(0:41) Welcome
Welcome back to The Paleo View listeners! And boy do we have a show for you today!
This week Sarah and Stacy will be talking about sustainability
While this is a topic that Sarah and Stacy talk about often as it pertains to diet and lifestyle, today's episode will focus on two specific pieces to the puzzle
Why is sustainability so important
What can we all do in general

This episode was inspired by Earth Day and the new show Our Planet
Stacy's son Finn came home from school recently with a lot of information on what resources will soon be gone, and Stacy is excited to see that this is a conversation even happening at that level

So for this week's episode, we are going to get you listeners fired up so that you can walk away with some action items and feel inspired to talk to others about this as well
There is no motive behind this episode, other than we want this planet to be here for our children
We are going to mention a lot of different things you can do or places you can support and its because Stacy and Sarah are so very passionate about protecting the planet

One of the things that Sarah did at her workshop in February was to end the entire event with a discussion on how our dietary priorities can translate into looking after the planet
For this week's episode, Sarah looks forward to taking that conversation one step further and talking about our impact as human beings on the planet
There are a lot of small adjustments that we can make that can have a really big impact
Stacy wrote a blog post on Earth Daysharing ways in which you can not avoid damaging the environment, and ways in which you can reverse the damage as well
What can you do to give back to the Earth? What can you do to help offset your carbon footprint?
Sarah wants to note that Stacy and Sarah will be referring to net-zero carbon emissions, which means that ways in which we offset the carbon that we are putting out into the atmosphere
This carbon is put into the atmosphere through the consumption of fossil fuels in various forms
The by-product of consuming fossil fuels is the release of carbon dioxide into the air which is a greenhouse gas, which is increasing the average global temperature
This has a lot of impact on things like the ice sheets, sea levels, major weather events
This is creating a system where there is more energy in the atmosphere
Heat is energy - so if you have more heat because of the rise in the average global temperature, you have more energy to put into something like a storm
This is why we are seeing more extreme weather events

Many catastrophic events can be traced back to manmade global climate change

When preparing for this show, Sarah debated getting into some climate science
However, she decided that it is so unequivocal - there is a consensus among climatologists that the increase in the average global temperature is driven by the greenhouse gases that humans are putting into the atmosphere
It is a direct link
There are multiple lines of evidence point to an explanation


So we are just going to jump right into things we can do to achieve net zero carbon emissions
That we both reduce our carbon footprint and also look at ways that we can remove carbon from the atmosphere

We are going to hone in on real-world solutions and skip over the controversy thing because it is not a controversy


(11:12) Reducing the Carbon Foot Print
Sarah remembers that when she was in school they had the three R's - reduce, reuse and recycle and there are a ton of different strategies that fall under this banner that still apply today
A real obvious place to start is being careful about what you throw in the trash and recycling anything that is recyclable
Put a sheet on the fridge with information on what can go in your local recycle bin versus what needs to go in the trash bin

If you have access to compost services or a yard where you can have a compost bin or a compost pile, these are simple steps that can help reduce how much was