Some great ideas about how easy it is to recycle your sneakers and all the amazing ways they are being repurposed into new materials for playgrounds, basketball courts and tracks. Also, a couple of ideas for finding sustainably made sneakers.

A very green diva episode with a short Why Should We Care piece that GD Meg recorded earlier in the week with Jessica Alba. the Sleeping Naked is Green segment was all about recycling our sneakers. Our feature interview was with Rachel Kaplan, author of Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. GREAT information and lots of it!

We were inspired by a February entry in the book that stated, “Write poetry in haiku form only.” We couldn’t exactly figure out why that was green, but we decided to find and share a couple of our favorite poems about nature. We read three of them in this short segment.

A special show with too many headliners! For our Why Should We Care campaign, we talked to the beautiful Sarah Stavrou, and the ever-green wonderful Ed Begley, Jr. Both had such wonderful things to say. Then, as if that wasn’t enough fun, we had a feature interview with the very busy EcoKaren about her work with EcoEtsy, GreenLivingIdeas.com her gig with Marth Stewart and some new fun for her team with Practically Green!

An exceptionally full show with the start of our Why Should We Care campaign. Three of our regular guests, John Voelcker, Kari Whitman and Cherie Corso all called in and talked about what they are passionate about when it comes to sustainability and why we should care AND what we can do about it! We also interviewed Dr. Dan Wharton, Senior Vice President of Conservation Science, Chicago Zoological Society, who has made some awesome observations about animal behavior in terms of relationships and how we might learn from them.

This is always an interesting topic. But, we found so many wonderful resources to help make a healthy, green goodbye and leave this planet with a little less of a carbon footprint in the end.