GoodPower’s Leah Qusba on Selling Clean Energy as Pocketbook Power
In 2024, 91% of new large-scale renewable projects around the world made electricity for less money than any fossil-fuel option, according t...
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20 of 559 episodesSustainability In Your Ear: Shareholder Democracy and Causeway Impact Founders on Building Shareholder Influence
If you hold a 401(k), an IRA, or a single index fund, you own a sliver of hundreds of American companies, yet you almost certainly let someo...
Kendra MacDonald Steers to the Blue Economy at Canada's Ocean Supercluster
The ocean produces about half the oxygen we breathe, absorbs roughly 30% of the carbon dioxide we emit, and takes up about 90% of the excess...
Urban Surfer's Sifiso Gumbi on Organizing South Africa's Recycling System
In South Africa, informal waste pickers recover between 80% and 90% of all plastic and paper that actually gets recycled. There are about 14...
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 th...
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 getti...
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 coun...
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 purchas...
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 , accordi...
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...
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 — th...
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 surprisi...
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...
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...
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 c...
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 1...
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...
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...
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...
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. F...