conversations and also taking action. So it's not all talk, it's not all do. It's a really healthy combination of the both, I'd say.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

That's really cool.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

That's uh it usually takes place. Sorry, I'm kind of excited.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

I didn't know there was like a resource package for any city to do that. Oh yeah, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

You could bring it to rest in Virginia, in fact. Yeah, it's an interesting um value prop. They have pretty much everything you need to get it going from the ground up, and all you have to do is get involved with them. You can get posted on their website, you get the packet that is essentially how to start from ground zero and go from there. But yeah, it usually stands an entire week. They touch a bunch of different topics. So the both of us are in built environments, so I've usually gone to those. But if you want climate finance, if you want renewable um energy, if you want agriculture, water, sustainability as a whole, corporate sustainability. And one of my favorite things is there's usually a food map that says, oh, these guys have sustainably sourced their produce here. Go eat at their restaurant. So if for nothing else, you'll get a really good sense of a city's food scene. But the reason why this matters and why we like Climate Week is, you know, you probably had a parent, a guardian, maybe an old boss who once said to you, these two phrases. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and many hands make like the work. And I think us in this space, we all want to be that squeaky wheel, and we all want this to be such an achievable lift for the community. And the more people who are talking about climate change and getting curious on how to engage, the more out-of-the-box ideas we're gonna have, and the more eyes are actually gonna be on the work we're doing. And as someone who's attended a handful of these events, has volunteered with the DC Climate Week, I can honestly say like the organizers are great. They are creating the skeleton, but the community that comes out for these things, it's crazy. And it's really the talk of the town, and everyone just has such good energy about them. Vibes are good. Again, the food scene, fantastic. And there's always a lot of really cool like engagement events, community events that have follow up. Like I've seen a really cool sustainability community be born in DC, in part aided by this kind of activity. You could say it fills your reusable cup, huh?

SPEAKER_01 25:11

In fact, I could, you know, my plastic-free July quirky mug at the cafe in Sydney. Even metaphorically, our cups are reusable. No, it's so true though. We gotta stay on brand. Yeah, the the community definitely does fill fill your cup. If it's just to use another fun turn of freaking adding to the squeaky wheel. Um, but let's say it is just you for now in your own little pocket, and you've only got your two hands, because to a print's point, many hands make like the work, and if you have a couple friends, throw your city a climate week. Let's go. But if it's just you, I we also have a final closing story of a way to kind of get involved um and and do some some cool stuff and be a squeaky wheel with litter. So imagine paparazzi and litter. If you merge them, what do you get? Someone decided. Literati. Yes, uh, we didn't literate litterati. We did name, but I I do appreciate it, and it does bring to mind some Lady Gaga song. But Literati is um, it's a couple things now, to be honest. I heard about it a a while back, and it was just, I think, an app at the time. Um, there's a cool TED talk by the founder, so we'll link that. Um, but it's become a kind of crowd source of data. And why would you want to analyze your city's litter? You might be wondering. Um, if you know exactly what is littering your community, it becomes a little bit more um tangible, and then you can use that data for even more tangible results. So things like litigation or just doing a really clear packaging footprint, um, setting up infrastructure investment. For instance, if you notice one block has 200% more litter than another, and then you also notice that that first block has a trash can and the second block doesn't, pretty good data-informed clue, right? That maybe it's not that folks just don't care. Although there's an argument to be made that, like, come on, man, it's just a block away. But still, if there was the proper infrastructure in place, maybe there wouldn't be the same degree of litter. So you can take that as a case to whoever your local movers and shakers decision makers are, and say, you know, we need a recycling bin on the curb of X and Z Street. And if we did, I can bet you this 200% higher litter rate would reduce in line with the other litter rates, which I can also tell you. Um, so it's this really cool geotag photos that make a slightly hard to gauge problem a bit more tangible and measurable. Um, so you can get the app, it's available on Apple and Android um in the Play Store. And essentially you just snap a photo of Litter where you see it, and then you geotags it, and then you can add description. So if it is, you know, a Starbucks cup versus a Dunkin' Donuts cup, and that type of information too can be a way that you go back to those generating the trash and kind of work, maybe you get some funding, etc. I actually do have an example going over to my notes. So one way that this was deployed in a super cool movement was San Francisco actually got an annual tobacco tax defended in court. And what was happening here is tobacco in this case being cigarette butts. So discarded cigarette butts were littering the street. I feel this is a tale, unfortunately, as old as time. And one of my largest pet peeps. But um, it takes resources to pick those up because they're tiny, they're small, and they're everywhere. Uh, but there are microplastics in cigarette filters, if you didn't know. So if you don't pick them up and then they end up in storm drains, that's basically a direct path for microplastics to go live in our water because, of course, the storm drains feed into the water systems in your local environment. So it is really important that they don't stay where they are. Um, so San Francisco City officials decided to act. They believed that the tobacco industry should be somewhat responsible because they are, of course, there's a consumer in the middle, but they are the ones generating this and deciding to not make them biodegradable, to have microplastics, et cetera. Um, as well as the people that are littering them, which again, if I shake my fist at you, I hope everyone's watching that video and can see my old. Come on, do better. Um, disappointment. But uh um, old man crumbs aside, they they worked with I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. Just a big thumbs down. We love one of those. That is my favorite uh road rage activity. If someone throws a butt out, get next to them and give them a thumbs down. I have done that to my husband's shame many times. Anyway, so Literati worked with the city of San Francisco to basically collect representative samples in different areas in the city and document with auditable and verifiable methods and then the data that comes out of those methods to kind of say this is where the cigarette butts are coming from and whose cigarette butts they are. Uh, and based on that data, the court not only ruled in favor of the new cigarette sales tax, but the tobacco industry, um, sorry, that the tobacco industry had contested, but they actually doubled the size. The initial sales tax was doubled. So a win because where did that money go? The money was then allocated to help clean the streets and increase consumer awareness about the impact of those cigarette butts on the city and of course the nearby bay, being that this was in San Francisco. So, really cool, probably a bit long. We're not, again, video. We have less editing capability. Sorry if that was too monologue, listeners, but super, super cool. Check out the app. Um, I've heard of so many other like interviews with the founder where he's used it with elementary school kids and all kinds of stuff. But at the end of the day, if you're on a summer walk, which we highly encourage you to get outside, enjoy, um, or if you're on a summer vacation in a new city, you can be litter paparazzi. You know, make a game of it. We love some gamification, right? So go take a walk, look around you. And as you're taking in the beautiful sites, if you do happen to see there's some litter there, then snap a photo of that and be a part of the solution just by kind of looking and seeing and exploring your environment. So it's a pretty fun, low effort way to potentially make a difference. Do some crowdsource data acquisition.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

I like that. Take a photo, and then maybe take a page out of Pearson's book too and organize a little cleanup. You know, get your get you and your rank tag gang put together, get some tongs, get some bags. Just start making a little bit of a difference and clean up a street. I know mine could use that.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

This is giving me now. My wheels are turning. Like we could gamify further, and you know, who can pick up the mode figure? But I think so. Yeah, yeah. Maybe there'll be another prize. That is true. So listen for our listeners, send a photo and yes, use Literati or just send it to us. We we won't do as much with the data, but like let us know. Cleanup. Maybe we can do um, I have some thoughts. Some a cool yeah, book or maybe some swag, reusable stasher packs.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

Maybe if you get a lot of cigarette butts in a photo, we'll send you a like a candy cigarette. Just you know, keep on a little sneaky snow. No waste.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

Yeah. Or a custom piece of artwork. Since we do that in our thank you notes for guests, we could we could do it or I don't know. There's some ideas. I think that I think it's been mentioned before too. A couple years in a row, I've done a B earth day. So Earth Day April, April 22nd for anyone. But if you missed it and you're like, oh shucks, what's your birthday? Just make birthday, you know, play on words, a second earth day. It's a great time to guilt your friends into uh doing things like a cleanup. It's for my birthday, it's for the they have to say yes. They have to say yes. Yeah, so take that. Let us a photo.

SPEAKER_00 33:39

We would love to see that. That'd be so fun. Maybe you'll even get posted on our socials. Sure. This could be you'll definitely get posted on our socials.

SPEAKER_01 33:49

Green collar movement. The Earth Day. Nice. But speaking of movements and summers and birthdays, um, I know we got a lot going on, so I think we we could probably wrap this up.

SPEAKER_00 34:04

We'll cut it, but it's been real, guys. Happy summer. We'll I think we're taking a little break after this, too. So we're gonna take some time off, you know, collect our thoughts, collect our trash, and we'll be back with you guys before you know it. Absolutely. Yeah, thanks for giving us happy summer flex. Hags signing off. Hags fly last. Okay, bye guys. If you liked what you heard, don't forget to like and subscribe wherever you get this podcast. And if you have any questions on the episode, ideas for future topics, or just want to say hi, please send us an email at thegreencollarpod at gmail.com or find us on Instagram and LinkedIn at green collarpod.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

Before we go, just a quick note that opinions expressed in this podcast are our own and do not reflect the views of our employers or any organizations we're affiliated with.

SPEAKER_00 35:03

Until next time, stay curious, stay inspired, and obviously sustainable, and we'll see you on the next episode of Green Collar.