Everyday Rockstar, Diets and the Environment, Ocean Loss, Fighting for Forests, Climate Change, Enjoying the Environment, Animal Shelters, Marital Finance, Home Before Dark

Everyday Rockstar (0:00:00) Lisa and Richie feature this week’s Everyday Rockstar. We want to feature you! You can nominate yourself or someone you love by emailing thelisashow@byu.edu with “Everyday Rockstar” in the subject line. How our Diets Affect the Environment (0:04:31) We Americans can sometimes be wasteful with our food. According to the USDA, it’s been estimated that we waste about 40% of our national food supply every year, which equals out to about 133 billion pounds of food. You may be thinking, so what if some of my food goes to waste? I eat most of it! But it can have some serious environmental impacts. Joining us today is Kathryn Kellogg, founder of lifestyle website Going Zero Waste, to discuss how we can be more eco-friendly in our food consumption. Turning the Tide on Ocean Loss (0:14:10) One place has recently become home to over five trillion pieces of plastic, but it’s not a recycling plant, or even a landfill. It’s the ocean. Our oceans hold some of our most valuable resources, and yet, each year they get a little closer to destruction due to pollution, overfishing, and the extinction of marine life. It’s hard to feel like you’re able to make a difference when you’re just one person and the ocean is thousands of miles wide and thousands of feet deep. So we invited Cristina Mittermeier, a conservation photographer, often featured on National Geographic, and one of the founders of SeaLegacy. She joins us to share her insights into how we can help save our oceans. Fighting for Forests (0:26:19) The rate of deforestation is shocking—we’re losing approximately 27 soccer fields of forest per minute, which adds up to 18.7 MILLION acres of forested land lost each year. I feel like the importance of our planet’s forests is something we all kinda get, but it’s a hard concept for me to fully wrap my brain around. This is an important discussion for us to have, because if we don’t truly understand a problem that’s this big, why would we feel motivated to help? To help, we’ve invited Kerry Cesare