Nicole McCallum's guest appearances

Nicole McCallum

The Eco Well podcast

The Eco Cast

Phil Loring

Dayna Stein

Jen Gunter

Nadine Baggott

Andrew Wallis

Anjali Mahto

Caroline Hirons

Sam Farmer

Tara McKenna

Michelle Miller

Britt Hermes

Jasmina Aganovic

Lauren Smith

Karen Gilbert

Tim Caulfield

OwlTail

In this episode, I spoke with Nicole McCallum, co-founder at the Waterloo Region Environment Network (WREN), current PhD candidate at Laurier, and professor, previously at the University of Guelph and now at Laurier University. Today, there’s an overwhelming challenge of misinformation, that you can see in just about any industry, including in cosmetics. You see “green” beauty products everywhere these days, but what actually makes a product sustainable? It’s obviously very important, especially in light of all of the environmental issues we see today, to move towards more sustainable practices… Unfortunately, there’s a lot of confusion about what practices will be sustainable, especially on the consumer side, which has been compounded by misleading marketing, media without the scruples to effectively interpret new research, and well-intentioned but ultimately misinformed individuals with a large platform. I truly believe that this misinformation challenge is one of the major challenges of our age, and I think part of the solution falls on everyday individuals. In today’s info overloaded world, we need to be better critical thinkers, which was the topic of this episode. In our conversation, we spoke about information bias, emotional decision making, human nature and our propensity towards certain ideologies, the Dunning Kruger effect, and steps we can all take to be better decision makers.

<p>In this episode, I spoke with Nicole McCallum, co-founder at the Waterloo Region Environment Network (WREN), current PhD candidate at Laurier, and professor, previously at the University of Guelph and now at Laurier University. Today, there’s an overwhelming challenge of misinformation, that you can see in just about any industry, including in cosmetics. You see “green” beauty products everywhere these days, but what actually makes a product sustainable? It’s obviously very important, especially in light of all of the environmental issues we see today, to move towards more sustainable practices… Unfortunately, there’s a lot of confusion about what practices will be sustainable, especially on the consumer side, which has been compounded by misleading marketing, media without the scruples to effectively interpret new research, and well-intentioned but ultimately misinformed individuals with a large platform. I truly believe that this misinformation challenge is one of the major challenges of our age, and I think part of the solution falls on everyday individuals. In today’s info overloaded world, we need to be better critical thinkers, which was the topic of this episode. In our conversation, we spoke about information bias, emotional decision making, human nature and our propensity towards certain ideologies, the Dunning Kruger effect, and steps we can all take to be better decision makers.</p>

Interview with Nicole McCallum about Critical Thinking and Better Decision Making

In this episode, I spoke with Nicole McCallum, co-founder at the Waterloo Region Environment Network (WREN) and current PhD candidate at Laurier. We talked about why she chose to study business and economics to be a change maker in the environmental space, how WREN started and what they do in the region, and better decision making for better sustainable outcomes - the part of the conversation that we focused most of our time on. There’s such an overwhelming problem with misinformation, which is seriously stunting our ability to move forward. An underlying part of progress will be knowledge, and it’s really important that knowledge is actually accurate. We spent a lot of time talking about critical thinking, information bias, the scientific method, interpreting research, and steps we can all take to make better decisions.

<p>In this episode, I spoke with Nicole McCallum, co-founder at the Waterloo Region Environment Network (WREN) and current PhD candidate at Laurier. We talked about why she chose to study business and economics to be a change maker in the environmental space, how WREN started and what they do in the region, and better decision making for better sustainable outcomes - the part of the conversation that we focused most of our time on. There’s such an overwhelming problem with misinformation, which is seriously stunting our ability to move forward. An underlying part of progress will be knowledge, and it’s really important that knowledge is actually accurate. We spent a lot of time talking about critical thinking, information bias, the scientific method, interpreting research, and steps we can all take to make better decisions.</p>

Interview with Nicole McCallum from WREN about better decision making for better sustainable outcomes