From Drunk Dude to Dude Making a Difference with Rob Greenfield

Aired Thursday, 7 December 2017, 7:00 PM ET

Bamboo Bikes, Dumpster Dives, and cashless adventures – from Drunk
Dude to Dude Making a Difference with Rob Greenfield

Bamboo bikes, dumpster dives, and cashless adventures across the
world – life isn’t necessarily easy when you’re on a mission to
inspire people to live in a manner that’s beneficial to Earth, our
communities and ourselves. But Rob Greenfield gave up “easy” when,
at the age of 24, he started paying attention to the environmental
and social issues of his generation and learned that he was
contributing to many of these problems on a daily basis through the
food he was eating, the car he was driving, and the stuff he was
buying and consuming. That’s when his transformation from a Drunk
Dude to a Dude who’s dedicating his life to Making a
Difference.

From cycling across the USA on a bamboo bicycle for sustainability
to foraging in grocery store dumpsters to traveling across the USA
sans credit cards and cash, Rob Greenfield’s extreme adventures,
activism campaigns, TedX Talks, and TV series bringing awareness to
important environmental and social issues have not only caught the
attention of the world’s media, but also inspired positive changes
in countless people over the last 6 years to be the change we all
wish to see in the world.

Rob Greenfield joins Sandie this week to share his inspiring
journey and reveal how, with just a few simple positive changes,
you too can become part of the solution to our current
environmental and social problems.

About the Guest: Rob Greenfield

ROB GREENFIELD is an adventurer, environmental activist, and
humanitarian who is dedicated to leading the way to a more
sustainable and just world. His adventures and his life have caught
the attention of the world and he has been featured on thousands of
media outlets including the BBC, CBS This Morning, Discovery
Channel, USA Today, LA Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post, and
TEDx.

Rob is creator of The Food Waste Fiasco Campaign, which strives to
end food waste and hunger in the U.S., Rob has dove into more than
two thousand dumpsters across the USA to demonstrate how nearly
half of all food in the U.S. is wasted while 50 million (1 in 7)
Americans are food insecure, and has cycled across the U.S. twice
on a bamboo bicycle promoting his message of sustainability and
earth-friendly living. His first bike ride across the U.S. is also
now a book, Dude Making a Difference.

In 2016 he landed in Rio, Brazil without a penny in his pocket on a
mission to travel to Panama, 7,000 miles and 7 countries away,
relying on the goodness of humanity. This adventure is a
six-episode series called Free Ride on Discovery Channel playing
worldwide. His travels have taken him to 6 continents and 40
countries.

Website: www.robgreenfield.tv