Climate Change
The VG Daily: 022 - Charities and Challenges
Determined to get to 100 subscribers on YouTube, I've set myself a new challenge to get to 100! If I do, $100 will go to one of the following charities fighting climate change...But which?!
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Funday Monday
The VG Daily: 021 - Funday Monday: Picking A Partner!
On the 2nd ever Funday Monday, I decided to talk about something a friend recently asked me: how do you pick a boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife? How do you know they're the one? So I came up with an analogy that I think perfectly fits the bill!
Podcast
The VG Daily: 020 - How to Make Meaningful Changes
So we talked about why I'm quitting meat: the emotional and logical reasons, but how do we go from deciding to do something, to acting? Making changes to your life is hard, so what we can we do to maximize our chance of continuing to do something we
About Me
My Initiative Journey: Exercise 4 - 10 Friends and Family Members
As per my last project update, I've now decided on a project, which wasn't part of the original set of projects, but it's one I'm much happier with. Exercise 4 - 10 Friends and Family Members * Present your project to 10 people
About Me
The VG Daily: 019 - Why I'm Quitting Meat Part 2: The Science
Continuing yesterdays discussion about why I'm quitting meat. We talked about the emotions and feelings involved in eating meat, then we thought about how that meat is connected to the world around me. Today, we're going to look a little bit into some science behind those
About Me
The VG Daily: 018 - Why I'm Quitting Meat Part 1: Feelings and Emotions
If you've listened to past episodes, you know what it means now to Live ECO, but now we need to apply it to our lives! Today, I wanted to share my experience with becoming environmentally-conscious about meat. Tomorrow, we'll get into the science and the reasons
eco living
The VG Daily: 017 - I'm ECO. Now what?
I talked before about how to me, to live ECO means to live a life that is Environmentally-COnscious. Becoming aware of our connection to nature is the start to a sustainable life...But it's only the start. What do you do next?
About Me
The VG Daily: 016 - Funday Monday: Meet Eugene!
First ever Funday Monday! Where we forget about ECO stuff for a day and do something random and/or fun. Today I decided to just talk about myself so you guys can learn more about who I am and why I do what I do! We also end with some
Podcast
The VG Daily: 015 - Biden, Trump, & America's Polarization
As much as possible, I want to keep politics out of the Verdant Growth Daily, since I believe that the environment is NOT a political issue. But from time to time, it's natural that it's going to come up. So today I wanted to just give
Climate Change
The VG Daily: 014 - The Paris Accord
Congratulations to new President Biden! I'm really excited for the future of our planet now that we have a president that listens to and respects science. Biden has re-entered us into the Paris Accord...But...What is the Paris Accord? That's what we're talking
Interview
TSL: Solve For Nature - 001: Joshua Spodek Part 1
Episode 1 of This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature is now live! Joshua Spodek PhD MBA is a three-time TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, host of the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast (Now rebranded to This Sustainable Life), and professor at NYU.
Podcast
The VG Daily: 013 - "Throw Away"
We throw away things from our lives every day. But the term "throw away" tells us everything we need to know about what we're doing. We're not making things disappear. We're just moving them away from us. We're just changing