We are excited to introduce you to the Climate Reality Chapters/Branches who are sponsoring the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge Impact Summit! Meet Climate Reality Chapters: Eagle County, Colorado Atlanta, Georgia, Newark, Delaware San Antonio, Texas and Calgary Climate Hub Learn what they are doing. Discover how they are making a difference and how to get involved! The Impact Summit is Dec 13-17, 2020 and includes challenger interviews, happy hours, and next steps intensives. Register to attend the Dec 13-17 Impact Summit for free at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/summit. Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/greenteamacademy

Green Team Academy with Joan Gregerson, Eco-Nut

101: Impact Summit Sponsor Showcase – Climate Reality Chapters

 The pandemic and economic implosion have exposed and amplified the pre-existing flaws in our food system. Hunger, access to nutritious food, and the means of food production are more important now than ever. Tune in for my interview with Benu AmunRa, a food justice advocate in Colorado.   Benu is working on her masters degree at Naropa University, centered on Resilient Leadership with an emphasis on Sustainable Systems. She is pursuing a doctorate in Transformative Studies in Fall 2021.  Benu is active with numerous groups across Colorado that are filling the gaps. She will share about organizations that are providing training and resources for BIPOC farmers, food security measures for students, and much more!   Upcoming Events: Hunger Action Week - March 24-31, 2021 https://p2a.co/V8VXO2y  2021 Earth Week Summit, April 17-24, https://www.earthweeksummit.com 2021 International Climate Action Challenge, August 18, https://www.climateactionchallenge.net Resource Links: Alliance Center, Regenerative Recovery Coalition https://www.thealliancecenter.org/coalition/  Bee Campus USA – https://beecityusa.org/about/ Boulder County Health Dept. – https://www.bouldercounty.org/families/food/fruit-and-veg-boulder/ Boulder Farmers Market – https://bcfm.org/food-access/ Boulder Food Rescue - http://boulderfoodrescue.org Bronzeville- Black and Brown Growers Collective – Gathering of Peoples Event - https://gatheringofpeoples.splashthat.com/ Colorado Food Finder – https://www.cofoodfinder.org/ Community Food Share – https://communityfoodshare.org/get-food/ Emerald Gardens – https://www.emeraldgardens.farm/ Food Rescue Alliance - https://www.foodrescuealliance.org/ Front Line Farming- https://www.frontlinefarming.org/ Herbal Gardens Wellness – https://www.herbalgardenswellness.org/ HungerFree Colorado- https://www.hungerfreecolorado.org/ Karen Washington - https://www.karenthefarmer.com/about Leah Douglas - http://www.leahjdouglas.com/work.html Mo Betta Greens MarketPlace & Seeds of Power Unity Farm -https://www.facebook.com/mobettagreenMKT/  Naropa University – https://www.naropa.edu/ National Black Food & Justice Alliance - https://www.blackfoodjustice.org/ Project Protect Food Systems- https://www.projectprotectfoodsystems.org/ Soul Fire Farm- https://www.soulfirefarm.org/ Spirit of the Sun- https://www.spiritofthesun.org/ To contact Benu, reach out at benu11 (at) yahoo . com 

112: Benu AmunRa, Bridging the Gaps - Food Justice in Colorado

Film is a powerful type of environmental education that can reach beyond the classroom and the trail. Join me for a discussion with Shawna Crocker, founder of the Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF). Hear how the festival was started, how you can participate this year and in the future, and how to emulate their success. We're joined by Shiela DeForest, Mrs ECO-International and the founder of Golden Residents (and Friends) Eco-Action Team, one of the Exo-Expo exhibitors and an Eco-Champion Award Winner from the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge.  This year’s Colorado Environmental Film Festival will be entirely virtual, which means you can now enjoy the best of the fest at home! Watch over 70 films, short and long, featuring environmental issues and solutions from around the world. JOIN THE VIRTUAL FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 12 – 21, 2021 at www.ceff.net.  April 17-24, 2021 Earth Week Summit www.EarthWeekSummit.com August - December 2021 International Climate Action Challenge www.ClimateActionChallenge.net Green Team Academy www.GreenTeamAcademy.com  

111: Colorado Environmental Film Festival

Desperation is never a good look.  You've probably had this experience many times. When you act needy, the exact thing that you've decided that you need so desperately continues to elude you. Maybe we're all like those buds just below the surface, just so excited to pop! But unlike the buds who aren't rushing or feeling inadequate, it seems like there's a lot of anxiety right now about not having or not doing enough.  This is something that I work to manage in my own life every day.  In this week's Green Team Academy Podcast Live, I'll share my thoughts on how to: Handle the feeling that you need more time, money, or anything Discern the levels of having, doing, and being Consider the multiple forms of currency available in your life and your work Notice words that creep into our language that create the illusion of desperation Say no with gusto rather than guilt Switch the vibe from repel to attract Lean on nature for reminders on how to roll with grace Get clear about who or what you are working for so you can define success on your terms This episode is a gentle reminder that you are already enough! Climate Action Challenge https://www.climateactionchallenge.net Earth Week Summit https://www.earthweeksummit.com

110: Being Enough

What is biochar? How can you use it? Should you make it yourself? How can it build community? Find out in my interview with Charmaster, Tony C. Saladino. Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts - Stitcher, Apple, Google, Spotify Tony C. Saladino is a Charmaster, Biochar Educator, Founder and Guide for ECO-Tours of Wisconsin, Inc. As a participant in the 2020 International Climate Challenge, he met his goal of creating his weight in char and turning that into over half a ton of biochar, enough to enrich a dozen 4X10 foot beds to a depth of six inches, forever! He also taught a dozen more biochar classes so that more people would be able to do the same, cheaply and efficiently. https://www.climateactionchallenge.net In 1987, Saladino rode his bicycle around all five Great Lakes, teaching people in person, through TV, radio and print publications how to live lightly on the planet and experience a higher quality of life at the same time. Over ten million residents of the Great Lakes Basin heard him speak or read about his trip. Tony committed his life to "helping heal the rift between humankind and nature" as a child and has helped plant over 60,000 native trees and hundreds of thousands of native perennial food and medicinal plants across Northeast Wisconsin as an adult. He leads plant-ins, seed collection and dispersal tours, biochar classes, permaculture garden tours, canoe and bicycle trips across the region. He also advocates for the Earth Charter, www.earthcharter.org, which encourages people to utilize information from Environmental Working Group, www.ewg.org especially their Skin-Deep database of personal care products and their zip code specific water quality database. The focus on the six steps required to make biochar will help people understand how-to double crop production, sequester carbon, protect water quality, reduce the need for irrigation and fertilization by half, all while providing a host of environmental benefits. He will help people decide if they are better served by making their own biochar or purchasing it and for those who decide to buy, how to tell if the char you are buying is worth the investment. Six steps required to transform dry woody material into biochar: Make it by getting it to glow, without air Micronize it to bits 2mm or less. Moisten that material to as wet as a wrung-out sponge. Add Minerals Add Microbes Let it mature, stirring several times a day and keeping the moisture steady. Saladino and his group, are currently working to secure funding for an 80-acre parcel that will not only serve as a home base for ECO-Tours but allow guests to come and learn the principles of sustainability by doing. In a living laboratory, that builds community through diversity. The property will only be available for Leave No Trace Camping and classes in and about nature which helps guests understand and create more sustainable lifestyles. Support the new center via the GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/52fa3b77

109: Biochar Building Community, Tony C. Saladino

Join me for an interview with special guest, Renee Millard Chacon. In this episode, we'll talk about defining environmental justice, and what it means to be an ally to or accomplice with the BIPOC community. Renee Millard-Chacon is a writer, educator, Danzante Azteca, Xicana activist, and most importantly the mother of two sons. She is an indigenous womxn of Diné/Mexica descent, fighting for future generations and committed to relating climate justice to social justice. Her family is from the Denver community and she now works as a cultural educator and teacher. She works as the Youth Program Coordinator/ Cultural Educator at Spirit of the Sun and Co-founder of Womxn From the Mountain in hosting, organizing, and leading marches, workshops, and educational resources for social justice and environmental justice. She maintains her culture every day as a Sahumadora/Malinzin in Azteca Danza for Grupo ColorAztlan in Denver and Tlahuitzcalli in Boulder. Her goal now is to help in the circles she has the opportunity to engage in to move forward to heal through environmental awareness, transformative education, and support to diverse leaders ready to fight for future generations. She welcomes any respectful correspondence to start doing the tedious but powerful work of creating better relations in spaces that deserve to be healed because of the trauma from historical inequality and environmental racism. If you have any questions about Spirit of the Sun programming, please email Renée at reneemchacon@spiritofthesun.org Renee is working in Colorado to define environmental justice for legislation. Renee worked with 350 Colorado, Conservation Colorado, Western Conservation, and many environmental organizations to address how womxn and children are often trafficked in these same areas affected by exploitative practices, such as fossil fuel development. In a collective effort with the International Indigenous Youth Council, they presented an art installation on 16th Street Mall in Denver to highlight Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn, Black Womxn, and Migrant Womxn by hanging red and black dresses individually dedicated to a womxn missing or deceased. During the strike with Greta Thunberg, they painted handprints over the mouths of hundreds of individuals to continue to bring attention to these silenced individuals. Renee provides fee-based cultural and allyship trainings for groups and organizations. Get ready for the 2021 International Climate Action Challenge! Register now for early bird pricing! Each purchase creates a scholarship for another person or team. 

108: Relearn & Reimagine, Renee Millard Chacon

What's brown and green and piles up on beaches? Join us to find out! Dr. Franziska Elmer is a marine biologist and one of the team that is launching the Sargassum Podcast. Find out about the issues and opportunities that Sargassum present and how to tune in to this newly released podcast. This project was launched as part of the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge. Read more and find their social media links from their team profile: https://blog.climateactionchallenge.net/20-49-sargassum-podcast/ How to Listen to the Sargassum Podcast: Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google, Spotify or wherever you catch your podcast. Watch on YouTube at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJmthP9YWdLQbvb7dJz27Id1RUvUam3Z5 (video).  For more info on the podcast visit the website: www.marinefrontiers.org/sargassum or follow the podcast on social media: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Sarg-Pod-106071801358410 Twitter https://twitter.com/sargassump Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sargassumpodcast/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/70874741/ Green Team Academy Podcast Listen to the podcast on the Green Team Academy Facebook Page or YouTube channel live, or find it where you listen to podcasts or on the Green Team Academy website. Ready to Make a Difference in 90 Days? #BeTheChange Get Climate Action Challenge books, courses, and coaching at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop

107: The Sargassum Podcast, Dr. Franziska Elmer

Tired of being ineffective while watching the state of planet degrade before our very eyes? If you've tried bunches of others things to no avail, don't worry. It's not your fault. Anyone can make an impact quickly, once they know how. This episode was recorded on January 6, with 106 days until Earth Day, April 22, 2021. That's plenty of time to make a difference. Tune in to learn about the Weekly Action Plan Checklist from the Climate Action Challenge book and workbook. Find out about courses for challengers and communities. Get books, coaching, and courses at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop

106: How to Make a Big Splash by Earth Day

Join me for a look at 2020! I'll take you on a ride through the ups and downs of life with the Green Team Academy. Find out how the Climate Action Challenge came to be and what our global community achieved, even during a pandemic.  Books, courses, and coaching available in our shop at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop

105: The Year in Review

Tune in to meet the award winners from the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge! Our Team https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/team  Mentors https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/mentors Challengers https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/challengers  Find out what they did in the 90 days between Sep 1 and Nov 30, 2020. Get support in making a huge eco-impact fast! Find the Climate Action Challenge book, workbook, courses and coaching at: https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/shop Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/greenteamacademy

104: ICAC20 Eco-Champion Award Winners

Get a quick overview of the schedule for the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge, with new special guests! View the entire schedule here: https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/schedule

103: Dec 13-17 Impact Summit Schedule Preview

2020 International Climate Action Challenge Impact Summit From September 1 to November 30, over 100 challengers took up the charge to make an impact...fast! Hear what they've achieved in the Impact Summit, December 13 - 17, 2020. In this podcast, Joan gives a preview of the summit schedule and sponsorship opportunities. Learn more at www.climateactionchallenge.net

100: Preview of the Dec 13-17, 2020 Impact Summit

The Philippines is very low on the carbon emission scale and yet is one of the countries with the highest risk for experiencing issues from climate change. Tune in for my chat with Dann Diez, SEED4COM Founder, and CEO, to hear how they are responding and what all of us can do.  Typhoons, flooding, solar lamps, and gardens Let's talk issues and solutions with Dann Diez, founder of SEED4COM - Responding to Typhoons Rolly & Ulysses with flooding at depths of 5 meters in the Luzon area - With every disaster: energy access, food, and communications are issues - With flooding, lots of plastic trash washes us. Looking to build housing from eco trash with eco bricks - Partnering with Eagle Scouts to build solar lamps. These are built and repaired in the communities The Philippines is one of the most at-risk countries from the climate crisis, though they are low on carbon emission output. https://www.amnesty.org.uk/philippines-country-most-risk-climate-crisis As a mentor in the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge, Dann is working with Earth Fairies and Juan for Nature as part of the Philippines Food Gardens Movement https://www.facebook.com/foodgardensmovementPH/ https://www.facebook.com/SEED4Com/photos/a.696199917083399/3470419182994778/ 2020 International Climate Action Challenge https://www.climateactionchallenge.net  Green Team Academy Podcast https://greenteamacademy.com/99-dann-diez-climate-justice-philippines/

099: Climate Justice Philippines with Dann Diez, SEED4COM

How can you create a sustainability nonprofit or a business, that is sustainable for you? Many people run into the problem of creating a startup that ends up wearing them down, instead of energizing them. Tune in to my discussion with business and communications strategist, Ashlee Tate, to learn how to avoid the common mistakes, so you can create a life you’ll love. Register for the Dec 13-17 Impact Summit at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/summit

098: Ashlee Tate - Creating a Business or a Nonprofit, and a Life You'll Love

Half of the earth’s shallow-water corals have disappeared in the past 30 years. The remaining half is at risk of disappearing in the next few decades. What can be done? Tune in for my interview with Jolyon Collier to find out how Counting Coral uses coral sculptures to transform the relationship between communities and protect coral reefs. https://www.countingcoral.com/ Catch the Green Team Academy Facebook Page or YouTube Channel. Listen to the podcasts later at www.greenteamacademy.com/podcasts and wherever you listen to podcasts. Support the Green Team Academy Podcast Become a member on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/greenteamacademy Register for the Dec 13 - 17 Impact Summit Meet the featured challengers from the 2020 International Climate Action Challenge and find out how you can make a big eco-impact fast! https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/summit  

97: Protecting Carol Reefs with Art and Science

Are you ready to become an Eco-Leader? If so, then you're in the right place! Join Joan Gregerson, author, coach and eco-nut! Discover how to get together, make a difference and feel better by starting and growing a green team or eco-club in your community. You'll be informed and inspired with tips, strategies, movie reviews, book reviews and success stories. We'll also focus on developing the emotional and spiritual strength to do this important work. Now is the time to take action because there is no Planet B! For more resources, visit www.GreenTeamAcademy.com

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