Its Easy Being Green (Caroline Howell) on The Intentional Parent

Episode 7

Episode Synopsis

This week Caroline Howell, founder of GreenBeanie, joins Greg and Tina to discuss green living. The team learn practical things they can do conserve the environment, stay healthier, and save money. Each pulls from his and her experience with their own children around the topics of recycling, packaging, cleaning supplies, and responsibility on the part of both child and parent. Caroline gives insight into ways to teach your children the value of going green.
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Guest Bio

Caroline Howell is a Green Home & Lifestyle Consultant, whose business, GreenBeanie™ Inc. is headquartered in Pasadena, CA. Caroline founded her company to formalize the advice she was sharing with friends and family about “green living” including habits and routines that are better for your health, the health of those around you and the planet. The mission of GreenBeanie™ is to help make it easy for families to practice and promote personal and environmental health; this is done through personalized consultations and Green Action Plans. Over the past year, Caroline has been Jillian Michael’s green guru, helping her implement changes around her home that promote greener and healthier living.
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Episode Breakdown

00:18 Introduction: Caroline Howell
01:15 Tell us about GreenBeanie?
04:40 Caroline talks about air quality in your home.
07:10 The team talk about household products and alternatives.
14:50 What is off gassing?
20:17 How can we get our kids involved with this process?
25:30 What are waste free lunches?
31:25 Is it time to grow our own vegetables?
34:55 How can we conserve water?
40:00 Greg discusses conservancies and opportunities in the community to get involved and brings up climate change.
47:30 Tina describes how an intentional parent can teach their children these values.
50:20 Wrap up and what to expect next week?
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Dr. Tina Payne Bryson is a lecturer, a parenting consultant, and a therapist at pediatric & adolescent psychology associates. She speaks to groups all across the country and writes for numerous venues, most recently the pbs series “this emotional life.” her book, co-authored with dr. Dan Siegel, is called the whole-brain child: 12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child’s developing mind. She’s a mom to three school-aged boys.

Greg is a former Microsoft executive and father of a five year old boy. He is a three time Iron man ® triathlete, master gardener and activist parent. Greg enjoys marathon running, surfing and spending time with his wife, Peggi and their son Lincoln.

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