Living Green Podcast
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Effortless Ecology for Everyday People
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Become an effortless ecologist with Meredith Medland, conservation expert and master host of LivingGreen. Feeling guilty about your greenness? Heard about “An Inconvenient Truth”? Want to drive your SUV and lower your impact on global warming? This show digs into the psychology of ecology and the myriad new ideas that will help you balance your greenhouse effect without significant personal trade-offs. Each week, Meredith will interview ordinary, yet extraordinary guests who believe that their personal practices will save our planet. Be engaged in a healthy and honest debate about how worthwhile a sustainable lifestyle really is. You’ll learn what motivates these eco-savvy people and find out why their belief structure is something you may want to consider. Hear practical how-to advice on socially-responsible investing, green stocks, composting, recycled and organic products and foods, eco-tourism, green building, energy-efficient appliances and Energy-Star home products, alternative healthcare, clean, renewable and solar energy, carbon credits, Hybrid cars and more. Get guilt-releasing tips for managing over-consumption and step-by-step instructions from people who are walking the walk into the 21st century. Al Gore will be so proud! Brought to you by Personal Life Media.
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LG 039: Mandalas - Emerald Installations Teaches How to Create Sacred Natural Art - Live from Lightning in a Bottle
Author: Meredith Medland Tue, Jul 08, 2008
Recorded live from Lighting in a Bottle, this episode features the sacred art collective, Emerald Installations of Berkley, California. Learn about the history of the sacred mandala, how you can create nature based artwork at home and why regular summer festival attendees anticipate the creation of these mandalas to enhancement ritual, prayer and community play.
You'll get a sense of the various spiritual traditions which feature mandalas as spiritual teaching tools which establish sacred spaces to enhance meditation. The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self," and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality. This is a short and sweet episode that completes the 4-part series recorded live from Santa Barbara at the Lighting in a Bottle Festival.
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LG 038: Project-Peace on Earth and the "Peace has Begun" Bus Tour - Transforming Global Consciousness through Music - Recorded live at Lightning in a Bottle
Author: Meredith Medland Wed, Jun 11, 2008
Peace Has Begun and The Living Green Show is part of it! Tune into this live broadcast from the the bright pink, double decker bus positioned for peace at Lightning in Bottle. Learn how this exciting project was created and why people all over the United States are asking the question, "How are you creating peace in your life?"
Project—Peace on Earth is a globally-telecast, Live Aid-like event featuring Superstar musicians performing Sacred music from the world’s most mystical concert venues, to reach over 2 billion people, to raise awareness, to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to address pressing issues affecting children worldwide. While the scope of Project—Peace on Earth is ambitious, at the same time, it is clearly doable. Learn how Executive Director, Steve Robertson and his team are spearheading this daring idea to transform global consciousness through sacred sound all across the planet.
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LG 037: The Do Lab makes Financial Sacrifices to get greener at Lightning in a Bottle - a 3-Day Green Music Festival
Author: Meredith Medland Mon, Jun 02, 2008
Jedi Wright, Assistant Director of Sustainability and Shena Turlington, Environmental Director for Lightning in a Bottle share the top three lessons learned while producing a 3-Day Green Music Festival at Live Oaks Park in Santa Barbara, California. Learn how you can integrate green into anything you do, why this festival has become an evolutionary ground for important information exchange and why this open source community is making financial sacrifices to get greener.
Get ready to push your boundaries and learn how you can express your creative energy at next year's Lightning in a Bottle by getting prepared in advance. Eavesdrop on this inspiring "backstage" conversation about 2012, biodiesel, alternative transportation ideas and most importantly, get some insight on big plans for next year right from The Do Lab Environmental Team.
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LG 036: Primo Water Bottles - A New "No Crude Oil" Choice for Thirsty Drinkers
Author: Meredith Medland Wed, May 14, 2008
Going "green" is often signified by the transition from plastic water bottles and paper coffee cups to stainless steel bottles and reusable coffee mugs. In this episode, you'll learn about a new option for bottled water drinkers that features bottle made from plants, as opposed to crude oil. Even if you're not a bottled water drinker, it's imperative that you listen to this episode and educate yourself on the bottled water choices that are available for your bottle drinking friends, co-workers and corporate event planners.
Dave Burke, the COO of Primo To Go, offers a window into his personal life story as well as offers a "no" pitch interview that will leave you understanding why conventional PET bottles use limited and depleting reserves of oil and natural gas as their feedstock source. Learn why Ingeo™ emits less carbon dioxide and why it uses renewable resources as a feedstock. This episode offers a solution for water bottles drinkers, opportunities for large scale bottled water carriers and perhaps an opportunity for you to bring PRIMO water into your home, workplace or next community event.
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LG 035: Finding Community: EcoVillages and Intentional Community with Diana Leafe Christian
Author: Meredith Medland Tue, May 06, 2008
Interested in Community Living? Diana Leafe Christian, former editor of "Communities" magazine, published by Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) helps define and deepen the types of questions as well resources you need to guide you to your optimal community living research project and perhaps, new living situation!
You'll learn more about the launch of her new online Ecovillage newsletter, Ecovillages as well as get an overview her first book on Finding Community. In this episode you will learn the distinctions between Ecovillages, cohousing neighborhoods, rural homesteading communities, spiritual communities and Christian communities. Diana shares her insights, resources and over 25 years of community experience in this 24 minute episode filled with the information you need to determine the values, locations and work opportunities that are important to you and available in communities all over the world. 
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LG 034: Children's Eco-Album, with "HugTrees.org" guy - Tom Freund - recorded live at the Living Green Community Center
Author: Meredith Medland Mon, Apr 28, 2008
Recorded with a live audience from the Living Green Community Center, Tom Freund, the "Hug Trees" guy shares his inspiration and motivation for writing his new Children's music album with Living Green Host, Meredith Medland. Learn more about Tom's relationship to God and Mother Nature, what martial art form motivated him to spend more time being still and how his daughter, Delilah and his wife, Francie fuel his passion for singing, family and enjoying the outdoors.
You'll hear about Tom's "adult" music albums, how he met Ben Harper and why Ben is producing his next album. You'll want to join in the audience applause as Tom candidly answers deep questions, strums fun melodies and wraps up the show with his latest "adult" single.
Guest artists on “HugTrees” include the ever-amazing Victoria Williams,
who adds her beautiful voice and childlike playfulness
to "Seashells." Rising star Brett Dennen pulls double
duty by penning and singing on the rowdy "Party in
the Yard" and the lovely and talented Abra Moore brightens up "Apple From The Tree." Go to www.hugtrees.org to learn more.
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LG 033: Your Eco-Community Questionaire - Duane Light
Author: Meredith Medland Mon, Apr 14, 2008
Duane Light, a holistic attorney and eco-community consultant, gives you access to the questions that need to be addressed when considering developing or participating in an eco-community. You’ll hear about Duane’s unique, spiritually-based approach to law as well as why written agreements create foundation for good communication, relationship, commitment, clarity in eco-projects.
You'll learn how to evoke your highest spiritual values, while dealing with your eco-issues and how to ground your visions in reality. Attached to this podcast is Duane's community questionnaire to empower you to deepen your focus and consider what is most important to your future.
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LG 032: Peak Oil : Participate in “The New Game for Humanity”
Author: Meredith Medland Mon, Mar 31, 2008
André Angelantoni, founder, Inspiring Green Leadership, hosts the free, bi-weekly Peak Oil, Climate Change and Business Online Executive Briefing, which educates businesses and individuals on the coming oil shock and how they can prepare for it.
In this episode Andre explains what peak oil is, how to educate yourself so you can take a position on this issue and how you can prepare for peak oil at an individual, family and community level. We discuss the emotional changes by discussing the 5-stage grief process as well as Andre’s personal experience with ecological awakening.
Learn about the “New Game for Humanity” and the four types of players involved in this new game. Access and learn what your role is in our changing world.
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LG 031: Envision 2050 – National Eco-Literacy and Urban Living with Stacey Frost, founder, Urban Re:Vision
Author: Meredith MedAuthor: land Mon, Mar 17, 2008
Stacey Frost, founder of Urban Re:Vision, launches national eco-literacy campaign, Envision 2050 with enthusiasm and inspiration. Learn how students are creating posters that represent the way see their world in the year 2050. With such partners as the Natural World Museum, The Earth Day Network, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak and eco-activist Van Jones, the program is a bridge and a new content for the younger generation.
Stacey extends this bridge in the second portion of this intimate interview by sharing about her spiritual life, her beliefs and how she imagines what can be. You’ll understand how urban dwellers can create a different kind of community, why environmentalists like Paul Hawken are supporting the paradigm change in the urban living experience.
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LG 030: Creating Sustainable Communities with Brian Weller
Author: Meredith Medland Sun, Feb 17, 2008
Meet Brian Weller, co-founder of WELL, Willits Economic Localization, a rural community in Northern California moving off the grid. Think monk, businessman, artist and psychologist who knows not to take himself too seriously.
Learn how to enter into community contracts such as land purchases for eco-communities and listen to a 4-point system for building a sustainable community. Meredith Medland, your host and founder of 3outcomes.com, asks usually insightful questions that reveal strategies to help you navigate the deeper level of intimacies required for sustaining community.
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LG 029: Sprout-About.com: Local CSA Owner, Frinee Warren’s Tasty Success
Author: Meredith Medland Wed, Feb 06, 2008
During one of the last times Frinee cooked as a personal chef, a friend saw her
kitchen table full of beautiful, locally grown organic produce and said, "If you can get more of that I'd love to buy some from you." Creative juices swirling she researched the possibility of delivering organic veggies and found the opportunity to deliver locally grown produce to the Santa Barbara and Ventura area.
In this episode you’ll hear Frinee’s success story, how she got started and why participating in a local CSA is a very important part of living a conscious life today. Meredith Medland, your host, is also a CSA subscriber of Sprout-about.com and shares what it is like to interact with Frinee on a weekly basis and get close to the farmer through her personal deliveries.
You’ll learn how to improve your diet and health, bring your family together over the dinner table and you’ll be inspired by Frinee’s desire to enhance the lives of the people around her through food and her spiritual practice.
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LG 028: “The Transition Generation: Finding our Way Forward in the 21st Century” with Shane Metcalf
Author: Meredith Medland Mon, Jan 28, 2008
Shane Metcalf, an inspirational 23 year old at the forefront of the intersecting youth and sustainability movements, opens the door to more education with a review of his recent thesis,: “The Transition Generation: Finding our Way Forward in the 21st Century.” He demonstrates how educating generation Y about the world they are soon to inherit and the challenges and opportunities it presents is one of the most critical undertakings for the transition to a sustainable world.
We’ll talk about the overlap between orgasm and ecology as well as the role that every day spiritual practices play in members of the youth culture who are ready to take on the toughest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.
You’ll learn about the personal journey that led Shane to become a passionate champion for a new breed of environmentalists who believe that high technology, capitalism and human ingenuity can work together to create a bright green future.
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LG 027: Biomimicry: Janine Benyus is Honored by TIME – part 2
Author: Meredith Medland Thu, Dec 27, 2007
Janine Benyus, honored as one of TIME International's Heroes of the Environment for her innovative work in biomimicry discusses why treating nature as model and mentor will change your daily life.
In part two of this two part series you’ll learn about the Biomimicry Guild and Biomimicry Institute in Montana. Janine shares about educational courses Costa and Peru that are designed to teach individual how to apply biomimicry to sustainable architecture and design. To illustrate the history and theory of biomimicry she discusses case studies from her book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.
This is a very personal interview that is evocative, sensitive and warm. You’ll enjoy listening to her the whole way through as she calls in from her home in Montana. You’ll be surprised how sustainability challenges are being addressed with bio-inspired solutions.
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LG 026: Biomimicry: Janine Benyus is Honored by TIME
Author: Meredith Medland Thu, Dec 20, 2007
Janine Benyus, honored as one of TIME International's Heroes of the Environment for her innovative work in biomimicry is joined by Al Gore, David Attenborough, Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert Redford, George Schaller, Amory Lovins, and others in bringing extraordinary change to the world.
In part one of this two part series, Janine talks about receiving the phone call from TIME magazine, why biomimicry allows us to see how nature’s best ideas are evolving the human spirit and some deep and soulful suggestions on how you can evolve your spirit.
Be prepared for a very intimate conversation that is unlike any interview Janine has ever done with the press. You’ll hear new stories, new questions and amazing insights that will forever shift the way you experience nature.
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LG 025: Anna Lappe: Climate Change at the End of Your Fork
Author: Meredith Medland Mon, Dec 17, 2007
Anna Lappe, author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and the national bestselling, Hope’s Edge talks about the impact of food and farming on climate change.
In this show, you’ll learn about the climate crisis on the end of your fork. This episode leaves you with 3 outcomes – You’ll understand the connection between your food and the climate crisis, you’ll feel empowered to make choices about your health and diet and be prepared to “go beyond your plate” to make boarder social change in the area of food and health .
Learn about CSA’s (Community Supported Agriculture) and many other tips about how you can support climate-friendly farming. Your soul will be fed and nourished as you learn how Anna’s defines hope, where she finds hope within the environmental and health crisis conversation and how biotechnology and biofuels impact us.
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LG 024: New Green Family – Home schooling, Web commuting & Martial Artistry! with Sean Daily
Author: Meredith Medland Sat, Dec 08, 2007
Sean Daily, the host of Green Talk and CEO of Green Living Ideas tells us how he made the switch from the technology and publishing industry, to working from home, home schooling his children and teaching martial arts at his home based school.
If you're looking for the next step in creating more intimacy with your family, home schooling options for your children and making a living doing what you love, this is the show for you!
Listen to stories that inspire you and your family to take to live a greener lifestyle, consider the challenges facing parents today in educating children and how families can incorporate a spiritual practice into their lifestyle.
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LG 023: Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage in a World Gone Mad with Frances Moore Lappé
Author: Meredith Medland Wed, Nov 21, 2007
Frances Moore Lappé, discusses her latest book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage in a World Gone Mad as well Diet for a Small Planet. Frances became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award and revered for her vision and ability to help others heal our planet.
Learn how "Clean Elections" create everyday Superheros and how you can use cultivate political power to bring more green to the mainstream. Take notes on how you can recognize a living democracy while being inspired by creative stories.
Shift your fear into "Internal Applause" while listening to Frances engage you in personal stories, such as her experience with Al Gore at "Inconvenient Truth" and much more.
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LG 022: Soul-Full Eating with Maureen Whitehouse
Author: Meredith Medland Tue, Nov 06, 2007
This show is about the LOVE OF FOOD that anyone--no matter what your faith, religion or personal philosophy--can follow. Become more aware of simple, yet dynamic changes you can make in the way you select, prepare and eat food that increase your vibrancy and personal energy.
Learn how to deepen your spiritual connection on a daily basis and how to approach edge eating programs such as Raw Foods, Macrobiotics, Ayurveda, Acid/Alkaline Balancing, Food Combining and the "new" Kosher. You will discover even more "how-to" ways to more lovingly connect with your Spirit and to the planet any time you consume food...even eating a chocolate bar!
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LG 021: Wiggly Wigglers: The Digital Farmer & The Spiritual Practice of Urban Composting with Heather Gorringe
Author: Meredith Medland Tue, Oct 30, 2007
Meet Heather Gorringe, founder of Wiggly Wigglers, an ecogardening company with a ÂŁ2.5m turnover who has produced weekly podcasts gardening and farming how-to podcasts from her 14 person Lower Blakemere Farm since 2005.
In this episode, Heather brings the old "how-to’s" of the simple farm life into the hands of the urban professional by discussing the spiritual practice of composting and the benefits that social media brings to farmers. Think "Sharper Image catalogs" and Amish Farming mixed with an Apple Store Expert.
You’ll learn about Bokashi Buckets, an urban answer to composting, the environmental impact of sending flowers and how this UK Digital Farm and Catalog Garden Company lives with their hands in the soil as well as on the keyboard.
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LG 020: Live from Burning Man: Mushrooms Clouds, The American Dream and Our Dependence on Oil
Author: Meredith Medland Tue, Oct 23, 2007
Is our nation waking up? Will oil be the catalyst? Will there be one unifying power over the planet and everyone fighting against it? Or, Will everyone work in harmony?
Challenge your beliefs and your actions by listening to provocative questions addressing our personal and ecological sustainability, the safety of burning man and our nations bowing to oil riggers as "God".
An LA couple questions the message and meaning of a 1000 ft. Mushroom cloud during Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada in this live interview. Ben Clayton, Production Coordinator for GLiving TV, and his wife, Christine share the emotional intensity of their experiences, their desire to make sense of "Crude Awakening" and question the decline of the "American Dream" with a direct and deep discussion about the political and social implications of our dependence on oil.
You'll be reminded how meditation, deep conversations with family and friends about the possibility of "Peak Oil," and festivals like Burning Man create opportunities for global citizens get reconnected and identify what is important and how to contribute in a way that brings hope to the future of our planet.
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LG 019: Flames, Fireworks, Worship and Oil: Live, On the Scene Reporting
Author: Meredith Medland Tue, Oct 09, 2007
Feel the Explosion at Crude Awakening? The Tallest structure ever built at Burning Man produced the tallest fire ever seen at the event as well -- a 1,000-foot column of flame, primed by 900 gallons of jet fuel and fed by 2,000 gallons of liquid propane.
Get in the scenes, literally, with live interviews behind the water truck, around the fire and in the midst of the fireworks. The mic goes right in front of Dan Das Mann and 8 other individuals who bring an intense opinions to the burning of this wooden oil derrick and the surrounding eight metal sculptured human figures worshipping and dramatizing the dependence modern man has toward oil.
If you haven't been to burning man this is the closest you'll ever get to the intimacy, intensity and fire that fuels this counter-culture event.
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LG 018: EcoWisdom Part 2: A Brief Overview of Episodes 9-16 - the Summer in Review
Author: Meredith Medland Fri, Sep 28, 2007
Meredith guides you to the episodes that will most appeal to you. Each Living Green episode is a little different - this one will help you get familiar with the great guests that Meredith has interviewed this summer and learn more about what in store for the fall season!
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LG 017: EcoWisdom Part 1: A Brief Overview of Episodes 1-8 - a Guide through the Series
Author: Meredith Medland Wed, Sep 12, 2007
Meredith takes you on a short description of each episode, a few highlights and what she loved and learned about her guests. If you’re looking for a quick overview so that you can download more great episodes, take a listen to this quick segment to be sure get some of the greatest green content.
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LG 016: "America the Green" Podcast Show Hosts: The Role of Independent Media in the Green Movement with Carolyn Parrs and Irv Weinberg
Author: Meredith Medland Thu, Aug 09, 2007
What happens when three podcasters get together and talk green, independent media and give you the inside scoop on what drives them in interviews...listen to this episode and find out! You'll learn how decisions are made in the indepedant media space -- what makes good guests - what questions bring out the best stories and the path that Carolyn and Irv walked to get out of mainstream marketing and media and into the world of independent media.
We'll talk about the impact of RFID chips on the children of the future, the importance of getting outside and some of the great guests that have contribued to the "American the Green" podcast. Learn about Paul Hawken and his guest appearance as well as the eco-savvy parenting that creates peace in these podcasts home!
You'll love this open and deep dialoge about intimacy, the future of the planet and the importance of Living Green.
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LG 015: Ideal Bite co-founder, Jen Boulden talks Green Sex Lube, National Television and Horse "Yoga"
Author: Meredith Medland Tue, Jul 31, 2007
Ideal Bite, co-founder Jen Boulden tells us how horse "yoga" helped her build an 11 person email marketing organization which sends out "light green" tips to over 130,000 subscribers each week. Learn about how she overcame obstacles to keep the business alive by balancing "no's" from vc's with her unwaivering passion and commitment. Get the inside scoop on the "last minute - save the business" call which culminated in a full page feature in the Green Issue of Vanity Fair. Wonder how you can go from green sex lube to Martha Stewart show? Listen to this episode and her the juicy details about her first live interview experience on the Today Show.
You'll "fall down the stairs" with Jen when you learn why she was carrying 2 dufflebags on the New York subway each week in order to "save the planet" and why seeing "tweety" birds all around her head got her motivated to start a new business. This is a sassy, sexy and solid business woman who shares her passion of organic farming, horse "yoga" and daily "light green" inspiration in a friendly and buddhalike way on this week's episode of Living Green.
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LG 014: Entrepreneurship - The Spiritual Path of Ecology through the lens of Money with Brent Kessel
Author: Meredith Medland Fri, Jul 20, 2007
Brent Kessel, author of "It's Not About the Money, offers advise, exercises and new viewpoints for the eco-savy entrepreneur ready to merge spirit and sustainability. In the Part Two Segment, you'll learn how to measure your financial wellness levels, get a dose of inspiration and hear about Troy Lush's, "Now is the Time" - a new inspirational song which may just be the next "We are the World."
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LG 013: Money and the Eco-Archetypes: “Living Green” – A How To Story with Brent Kessel
Author: Meredith Medland Fri, Jul 13, 2007
Brent Kessel, a financial soul retriever, defines Eight Financial Archetypes. Learn how your relationship to money is a key component of your inner ecology. Listen in to a healthy debate about the barters, trades and lack of money exchanges in the green movement. Brent offers solutions for eco-entrapratuers and ambassors of the growing green for an increase in financial resources for those pursing their wildest dreams.
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LG 012: Get to Know Meredith Medland, Host of Living Green
Author: Meredith Medland Wed, Jun 27, 2007
Meredith Medland, Green Reporter is into Hapkido, sustainable living and interviewing amazing people – and we're sharing it with you! Living Green listeners now have the opportunity to meet Meredith in person and get a taste of what is to come – more video coverage on Living Green!
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