COGC’14 – Part 3: Dihan Chandra and OrganicLifestyle.com (video)

February 22nd, 2014 Stefan Hostetter and Alex Knight attended the Canadian Organic Growers Conference with Green Majority Media and had the opportunity to speak with a whole host of great people and collected some fantastic interviews. This is the next installment in a short series of interviews we conducted. In this episode, we speak with Dihan Chandra from OrganicLifestyle.com.

Dihan Chandra is the founder of Organic Lifestyle, which promotes and sells organic products for your home. From his website:

I became very conscious of the many different chemicals we expose ourselves to on a daily basis. Ask yourself – how many long term studies have been done measuring these effects? Scientific studies can only look to isolate and prove that a single variable caused these effects such as Bisphenol-A. So how can we measure this impact of a single variable when we live in homes with closed air circulation and constantly re-introducing chemicals and off-gassing VOCs in the form of stains, glues from carpet and paints and cleaning products on a weekly basis? more…

If you missed the first episode with Ingrid Cryns (of Soma Earth) and Sue Bowe McKee (of Leadership Unleashed) where we discuss their thoughts on what people can do to make themselves individually more sustainable, the definition and benefits of organic building and the transition town movement click here.

If you missed the second episode with Woody Tasch, Keynote speaker of the conference as well as the Founder and Chairman of Slow Money, you can click here.

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OCGC’14 – Part 2: Woody Tasch and Slow Money (video)

February 22nd, 2014 Stefan Hostetter and Alex Knight attended the Canadian Organic Growers Conference with Green Majority Media and had the opportunity to speak with a whole host of great people and collected some fantastic interviews. This is the next installment in a short series of interviews we conducted. In this episode, We were able to catch up with Woody Tasch, Keynote speaker of the conference as well as the Founder and Chairman of Slow Money. From their website:

Inspired by the vision of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing As If Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered, published in 2009, the Slow Money Alliance is bringing people together around a new conversation about money that is too fast, about finance that is disconnected from people and place, about how we can begin fixing our economy from the ground up… starting with food.

If you missed the first episode with Ingrid Cryns (of Soma Earth) and Sue Bowe McKee (of Leadership Unleashed) where we discuss their thoughts on what people can do to make themselves individually more sustainable, the definition and benefits of organic building and the transition town movement click here.

The Canadian Organic Growers Conference 2014: Part 1 – Earth Wisdom Living

This past Saturday, February 22nd, we attended the Canadian Organic Growers Conference with Green Majority Media and had the opportunity to speak with a whole host of great people and collected some fantastic interviews.

Over the coming weeks, we will be releasing some interviews from the conference as well as blog posts about some of the ideas that were discussed. First up, our interview with Ingrid Cryns (of Soma Earth) and Sue Bowe McKee (of Leadership Unleashed). We discuss their thoughts on what people can do to make themselves individually more sustainable, the definition and benefits of organic building and the transition town movement. Their joint project Earth Wisdom Living is focused on helping you personally plan for self sufficiency.

Check out our shortened interview here and go to Green Majority Media’s YouTube Channel for the full interview and more content: