Previous Impact Episodes
Impact with John Shegerian produces new episodes every week. Visit regularly to explore our archive of past conversations below.
Incentivizing E-Cycling with ecoATM’s Mark Bowles
ecoATM began with a simple idea: Make recycling convenient and immediately incentivized, and more people would participate.
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Leveraging Green Technology with Protei’s Gabriella Levine
Levine mixed her physical computing talents with a passion for biological motion in hardware in collaboration with Protei on a fleet of autonomous sailboat drones built to absorb oil near oil spill sites.
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Discovering Green Alternatives with Green Apple Supply’s Stephanie Tobor
Green Apple Supply was founded to “level the playing field” of the prices associated with healthy, greener alternatives to everyday household products.
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Making a Green Impact When Dining Out with Green Restaurant Association’s Michael Oshman
The Green Restaurant Association creates a systemic change for businesses to make the proper eco-choices by saving energy, saving water and cutting waste.
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Meeting the Growing Demand for Food with Monsanto’s Michael Doane
Monsanto has three priorities: meeting the growing demand for food, doing that in a way that produces more while conserving more and improving agricultural workers’ lives.
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The Cinematic History of the Environmental Movement with A Fierce Green Fire’s Mark Kitchell
Filmmaker Mark Kitchell had an “I can’t believe nobody has done this” moment in the early 2000s when he thought up an idea to make a cinematic history of the environmental movement.
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Combating Food Waste with Society of St. Andrew’s Mike Waldmann
Society of St. Andrew saves fresh produce and provides it to feeding programs in each of the contiguous 48 states in an effort to combat this growing trend.
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Putting an End to Drunk Driving with Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s Jan Withers
MADD aims to stop drunk driving, support drunk-driving victims and prevent underage drinking. MADD has 1,400+ certified victim advocates across the U.S.
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Eat Right and Lose Weight with The Wellness Forum’s Dr. Pam Popper
“Dieting” as we know it does not work — it’s all about eating the right foods, not calorie counting and portion control, says Dr. Pam Popper.
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Investigating America’s Food Crisis with Organic Authority’s Laura Klein
Organic Authority is an online magazine about delicious food and healthy living with organic recipes, articles, how-to primers, cooking videos and more.
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Remanufacturing Consumer Products with Clover Technologies’ Rich Fischer
Clover offers a sustainable solution — an environmentally superior and better economic choice compared to brand new cartridges.
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Providing Renewable Energy Resources with Local Clean Energy Alliance’s Al Weinrub
The alliance’s goal is to harness energy sources locally as a means of equitable wealth for urban communities and to help communities realize that not all renewable energy is created equal.
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