Kelley Dennings's guest appearances

Kelley Dennings

Earthworms

The Overpopulation Podcast

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Ruth Soukup

Charles Eisenstein

Chris Browning

Matt Lebon

Ron Lieber

Nancy Lawson

Jeff Lowenfels

Ralph Nader

Doug Tallamy

Cameron Huddleston

Bob Gill

Trae Bodge

Larry Hagner

John Lanza

Bill Dwight

OwlTail

Guinevere Higgins

The Holidays are here and we can help you shift the focus from things to experiences with great advice from New Dream. In this episode, I talk to Guinevere Higgins and Kelley Dennings of New Dream. New Dream is a non-profit whose mission is to empower individuals, communities and organizations to transform the ways they consume to improve well-being for people and the planet.   Guinevere is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at New Dream. She is an ardent believer in the ability of individuals and communities to take action and ownership to make positive change. She finds the strategic partnerships necessary to support transformational activities on the community level.   Kelley Dennings spent 15 years in the recycling industry and now works with the Center for Biological Diversity, focusing on consumption's effects on wildlife and habitat. She works at the intersection of health, environment and social change, and serves on New Dream's Advisory Council.   We are releasing this episode during the Holidays because the focus of much of our discussion is about how to enjoy a season with more fun and less stuff. Also, a quick note. I should have had Guinevere step away from the mike a bit as her voice distorts from time to time. Entirely my bad, but this episode has so much good stuff that I hope you can ignore this production issue and enjoy the content.

AOA 028: How to Have More Fun and Less Stuff This Holiday Season with Guests Guinevere Higgins and Kelley Dennings of New Dream

So you know the "Three Rs," right? Recycle is the famous one, but #1 in this trio (REDUCE) deserves more creative attention and - use!                        In a  recent blog post, recycling professional Kelley Dennings considered why the recycling community may be ditching out on waste reduction. Dennings serves as Advisor to NewDream.org, one of Earthworms' favorite educational orgs. When Dennigs added a degree in Public Health to her credentials and influence potential, she framed the sort of off-putting Reduce idea of in the human-centered focus of Prevention. Could this be a way to get our species to explore more New Dream's territory? Their motto: More Fun - Less Stuff!    Resources that come up in this Earthworms conversation include New Dream's So Kind Alternative Gift Registry, an E-Z online way to request and give day-of-event help, shared experiences, homemade and secondhand gifts - and more. Plus references to Zero Waste, Scrap Exchange, Product Stewardship Institute and other Reduce-Reuse activity in the Waste Space.  Music: Cadillac Desert, performed live at KDHX by William Tyler THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms so-Green engineer Related Earthworms Conversations:  Zero Waste Fish Fry Hooks Holy Redeemer in STL (Feb 2018)  Life Without Plastic? (Jan 2018)  TerraCycle's Rockin' Founder Tom Szaky (Sept 2015)

So you know the "Three Rs," right? Recycle is the famous one, but #1 in this trio (REDUCE) deserves more creative attention and - use!                      In a <a href="https://newdream.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-waste-reduction-or-preventing-waste-in-the-first-place" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> recent blog post</a>, recycling professional Kelley Dennings considered why the recycling community may be ditching out on waste reduction. Dennings serves as Advisor to <a href="http://www.newdream.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NewDream.org,</a> one of Earthworms' favorite educational orgs. When Dennigs added a degree in Public Health to her credentials and influence potential, she framed the sort of off-putting Reduce idea of in the human-centered focus of Prevention. Could this be a way to get our species to explore more New Dream's territory? Their motto: More Fun - Less Stuff!   Resources that come up in this Earthworms conversation include <a href="https://sokindregistry.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Dream's So Kind Alternative Gift Registry</a>, an E-Z online way to request and give day-of-event help, shared experiences, homemade and secondhand gifts - and more. Plus references to Zero Waste, Scrap Exchange, Product Stewardship Institute and other Reduce-Reuse activity in the Waste Space. Music: Cadillac Desert, performed live at KDHX by William Tyler THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms so-Green engineer Related Earthworms Conversations: <a href="http://earthworms.kdhxtra.org/zero-waste-fish-fry-holy-redeemer-is-hooked-on-green" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Zero Waste Fish Fry Hooks Holy Redeemer in STL (Feb 2018)</a> <a href="http://earthworms.kdhxtra.org/life-without-plastic-jay-sinha-says-emphatically-yes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Life Without Plastic? (Jan 2018)</a> <a href="http://earthworms.kdhxtra.org/terracycle-rocks-recycling-founder-tom-szaky-and-a-local-program" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> TerraCycle's Rockin' Founder Tom Szaky (Sept 2015)</a>

Reduce, Prevent and Transform WASTE - with Kelley Dennings