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S6E19 Ethan and Desmond Hua Build HOPE for School Uniform Reuse
Most school uniforms are retired while they are still perfectly wearable. Children cycle through them on a predictable annual schedule as they grow, which sends a steady stream of usable clothing…
S6E18 The Institute of Food Technologists' Brendan Niemira on Why Food Science Is Climate Science
About a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the food system, but the public conversation about food and climate keeps getting stuck at the two ends of the chain — what farmers grow…
S6E17 SiYE Interview - Trex Makes Circularity Work
Less than 2% of Americans can put plastic film in their curbside recycling bin, according to The Recycling Partnership. Meanwhile, the country generates millions of pounds of bags, pallet wrap,…
S6E16 Sustainability In Your Ear: EarthRating's Martin Johnston On Making Sustainability Claims Creditable
A traditional sustainability certification can take six to eight weeks and thousands of dollars in consultancy fees, and still leave purchasers wondering whether the claims actually hold up. Martin…
S6E15 Emerald Packaging CEO Kevin Kelly Delivers Recycled Produce Packaging
Americans throw away nearly 5 million tons of film and flexible plastic packaging every year, and less than 1% of it gets recycled, according to The Recycling Partnership. The salad bag, the potato…
S6E14 Sustainability In Your Ear: Zena Harris Brings a Green Spark to Hollywood
An average big-budget movie creates about 3,370 metric tons of CO₂, according to the Sustainable Production Alliance's 2021 report. That’s like driving over 700 gas-powered cars for a year, or about…
S6E13 Author Michael Maniates on Why Green Shopping Isn't Enough
In 2024, the global market for eco-labeled products crossed $500 billion. Electric vehicles, bamboo toothbrushes, compostable packaging — the shelves are full of ways to shop your way to a better…
S6E12 Don Carli On Tuning What We See Online To Reduce eCommerce Returns
$850 billion. That's what retail and e-commerce returns will cost in 2026, generating 8.4 billion pounds of landfill waste — and a surprising share of it involves products that worked perfectly. They…
S6E11 Sustainability In Your Ear: Schneider Electric's Steve Wilhite Maps the Renewable Energy Transition
The global energy system is changing in two big ways: it is moving from centralized fossil-fuel generation to distributed renewables, and it is becoming more digital in how energy is measured,…
S6E10 Sustainability In Your Ear: Jasper Steinhausen on Making Sustainability Profitable
Most business leaders believe sustainability costs money. They’re wrong. The proof is sitting right under their noses, bleeding out quietly as waste, excess heat, and byproducts every day the factory…
S6E9 Sustainability In Your Ear: The XPRIZE Wildfire Competition Heats Up
Every wildfire starts small. The problem is that by the time most are detected, minutes have already passed and, under increasingly common conditions driven by a warming climate, a fire can grow…
S6E8 The MooBlue Team Keeps The Beef, Without The Burp
Cattle are one of the most consequential climate problems hiding in plain sight on the dinner table. Livestock are responsible for roughly 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the…
S6E7 The Forest Stewardship Councils' Path to a Circular Bio-based Future with Loa Dalgaard Worm
Forests are vital for people everywhere. They cover about 4.14 billion hectares, roughly a third of the world’s land, and store 714 gigatons of carbon. They also support 80% of land-based…
S6E6 The Net Zero Accelerator's Colin Mangham on Nature's Rules for Building A Sustainable Infrastructure
We already have the technology to decarbonize buildings, and many pilot projects have shown it works. So why hasn’t progress toward net zero moved faster? Colin Mangham believes it’s because we’re…
S6E5 CurbWaste's Mike Marmo Is Building the Waste Logistics Layer of the Circular Economy
The U.S. waste management industry moves more than 290 million tons of municipal solid waste each year. This is a potential trillion-dollar market, but much of the work still relies on paper tickets,…
S6E4 The Ocean Conservancy's Dr. Erin Murphy Documents the Lethality of Ocean Plastics
Each year, over 11 million metric tons of plastic end up in the ocean, which is like dumping a garbage truck full of plastic every minute. For years, we’ve known that marine animals eat this debris,…
S6E3 Milwaukee's Kevin Shafer on Circular Thinking in Wastewater Management
Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode.Every gallon of wastewater flowing through a municipal sewer contains recoverable energy, nutrients, and water—assets that the…
S6E2 Peter Fusaro's Wall Street Green Summit Explores Financing The Renewables Transition
Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode.'Global investment in the energy transition reached $2.2 trillion in 2025, up 5% from the previous year despite political…
S6E1 Turning Waste Into New Products And Packaging With Overlay Capital's Elizabeth Blankenship-Singh
Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts.What we call waste is really just misallocated feedstock—raw materials waiting to be cycled back into the next generation of…
S5E42 Dandelion Energy CEO Dan Yates On How Geothermal Leasing Could Transform Home Heating and Cooling
Read a transcript of this interview.Amazingly, the same Congressional bill that gutted residential clean energy tax credits also led to a major breakthrough in financing home geothermal systems. Dan…
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