{"id":589335,"date":"2010-04-22T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T19:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-23-gerod-rody-out-for-sustainability-nature-gay-earth-day-40-people\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T19:02:32","slug":"gerod-rody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/589335","title":{"rendered":"Gerod Rody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Grist.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gerod Rody<\/p>\n<p>Founder, Out for Sustainability<br \/> Seattle, Wash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gerod.info\/Gerod.html\" title=\"Gerod Rod\">Gerod Rody<\/a>, 29, felt a disconnect between his life as a gay man and his work in the sustainability field, so he founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outforsustainability.org\/\" title=\"Out for Sustainability\">Out for Sustainability<\/a> to bring the two together and encourage the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubletongued.org\/index.php\/dictionary\/lgbtq\/\" title=\"LGBTQ\">LGBTQ<\/a>&nbsp;community to embrace the green cause. The group is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outforsustainability.org\/Earth_Gay.html\" title=\"Earth Gay\">Earth Gay<\/a>&nbsp;events where volunteers can help on projects like&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/eqfed.org\/erw\/events\/EarthGay2010_Urban_Farming_Beacon_Hill\/details.tcl\">urban gardening<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/eqfed.org\/erw\/events\/Earth_Gay_Habitat_Restoration_West_Seattle\/details.tcl\" title=\"restore habitat\">habitat restoration<\/a>&mdash;followed, of course, by a lively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=112477695429347&amp;ref=mf\" title=\"afterparty\">afterparty<\/a>, complete with limited-edition &#8220;Nature Is So Gay&#8221; T-shirts. Rody is also the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgi.edu\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=330&amp;Itemid=67\" title=\"marketing and communications associate\">marketing and communications associate<\/a> at the sustainability-focused <a href=\"http:\/\/bgi.edu\/about-bgi.html\" title=\"Bainbridge Graduate Institute\">Bainbridge Graduate Institute<\/a>, where he earned an MBA in sustainable business, and he runs his own firm, <a href=\"http:\/\/seventh-ide.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"seventh id&eacute;\">seventh id&eacute;<\/a>, which specializes in &#8220;eco-innovative-thrifty&#8221; design consulting for events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/o4s\"  >Follow Out for Sustainability on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/earthday40\">more people who are redefining green<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p  ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-alan-salzman-vantagepoint-venture-partners-earth-day-40-people\"><strong>Next &raquo;<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/homeless-learn-to-farm-in-Santa-Cruz\/\">Homeless learn to farm in Santa Cruz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-23-breaking-through-concrete-day-1-seattle-to-talent-or\/\">Breaking Through Concrete: Day 1&#8212;Seattle to Talent, Ore.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-19-boost-support-for-urban-agriculture-with-a-rice-growing-bra\/\">Boost your support for urban agriculture with a rice-growing bra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=b548800003b43a2e9b05700843842a25&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=b548800003b43a2e9b05700843842a25&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.triggit.com\/px?u=pheedo&#038;rtv=News&#038;rtv=p29804&#038;rtv=f18590\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29804.rss.News.18590,cat.News.rss\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Grist. Gerod Rody Founder, Out for Sustainability Seattle, Wash. Gerod Rody, 29, felt a disconnect between his life as a gay man and his work in the sustainability field, so he founded Out for Sustainability to bring the two together and encourage the&nbsp;LGBTQ&nbsp;community to embrace the green cause. The group is celebrating the 40th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}