19: Environmental Law (with Dr. Dianne Saxe)

Lisa Shen44min

Farida Rahman

00:05

Hello, and welcome back to so you gotta lifesite agree. We're your hosts for Rita and Lisa to lifestyle undergrad students turn and navigate our future careers. This is Episode 19. And we're talking to Dr. Diane Sachs about being an environmental lawyer and advocate. How are you doing today? Lisa? I am doing okay. I'm a little too underslept for interviewing someone like Dr. Sachs, but it is Oh, okay. I do have an interesting night yesterday, though. So as of this recording day, I am moving into my new apartment in Hamilton in a week from now. And so I've been starting to do all my packing, I ordered some stuff from IKEA a week or two ago. And you know, like I came in like various boxes, and one of the boxes contain a bunch of dishes. And like it said, like fragile on the box and everything right. And so it was kind of weird. Like the dishes were kind of wrapped in like this. Like I've never seen wrapping paper like it. The best way I can describe it is it's kind of a mix between a honeycomb and wrapping.

Lisa Shen

01:05

It was weird. Um, but yeah, like it seemed to be effective at the cushioning. And so I was like, Okay, I'm not gonna unwrap these individual dishes just because I think I could just bring this whole thing as is right. But then last night, I was like, okay, maybe I should open it and check to just make sure everything's there and that nothing's broken. And good thing. I did that because the top several dishes were okay. Yeah. And then as I got to the middle, like, I purchased this one pot for a plant that I'm getting from some friends and the saucer of the pot was broken. And as well this other bowl had like a chip on it. And then the very bottom of it. I think the two large plates that I ordered completely broke. I couldn't even take them out to take a photo because I took a photo of some of the other stuff because you know, I wanted to like send it to be like, hey, this happen. Yeah, so that happened and so I'll probably get a refund of a bit and then I'll just It's okay, I kind of need to go again. Anyway. So yeah, but yeah, so like the funny story that came out of this was that because like the pot only the saucer broke. The pot is in great condition. And, and the friends that I'm getting this, this plant from who is Apulia plant, if you don't know that, look it up. It's also called the pancake plant. It's it's very cute. I like

Farida Rahman

02:17

that, okay, but like, I know that like people make jokes about like, talking to plants, like they're sentient, but this plant has just has character.

Dianne Saxe

02:26

I don't know, man,

Farida Rahman

02:27

I just, I'm excited. Anyway, so I'm planning on calling her Leah Apulia. You know, it's something that I've been thinking about for, you know, months and months. And so yeah, so I have these two friends who have a bunch of philia plans, because, you know, the thing about plants is that they're good at reproducing. And so they're giving me one of their little pups. And so I was like, in exchange, do you want this pot? Because it's a saucer? Cuz like, if they're gonna refund me the pot, they'll refund me the whole pot, right? That's it comes in. It sounds like oh, I might as well just give you this pot. So that's what that's what's happening. They given me a plant. I'm giving them a pot. It's all gonna work out. Yeah. When you were talking about your honeycomb packaging. It was like wait, hexagons are the best. I don't think they're actually it's actually hexagonal, though. Oh, well, then what on earth makes it honeycomb if it's not hexagonal? Sorry. It's like it's just like the it's kind of got like a repeating pattern to it. It looks honeycomb like actual hexagons. Yeah. Interesting. Well,

Farida Rahman

03:29

but I mean, I don't know.

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