How to Make Sustainable Living Sustainable

Let Your Values Do The Driving

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We’re really excited to release this episode featuring Kate Gaertner, a leading sustainability expert and consultant with 25 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience. Kate is also a personal carbon footprint evangelist on a mission to help individuals align their priorities with their values to create positive change.
 
The level of her involvement in the forefront of women’s business, sustainable fashion and reforming manufacturing toward zero waste make her a real thought leader and we’re lucky to have her here. Kate has held digital marketing management positions at XM Satellite Radio, Ziff Davis Media, and Time Inc.; worked as a strategic consultant to Fortune 500 companies developing go-to-market business cases; founded a sustainable women’s active wear lifestyle brand, OMALA; and was an Adjunct Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.). She serves as the Board Chair of XXcelerate, a business-accelerator and fund for women led businesses; and is a technical advisor to the Loopt Foundation, a global-reach non-profit progressing pre- and post-consumer material zero waste goals within manufacturing.

​Kate is the author of the book, Planting a Seed: 3 Simple Steps to Sustainable Living. It is packed with actionable sustainability tips AND a template for prioritizing those tips and actions in a way that matches who you are and what you value.

​The website (www.kategaertner.com) is this incredibly useful and generous portal into personal sustainability. I found Kate because someone in my twitter feed forwarded Kate’s sustainability quiz which helped me see where my efforts were strong and where they could be stronger. Kategaetner.com also contains links to worksheets that you can use to make clear and closely customized action plans to reduce your carbon footprint and make your life better.
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Music Credits: 
“Colorado-Slinkies” by trout recording“
Everyone-Everywhere” by_Jayme_Stone

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SHOW NOTES: 
​Key Takeaways: 

•  Align your sustainability strategy with your personal values to make your changes easier and more sustainable
• The four different values drivers
  • Penny Pinching
  • Personal Healthy and Well-being
  • Building Community
  • Preserving Natural Diversity
• The Seven Areas to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
  • Transportation
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Home and Property
  • Material Goods
  • Water
  • Waste

​Connect with Kate

• Kate Gaertner’s Website 
• Kate’s Book Plant a Seed 
• Sustainable Living Resources
  • SustainAbility Quiz
  • Values and Impact Worksheets
• Her Social Media
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter 
  • Instagram

Sustainable living resources: 

• Imperfect Foods
• Find a Farmer’s Market near you!
• Eileen Fisher RENEW 
• Patagonia Worn Wear
• Arcadia Power - Switch to renewable energy

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