Mike Shade's guest appearances

Mike Shade

The Money Pit Top Products Podcast

Low Tox Life

Bruce Lipton

Charles Eisenstein

John Gray

Jill Bolte Taylor

Steven Lin

Maya Shetreat

Becca Piastrelli

Zach Bush

Alan Christianson

Joel Salatin

Brodie Welch

Ben Lynch

Malcolm Rands

Steph Lowe

Brooke McAlary

OwlTail

Many weekend warriors don’t know that a particular class of paint strippers containing two toxic chemicals pose major dangers even while using your typical safety equipment that have lead to over 60 deaths.  Learn about the problem and alternatives for safer products from Mike Shade, Campaign Director for Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Many weekend warriors don’t know that a particular class of paint strippers containing two toxic chemicals pose major dangers even while using your typical safety equipment that have lead to over 60 deaths.  Learn about the problem and alternatives for safer products from Mike Shade, Campaign Director for Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Deadly Paint Strippers | Interview with Mike Shade, Safer Chemicals/Healthy Families

This week on the show it is my pleasure to welcome Mike Shade, campaign director for Safer Chemicals, Safer Families. It's one thing for us to know we don't want this stuff in our environments, homes and on our bodies, but it's another to find a way to effect change and move us forward. Mike Shade, in his work with Safer Chemicals, Safer families is doing just that. They're committed to getting retailers to use their power as a customer to the product makers, to get safer formulations made. So clever! It's an inspiring chat and I know for those of you who want to achieve more or feel like you and I do make a difference, you will LOVE it. Here are the questions I ask Mike and the show notes and sponsor offer for this month can be found over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Enjoy! Alexx x How you came to be an activist against toxic chemicals? Reluctant or always a passionate environmentally aware / health conscious person from upbringing?  Why did you join "Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families"? What did you see was missing / needed to really take things up a notch?  Today, a coalition of 450 organisations and most of the organising happening at Kitchen table gatherings - what was the road to get to a place where you have united 450 individual organisations to collectively take action?  Something I love in looking at the work you guys do is seeing "POLICY. RETAILERS. EDUCATION" buttons to explain the different levels of change making - can you talk us through each the the three. The role that retailers can play to protect consumers from toxic chemicals - see RetailerReportCard.com One of your greatest successes so far is giving rise to a growing movement among retailers to phase out the sale of deadly and dangerous paint strippers -- see https://saferchemicals.org/newsroom/the-home-depot-to-be-third-major-u-s-retailer-to-ban-deadly-paint-strippers/ - How did that start? What research did you gather / how many people did you organise and how?  Every activist has their 'pet chemicals' they're particularly vocal about / they champion... Toxic chemicals in food and food packaging - in particular phthalates and PFAS - see http://www.kleanupkraft.org/ - How did you come across this issue - how can we measure how toxic these are?  What do you believe has been your most successful campaign yet?  What are you working on at the moment?  Advice for the conscious consumer to kick things up a notch - how do they link in with your network if they're in the US?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the show it is my pleasure to welcome Mike Shade, campaign director for Safer Chemicals, Safer Families. It's one thing for us to know we don't want this stuff in our environments, homes and on our bodies, but it's another to find a way to effect change and move us forward. Mike Shade, in his work with Safer Chemicals, Safer families is doing just that. They're committed to getting retailers to use their power as a customer to the product makers, to get safer formulations made. So clever! It's an inspiring chat and I know for those of you who want to achieve more or feel like you and I do make a difference, you will LOVE it. Here are the questions I ask Mike and the show notes and sponsor offer for this month can be found over at <a href="lowtoxlife.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lowtoxlife.com/podcast</a> Enjoy! Alexx x <ol><li>How you came to be an activist against toxic chemicals? Reluctant or always a passionate environmentally aware / health conscious person from upbringing?  </li><li>Why did you join "Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families"? What did you see was missing / needed to really take things up a notch?  </li><li>Today, a coalition of 450 organisations and most of the organising happening at Kitchen table gatherings - what was the road to get to a place where you have united 450 individual organisations to collectively take action?  </li><li>Something I love in looking at the work you guys do is seeing "POLICY. RETAILERS. EDUCATION" buttons to explain the different levels of change making - can you talk us through each the the three. </li><li>The role that retailers can play to protect consumers from toxic chemicals - see <a href="RetailerReportCard.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RetailerReportCard.com</a> </li><li>One of your greatest successes so far is giving rise to a growing movement among retailers to phase out the sale of deadly and dangerous paint strippers -- see <a href="https://saferchemicals.org/newsroom/the-home-depot-to-be-third-major-u-s-retailer-to-ban-deadly-paint-strippers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://saferchemicals.org/newsroom/the-home-depot-to-be-third-major-u-s-retailer-to-ban-deadly-paint-strippers/</a> - How did that start? What research did you gather / how many people did you organise and how?  </li><li>Every activist has their 'pet chemicals' they're particularly vocal about / they champion... Toxic chemicals in food and food packaging - in particular phthalates and PFAS - see <a href="http://www.kleanupkraft.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.kleanupkraft.org/</a> - How did you come across this issue - how can we measure how toxic these are?  </li><li>What do you believe has been your most successful campaign yet?  </li><li>What are you working on at the moment?  </li><li>Advice for the conscious consumer to kick things up a notch - how do they link in with your network if they're in the US?  </li></ol>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Show #105: Mike Shade from Safer chemicals, healthy families, on turbo charging change for a safer future!