In this Tiny Climate Challenge episode, we learn to create environmental and social impact with our Guest Expert Taylor Leigh Cannizarro. She inspires all of us to turn humanity's greatest threats into humanity's greatest opportunities through her work with Plastic Bank and invites us all to make our own impact in the world by joining her “Impact with Taylor” challenge.

Guest Challenger Bio

Meet Taylor Leigh Cannizzaro, Chief Alliance Officer at Plastic Bank, an economic development firm monetizing plastic waste to provide an opportunity for the impoverished to collect and trade plastic as a currency. Her visionary leadership skills and the ability to develop exponential relationships further Plastic Bank’s initiatives to empower a regenerative society that stops ocean plastic and alleviates poverty.

 Taylor’s passion to create a world that works developed over a career as a molecular-oncology scientist driving better diagnostics and treatment via new testing and company launches. As a certified yoga instructor and health coach who learned marketing and sales, she then built the influencer program at Neurohacker Collective. With her years of leadership and communication training, she is empowering people to actualize the environmental and social impact they’ve been dreaming of. She believes it's “kairos time” to protect the planet and its inhabitants. 

She is a surfer, yoga connoisseur, an avid student of transformational learning, and avant-garde for the oceans.

Links Mentioned

• Impact with Taylor
• Plastic Bank
• Plastic Bank Plastic Footprint Calculator
• David Katz TED Talk: The Surprising Solution to Ocean Plastic
• Plastic Bank -The Great Big Story: Turning Plastic Trash Into Cash in Haiti video 
• Plastic Bank CNN Article: We're throwing away a fortune in plastic every year. This company is cleaning up
• Surfrider Foundation Rise Above Plastics
• Surfrider Foundation Ocean Friendly Restaurants
• Climate Reality Project
• Henkel 
• Tree Sisters Podcast

Tiny Climate Challenge Guest Contact

Facebook: @impactwithtaylor

Instagram: @impactwithtaylor

Twitter: @ImpactwithTLC

LinkedIn: Taylor Leigh Cannizzaro

Email: [email protected]

Contact Mayela Manasjan

TinyClimate.com

We are grateful for the generosity of Ashley Mazanec and her permission to use "Possible" from her album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" available on iTunes or Bandcamp. Ashley is an Eco Musician, and the co-founder of Let's Talk About The Weather podcast at EcoArts Foundation.