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Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: Star's Tech Hando Choi On Inventing A Low-Carbon, Low-Chloride De-Icer Made From Star Fish

Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: Star's Tech Hando Choi On Inventing A Low-Carbon, Low-Chloride De-Icer Made From Star Fish

How do you solve a multi-billion dollar infrastructure and vehicle corrosion problem—and launch a skincare product line—using an invasive starfish that is typically thrown back into the sea by fishing fleets? Star's Tech found a use for every part of a creature that does damage to Korean shellfish farms.

Nov 24, 2025

Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: LiquiDonate Founder Disney Petit Redirects eCommerce Returns to Non-Profits and Schools

Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: LiquiDonate Founder Disney Petit Redirects eCommerce Returns to Non-Profits and Schools

What if the solution to the retail industry's $890 billion returns crisis wasn't better logistics, but better logic? Disney Petit, founder and CEO of Liquidonate, is proving that the most sustainable return skips the trip back to a warehouse and goes directly to a community in need.

Nov 17, 2025

Otters Passing Through and a Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: Luke Purdy, Wieden+Kennedy's Director of Sustainability, on Advertising's Power To Change

Otters Passing Through and a Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: Luke Purdy, Wieden+Kennedy's Director of Sustainability, on Advertising's Power To Change

It's otter time at Elk Creek. Tune into a discussion about whether the industry that taught the world to consume can help us learn to do it more responsibly.

Nov 10, 2025

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres

Can a forestry software and infrastructure company inspired by the open source software movement spur enough tree planting to reforest an area larger than the United States by 2050?

Nov 3, 2025

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: The Climate Action Network's Pre-COP30 Briefing with Rebecca Thissen

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: The Climate Action Network's Pre-COP30 Briefing with Rebecca Thissen

Ten years after the Paris Agreement, the world's climate negotiators will gather in Belém, Brazil, this November for COP 30, a summit many are calling a critical juncture for global climate action.

Oct 27, 2025

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A project of Mitch Ratcliffe and the team that brought you Earth911, this site is a record of what we learn living on the banks of Elk Creek in Southern Oregon. Enjoy commentary, photos and videos, and our ideas and recommendations about how to live lightly on the land to restore a healthy relationship with nature.

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