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Viable Future: Improving Accessibility to Sustainability - with Emily Eckert,GoViably

Published: Nov. 29, 2021, 10 a.m.

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Quantum Quote:\\xa0\\u201cWe are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2013 Elon Musk

As we get more individually committed to making our homes and this planet a healthier and more sustainable place to live in, slowly, we\\u2019re starting to make the transition that we need in the first quarters of 2021.

Over 88% of all new electricity generation in the United States came from the construction of new solar, wind, and other renewable energy power plants. That 88% is because clean energy technologies tap into the forces of nature, and now provide the lowest total cost of ownership!

However, as we continue to pursue the positive impact we\\u2019ve been making these past few months, we also have to realize that despite everything, our efforts are just not enough.

Did you know that according to scientists\\u2019 calculations, the amount of greenhouse gases we\\u2019ve got in the environment now has the same impact every day as though we\\u2019re exploding 500,000 nuclear weapons every day, 365 days a year? That\\u2019s how much energy is being captured in the atmosphere from the greenhouse gases we\\u2019ve all created!

There\\u2019s no room for failure. We need to increase our impact now.

There are people and companies who are getting better at their game of greenwashing. We don\\u2019t want to spend our hard-earned money on products that aren\\u2019t actually produced in a sustainable manner.

Join us as we interview Emily Eckert, the CEO of GoViably.

Emily Eckert\\xa0is a woman with a vision. With a degree in Global Economies, Human Rights, and the Environment, she was made to lead\\xa0GoViably.com. As the Founder and CEO, Emily brings a lifetime of environmental passion and commitment to the role. She also brings empathy, sensitivity, determination, and authenticity \\u2013 traits born from her experiences as an adoptee, woman, and person of colour. The obstacles she has overcome have equipped her to face challenges and thrive. She became the leader of a company poised to transform business in ways that will help save this planet.

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SuperNova #1.\\xa0There is a lot of rebates and incentives that are out there to help both businesses and residential customers, and I don\\u2019t think they\\u2019re looking at them. More utilities are getting on that bandwagon. More utilities might be having some requirement to offer something like that. So if your heating system dies at home, reach out and find out if your utility has any support.

SuperNova #2.\\xa0We need to have more conversations about this. It\\u2019s in the news all the time, but there\\u2019s no comparison to having a genuine conversation with somebody that you know and learning about their perspective and sharing yours and saying how you can support each other. We\\u2019ve reached this point where there\\u2019s a lot of independent living and thinking, but in the end, we\\u2019re one society and one planet \\u2013 our home. We\\u2019re all in this planet together. Let\\u2019s work altogether and support each other. Instead of saying \\u201cshame on you for not doing this or that\\u201d, we need to say \\u201cI understand that that\\u2019s how you\\u2019ve been taught, but have you ever thought about these ideas?\\u201d Giving suggestions and general conversations are really important.

SuperNova #3.\\xa0Every one of us has an impact. It\\u2019s up to us whether that impact is negative or positive. Oftentimes, we don\\u2019t think about the impacts that we don\\u2019t see. Let\\u2019s think beyond what we can see even though it seems like our decisions and actions don\\u2019t make a difference; they really do, because people are observing what we\\u2019re doing all the time. They may not tell us and we may not know, but just when you don\\u2019t think somebody\\u2019s paying attention, somebody\\u2019s paying attention. Whether it\\u2019s friends, family, co-workers, they don\\u2019t need to say they\\u2019re paying attention, but they\\u2019re seeing your actions \\u2013 they\\u2019re seeing what you\\u2019re doing.

Aha Moment:\\xa0\\u201cI was about 17 years old. At the time, I lived in Mystic Connecticut and I worked in an aquarium as an exhibit educator. Although I\\u2019m not a huge fan of those types of institutions now, for me, it made a positive impact education-wise. I remember, as an exhibit educator, I would have my preset spiel about whatever animal that I was talking about to the visitors, and then this particular day, I was talking about the beluga whales. We have three beluga whales there. I remember finishing that spiel and then thinking to myself, so I\\u2019m standing here talking about the conservation of animals, but then I go home and I eat them. And that was my light bulb moment. If I love animals so much, why am I eating them? And after that, I started doing more research about the industry in general, which then also sparked research about climate change and carbon and off I went from there.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2013 Emily Eckert

Best Advice She\\u2019s Ever Received:\\xa0\\u201cKeep smiling.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2013 Emily Eckert

Personal Habit that Contributes to Success:\\xa0\\u201cRoutines. I have a nightly routine because sleep is really important to me. I like to be clear headed and I\\u2019m not if I don\\u2019t get enough sleep. So sleep and a nightly routine is a habit that I believe keeps me going.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2013 Emily Eckert

Internet Resource:\\xa0National Geographic

Book Recommendation:\\xa0Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Magic Wand:\\xa0\\u201cLess fear. There\\u2019s a connection between the lack of cooperation and fear. The more fearful people are, the less likely they are to cooperate. And so if we have less fear and more love, I think that we would cooperate together and drive these solutions and these actions together more.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2013 Emily Eckert

WTF or F:\\xa0\\u201cI\\u2019ll pick the first one, although I did not personally experience it at the time, but I experienced the after effects. My dad lives in Massachusetts, and this must have been about 10 years ago. They had a tornado go through their town. Luckily, my father lived on the outside of town when the tornado went right through the town, and at one point, my boyfriend and I went to help volunteer to clean up some of the homes because there were some homes that were just levelled and I had never experienced seeing that devastation firsthand until that point. I didn\\u2019t even have words to describe it. There was one woman that came in \\u2013 we were going to help start clearing out the debris \\u2013 and she didn\\u2019t want us to touch anything. This was within a few days of it happening. So you could still see and it was palpable that she was still in shock. There was still a lack of full grasp of what had happened and just not even wanting anything to be touched because she\\u2019s still processing what\\u2019s happened. And we\\u2019re seeing \\u2013 we as in the world \\u2013 is seeing more extreme weather patterns these days. Saw hurricanes and tornadoes. We still see in specific pockets, but we see them more often. There\\u2019s more often than I will see a tornado warning in the New England area. But still, that devastation is, I mean a flood can cause that same devastation where you just can\\u2019t rebuild the house that you already had there. You need to start completely from scratch. You can\\u2019t renovate it. So to me, that was my experience of this is what nature is really capable of.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2013 Emily Eckert

Most Energized About Today: \\u201cI\\u2019m most energized that it was actually sunny. We\\u2019re in November and it\\u2019s sunny and beautiful.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2013 Emily Eckert

Next Step:\\xa0\\u201cWe\\u2019re continuing to create a scoring system for our sustainability certification. But actually, what\\u2019s very exciting and I\\u2019d like to share it today is that we are going to be posting a one-day sustainability event \\u2013 The Viable Future Event \\u2013 on March 3, which is a Thursday and it will be a virtual event, but the goal there will be that every attendee or participant will walk away with concrete action steps. So we have talking about getting away from green washing and showing that transparency and helping people realize what tools and resources are out there. I invite everybody to keep an eye on our website\\xa0https://www.goviably.com\\xa0and we will be announcing more about the events. But I\\u2019m very excited because I want to make it a fun, engaging event. I know people are tired of these Zoom workshops where somebody talks at them for an hour, so we\\u2019re going to strategize and make it much more engaging instead of having the speakers talk for 60 minutes while everybody else is off their videos and sleeping.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2013 Emily Eckert

Parting Advice:\\xa0\\u201cDon\\u2019t be afraid to try something new. Instead, be grateful that we actually live in a time where most of us \\u2013 at least in our country \\u2013 have the ability to try something new and have something new to even try in the first place.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2013 Emily Eckert

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