Kathy Ramirez-Aguilar, PhD, green labs pioneer and the 2023 recipient of My Green Lab's Out of the Box Award Medal, shares her journey from starting a green labs program at CU Boulder in 2009 to her groundbreaking work in lab sustainability today. Kathy also speaks to where the green labs movement is going and to what we need to do as a community to support the future of green labs.

One of those things is to join the Million Advocates for Sustainable Science. If you've not signed the letter, now's your chance!

https://www.sustainablescienceadvocates.org

How do we improve the financial sustainability of non-profits so that they can continue to do their essential work? Bernie Youngblood - entrepreneur, marketing executive, and former My Green Lab board member - shares his vision for non-profits, for-profits, and artists to come together in service of the greater good.

Gus Kendrick, Project Coordinator at SMS Collaborative, talks ACT audits, his penchant for chatting about sustainability in bars, and the overlap between his love of music and sustainability. Our conversation was rooted in ACT and quickly found its way to the philosophy of sustainability and behavior change as we discussed how to engage people in sustainability in the most unlikely places.