Start Sharing (Part 2 with Janelle Orsi)
Want to share more Stuff, but don’t know where to start? In Episode 17 of The Good Stuff, Annie sits down with sharing champion and legal rebel Janelle Orsi. Their...
All About Sharing
(Part 1 with Adam Werbach)
In a world where too many of us are weighed down by ever-increasing piles, drawers, and closets full of Stuff, sharing provides a deceptively simple solution. In this episode, Annie...
Kids, Parents and Climate
“The best antidote to worrying about a problem is getting involved in trying to fix it. The same is true for our kids.” In the context of climate change, it’s...
College Heroes
Meet Alex Freid and Amira Odeh. These two young people saw something amiss in how their communities related to Stuff and decided to do something about it. From eliminating waste...
What Made the Mad Hatter Mad?
When a thermometer factory in New York closed because of increasing U.S. regulation of mercury, the operation was moved lock, stock and barrel to India, where enforcement of environmental laws is...
Green Chemistry
If it’s on the store shelf, it’s been tested and found safe, right? Guess again. Bev Thorpe of Clean Production Action talks about the hidden chemical dangers in everyday products...
Girl Scout Cookies, Orangutans and Palm Oil
In 2007, two kids in Michigan set out to earn their Girl Scout Bronze Award by raising awareness about the endangered orangutan. They learned that the orangutans’ habitat is being...
The People Have the Power
Protecting our health from toxic pollution is too important a job to be left to scientists, government regulators or even professional environmental activists. Annie looks at two communities, half a...
The Kids Who Care Challenge Crayola
If you laid all the Crayola plastic markers made each year end to end, they’d circle the earth three times – and they’re not recyclable. Some California kids are campaigning...
Annie on Climate Change and Looking Back at Five Years of SOS
Our latest podcast turns the tables – or rather the microphone – on Annie as she’s interviewed by Jearlyn Steele of WCCO-AM in Minneapolis. Given the recent shift in public...
Workers as Owners
From corner bakeries to one of Spain’s largest companies, worker-owned co-ops around the world are providing an alternative model to business as usual. Annie talked with worker-owners of the Evergreen...
Don’t Just “Be the Change” — Make Change
Being a changemaker is about intention AND action. In Part 2 of our special podcast accompanying The Story of Change, Annie talks with leading changemakers about how they do it....
How You Show Up in the World
Being a citizen is about acting on our responsibility to stand up for the planet and other people. Being a citizen isn’t about where you were born or whether you...
Fix it, don’t nix it!
“If you can’t fix it, you don’t really own it.” That’s the manifesto of the growing movement to make our Stuff repairable rather than disposable. And some people are going...
Getting Started
Know someone who says they’re too busy to reduce their waste? Or says it’s too hard? A very busy wife, mother and entrepreneur near Philly shares how she did it!...
