Author: Divas@72

The Many Shades of Green ZoomCast with guest Keith Voos teacher, environmental facilitator, and workshop presenter for Pachamama and Drawdown.org

We welcome Keith Voos to the show to talk about what you can do to be a climate activist and steward of the planet. Keith is a teacher, and he has been presenting workshops for Pachamama (which means Mother Earth) and Project Drawdown. We all need to become active and take steps to be better environmental citizens. For more information, go to pachamama.org and drawdown.org. Check out malcolmpresents.com and thegreendivias.com. Tweet us @tmshadesofgreen

Food Systems, Community Gardens, and the pandemic

The current pandemic has highlighted problems with our food system, as food waste and food insecurity must be addressed more than ever. On this show Green Divas Meg, Max, Lisa and Elly delve into topics about food, how to get fresh food to communities in need, and how Community Gardens help in that area. We also discuss the need to build your immune system in the era of COVID, the Drawdown Project (drawdown.org), cows emitting methane (and no, it’s not cow farts), and the importance of growing your own food. Guest Dr. Susan Rubin talks about teaching children to garden, food pantries, gorilla gardens which helped start the Community Garden movement, and more. Check out the 50 Shades of Green Divas Podcast on Spotify, Buzzsprout, Stitcher, Apple Music, iHeart, and HudsonRiverRadio.com. Ask Alexa or Siri to play The Green Divas podcast, and check out the webpage thegreendivas.com

FEAR

FEAR by Mercy Faith (May 2020)

maybe we needed to slow down

maybe Mother Nature said enough is enough

humans are destroying the planet

by polluting the air, the land, the water

with plastics and toxic chemicals invading

our rivers, streams, oceans, lakes, mountain tops 

jungles, beaches, farms and lawns

we infringed upon the habitats of other species

killing them or turning them into trophies

something had to give, so a virus transferred

by a bat sent a plague into the world

the ME had overtaken for too long, became dominant,  

lost its way, and the WE had to take a back seat, 

now the WE is what will save us, 

as we retreat from the viral enemy

FEAR has a way to make people change their ways

yet the greed and stupidity is spreading,

we disregard death, 

human life doesn’t count, you can be sacrificed 

 ‘cause you’re old or you are a different color 

yet you still bleed red, you still die

clearly shopping is more important than living   

gotta go to the bar, gotta get a tattoo,

gotta go bowling for dollars, even though the

risk is great, only facts tell the truth

we can’t slow down, we have lost

our way, we need to respect each other

Mother Nature has taken charge, 

she is delivering a message from the universe

she is screaming at us to clean up our room,

clean up our act and clean up the planet!

or she will send bigger things to FEAR,

as this is only the beginning 

Earth Day at 50: what do we want Earth Day to look like on its 100th Anniversary in 2070?

This is a special addition of 50 Shades of Green Divas with Green Divas Meg, Lisa, Max and Elly. We have various special guests who answer the question: what actions can we take now to make the environment better in 2070, when the people of planet Earth celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Earth Day? Our guests include environmental activists in various fields including Ed Begley Jr., Raffi, Dayna Reggero, Harriet Shugarman, Seth Leitman, and more. We need to use our collective will to be active, in order to put measures in place to reduce carbon emissions. We are living in difficult times right now, but there are silver linings. Go to thegreendivas.com for more info.

Hunkering Down in the time of Corona

Over 100 million people in the U.S. are hunkering down and staying in place during these unprecedented and scary times. This episode gives information to help you get through and be calmer, more balanced, greener and a bit more optimistic. We don’t have to panic or hoard toilet paper, we need to try to center our psyches. Mother Nature is a bit happier, as the CO2 emissions are dropping, as everyone stays homes. Dolphins have returned to the canals of Venice, Italy as the water is cleaner. We can only hope that there will be some more sliver linings beyond the clouds. We are all in this together. For more info go to thegreendivas.com. #STAYSAFE #KEEPYOURDISTANCE

Eco-travel, Eco-therapy and Sexy Tortoises… Go Diego!

Wonderful show from GD PonderRosa Studios as Green Divas Meg, Max and Lisa chat about Eco-tourism and why we should consider visiting places that have been hard hit by climate change. We also discuss various ways that eco-therapy can calm our jagged nerves. Tune in to hear Silly Science Facts and learn about Diego the tortoise, who single handedly brought his species back from extinction. For more info go to thegreendivas.com

1908 Plastic, Plastic and more Plastic

We are a world filled with plastic bottles, bags, straws, packaging and more. Rivers, lakes, oceans, parks, highways, train tracks, fields are littered with single use throwaway plastic and it is damaging the planet. We can use our collective will to be more proactive and work to find solutions, as well as take personal responsibility. On this episode Green Divas Meg and Max delve into the plastic problem and give information and ideas about the problem and what can be done about it. We talk to Eileen Bastianelli, Founder of Eco Centric Solutions, who is a Plastic Hunter (she helps promote One Plastic Free Day) as well as a marketing advisor and eco-steward of the earth, about steps that can be taken to reduce plastic. For more information go to oneplasticfreeday.com. We also talk about the Octopuses Garden in the shade filled with plastic straws. We would love to hear from you, so tweet us @tmshadesofgreen, @50ShadesofGDs, @thegreendivas. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and tune in via thegreendivas.com on Spotify, Buzzsprout, iHeart, iTunes and ask Alexa or Siri to play The Green Divas podcast. #RaiseYourEcoConsciousness