C23-11. Cynthia Tina on Finding Community Living

March 13, 2023March 14, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Eco solutions and Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Cynthia Tina, on air from March 14th

Meet Cynthia, the “community matchmaker,” who will show you how you can find a home within an intentional community for more connection, support, and purpose. There are a wide variety of intentional communities out there— ecovillages, agrihoods, cohousing, land trusts, tiny house villages, and more. They come in a range of sizes, styles, and levels of sharing, so it’s possible to find a community that fits your values and lifestyle… without having to build one from scratch. Join this inspiring and practical conversation to re-think the role of community in your life.

My passion is helping people learn about intentional communities and join the one that’s right for them.

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Cynthia is the founder of CommunityFinders and the original “community matchmaker.” Over the past decade, she has visited and worked with hundreds of communities around the world, including the ecovillage where she lives in her self-built passive solar home.

Formerly the co-director, she is now a spokesperson and educator with the Foundation for Intentional Community. She’s also the founder of Ecovillage Tours and a former trustee of the Global Ecovillage Network. She holds a degree in Sustainability from Goddard College and certificates in Permaculture, ecovillage Design, and Yoga Teacher Training.

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ECO22-18 Lisa D. Foster is the ‘Bag Lady,’

May 2, 2022May 26, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Lisa D. Foster, on air from May 3rd

Lisa D. Foster: is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and author of ‘Bag Lady,’ who took the germ of a green living idea and grew it into a national business phenomenon. When she realized that Americans were throwing away a billion bags a day, Lisa D. Foster discovered reusable bags. Over the next twelve years, she changed the way Americans shopped. She remained true to her original purpose to reduce plastic waste and beat the odds to create a thriving company with an environmental mission.

Recounting my experience as a purpose-driven entrepreneur, my story provides a blueprint for using entrepreneurship to make the world better.

I’m very excited to announce that my book, Bag Lady: How I Started a Business for a Greener World and Changed the Way America Shops, released on Earth Day, April 22, 2022.

Those of you who have known me for a while may remember me in my previous career as a leading supplier of reusable bags in the US. If you have known me a really long time, you might even remember me as the high school English teacher I once was.

About a year ago, during the lockdown in the middle of the winter of Covid, I sat down to write about becoming obsessed with reducing plastic waste and transforming myself into the Bag Lady, an entrepreneur on a mission to get Americans to adopt reusable bags. Last fall, I found Tim Ward, publisher of Changemakers Books for John Hunt Publishing, who recognized the value of my story for other people that want to make a difference in their communities.

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When I first learned about reusable shopping bags in 2005, the US was throwing away a billion plastic bags a day. The impacts of all those bags on our environment and our taxes kept me up at night. It hit my moral center. Getting other people to switch to reusable bags became for me, a moral imperative. I believed that if American shoppers knew what I knew, they would switch to reusable bags too. So, I did what any good English teacher would do. I took the facts about bags and turned them into a story. Then I took the story and turned it into the basis for starting a business for a greener world.

When I started, I had no idea how to build a business. I was an English teacher making cold calls overlooking the faculty parking lot. Very quickly, I found myself building an international supply chain and managing major accounts. I had to overcome the naysayers, an insanely steep learning curve, and my own mistakes. Ultimately, I beat the odds and created a thriving company with an environmental mission.

Now, I’m sharing the lessons I learned to inspire others to do the same.

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ECO21-47 HOW TO REDUCE WASTE. Stephanie Miller.

November 22, 2021November 16, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Stephanie Miller, on air from November 22nd

Five “Key” tips towards keeping the amount of waste down during Thanksgiving
What is the 80-20 rule to avoid plastic and food waste?
What are easy and affordable things we can all do now to help our planet?
How can we recycle better?
How do festivities like Thanksgiving offer us the opportunity to deal with food waste?

Having spent my career looking for solutions to climate challenges at a macro level, I began to question what could be done at the individual level. I wondered how I could have more of an impact, or perhaps less of an impact (!) by reducing my personal carbon and waste footprint. The questions I began to look at were: What can we– as individuals– do to reverse the current climate and waste crises? Could individual actions have a ripple effect that could lead to systemic change? If so, how could busy people make the necessary changes?

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This led to my own personal experiment to see how I could create a zero waste lifestyle. I researched exhaustively, talked with prominent waste and plastics specialists, visited recycling facilities in my region, presented ideas and recommendations in my local community, and began advising others on how they could implement simple but important changes.

What I concluded from my research and my engagement in the community is that you don’t have to do everything under the sun to make a huge difference. My journey led me to the simplicity of the 80/20 rule. By focusing on those things (the 20%) that can make the biggest (80%) difference, every individual can make a real and sustainable impact. And I’m convinced that, collectively—through our daily actions and consumer choices—we can create cleaner air, cleaner oceans and mitigate climate change.

Author of Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person’s Guide To A Lighter Footprint, Stephanie J. Miller, has been a key changemaker in the fight to reclaim our own ability to help cut down on waste. In her book, she provides the average busy person tips on lowering the amount of plastic garbage in our lives.

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Stephanie believes we all can make a few relatively easy lifestyle changes and create a significant positive impact by using the simplicity of the 80/20 rule, which she follows personally. She has done a lot of research to understand what actions would make the most significant difference and be easy to incorporate into a busy lifestyle and settled on three areas that she calls the Magic Three: food, plastics, and recycling. Stephanie tries to help busy people get to 80% zero waste with minimal effort through her book.

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ECO21-06 Patrick Moore, Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom

February 8, 2021February 8, 2021Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Patrick Moore, on air from February 9th

Dr. Patrick Moore, is the author of the book Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom, with 11 chapters exposing the many environmental scare stories repeated daily in the media. Dr. Moore was a co-founder of Greenpeace and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the CO2 Coalition. Here is Dr. Patrick Moore’s description of his unique thesis as presented in Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom.”It dawned on me one day that most of the scare stories in the media today are based on things that are invisible, like CO2 and radiation, or very remote, like polar bears and coral reefs. Thus, the average person cannot observe and verify the truth of these claims for themselves. They must rely on activists, the media, politicians, and scientists – all of whom have a huge financial and/or political interest in the subject – to tell them the truth. This is my effort, after 50 years as a scientist and environmental activist, to expose the misinformation and outright lies used to scare us and our children about the future of the Earth. Direct observation is the very basis of science. Without verified observation, it is not possible to know the truth.

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That is the sharp focus of this book.”The book contains 98 color photographs, illustrations, and charts. A key target audience is parents who do not approve of the “progressive” school curriculum and its alarmism about the future of civilization and the natural world.

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Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for more than 40 years. He is a co-founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns, Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction while Greenpeace became the world’s largest environmental activist organization.

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ECO20-48 Connect to your Power Source with Alison Goldwyn

November 23, 2020February 4, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Alison Goldwyn, on air from November 24th

Generating Soul-our Power for a Brighter World

Climate Change has brought us to our knees …
Changing the Emotional Climate can bring us to our senses …
Alison Goldwyn is a multi-talented “Climate Alchemist” and Founder & Creative Director of an epic future televisionary event called Synchronistory®.

During a tense pre-election COVID atmosphere, Alison recently co-produced The Fuji Declaration’s Source of Wonder online event, featuring numerous esteemed international Voices for Change and heaping doses of TLC.
In addition to her creative skills in music, writing, design, and marketing, she is the Founder & Creative Director of a unique global brand indirectly linked to Sync which tangibly illuminates our forgotten love story between Nature & Human Nature with conscious jewels for a precious world: J’aimestones® fine art jewelry.
Alison believes that the gaping hole in our global whole is due, in part, to a disconnect from Soul – and that Civilisation’s healthy maturation hinges on rekindling this timeless connection.
The greatest threat to Humankind is a lack of Humankind(ness). It’s also our greatest immune boost. Let’s spread That virally … and restore Humanity insanity with Sync’s future event(uality)!

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She has been party planning for nearly 34 years on behalf of this music-propelled, interstellar “B’earthday Party” for the Planet celebrating Every living being – broadcast live worldwide!
Affiliated with Al Gore / The Climate Reality Project, two times Nobel Nominee Ervin Laszlo / The Club of Budapest, and John Bunzl’s (apolitical) global governance platform Simpol (Simultaneous Policy), Alison hopes to shift perceptions about the world around us vis a vis the world within us.
Education through enlightened entertainment becomes the bedrock for edutainment, with Synchronistory’s out-of-this-world event that couples The Wisdom of the Ancients and The Wizardry of Technology. Sync re-writes our timeworn storyline with an uplifting new one starring Every Living Being, musically vivifying our forgotten love story between Nature & Human Nature … and our relationship to the Greater.

As our Earthly world is upended with escalating crises and the worldwide Aerospace Industry ventures into Outer Space Exploration, Sync’s dazzling companion ride through Inner Space Exploration opens our eyes; helping a world of 8 billion earthly stars get Spaced Out & Tuned In with a spellbinding Cosmic show that takes us where few Humans have dared to go: Within.

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